Objects from the Islamic world with Christian iconography: A 13th century pyxis depicting ecclesiastic and saints; the entry into Jerusalem with Christ riding a donkey; and the Virgin and Child (Syria or Northern Iraq, @metmuseum). Description and interpretation of the pyxis and others of its kind: see metmuseum.org/art/collection…; R.A. Katzenstein and G.D. Lowry," Christian Themes," archnet.org/publications/4…; E.R. Hoffman, "Christian-Islamic Encounters," jstor.org/stable/25067100.

Finally, for bloodletting in literature: See Julia Bray, "Third and Fourth Century Bleeding Poetry," Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 2 (1999): 75-92; the 47th maqāma of al-Ḥarīrī. "Although the Prophet is said to have favored the practice, cupping itself is often described as a dirty business." (M. Cooperson, Impostures, intro. to maqāma #47).

A variation on a theme that is usually known in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman literatures (Yosef Ben Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi) On the Arabic topos of moles, see @khosh_adam, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?; and his "Woven Together as Though Randomly Strung: Variation in Collections of Naevi Poetry...," that is available here:
mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_XVII_2013_…

T-S 16.287: This letter was published by E. Ashtor, History of the Jews in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks, 3:101-105 (Heb.); the date was corrected by S.D. Goitein to 1208 C.E., i.e. preceding the Mamluk period.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-000…
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https://twitter.com/GenizaLab/status/1411745708974084101

Line 24: "Now (it pains me to say) he is like a stone [or: he is a stone of the grave?]": This phrase, אבן דומה, is understood by Goitein as a reference to biblical יורדי דומה, "dead people" (Ps. 115:17).

(Goitein, p. 72,
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https://twitter.com/GenizaLab/status/1411745711360659459

Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'a refers to cataract surgeries in the biography of Sadīd al-Dīn ibn Raqīqa (d. 1238), a court physician and an expert in the "art of ophthalmology and surgery, and in treating diseases of the eye, performing many surgical operations."
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Sadīd al-Dīn removed cataracts from the eyes of patients, using an instrument that "was hollow and curved, so that during the operation, the fluid could be more efficiently extracted, with the result that the treatment was more effective."

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"I'll sing of an ancient and excellent battle
devised long ago, by thinking men,
waged on a board along eight rows—
with each then split into eight positions...
A man who sees them there arrayed
might think that they were Christians and Moors."
(Abraham ibn Ezra, d. c. 1167) One of three poems by the Spanish polymath Abraham ibn Ezra about the game of chess (trans. Peter Cole, The Dream of the Poem, 179-181).

Thread: Dhimmī physicians, even the most distinguished ones in the Muslim state, could be physically assaulted by Muslims. A few examples: Ibn Shū'a, Saladin's Jewish doctor, lost his eye from a stone thrown at him by a Sufi faqīh (Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'a, new @Brill_ME_Africa ed.)
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A Jewish physician, this time in Yemen, was riding a fine mule and was mistaken by a Muslim jurist to be a vizier, a qadi, or a high-official. The jurist learned of the true identity of this Jew, and beat him severely with his shoe! (al-Khazrajī's al-'Uqūd al-lulu'iyya)
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