In Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam Housni Alkhateeb Shehada offers the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517).

Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Ph.D. (2006), Tel Aviv University, teaches Arabic, Islamic Culture and History of Art at Ben-Gurion University and Levinsky College of Education. He has published a book of poetry and several studies on veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.