The selection of nineteenth-century Arabic texts on medical education, medicine and health demonstrates the significant link between the revival of the Arabic language and literary culture of the nineteenth century, known as the nahda, and the introduction of medical education to the Ottoman Empire. These include doctor Ibrahim al-Najjar's autobiographical account of his studies in Cairo (1855), an article by doctor Amin Abi Khatir advising on the health and care of infants (1877), questions and answers in the major popular Arabic journals al-Hilal and al-Muqtataf (1877–1901) and an article about a new tuberculosis treatment by doctor Anisa Sayba‘a (1903). Taken together they contribute to our understanding of the bottom-up production, reproduction and reception of global scientific knowledge, as well as to a social and intellectual history of science. We argue that the engagement with science during the nahda was a multi-vocal and dialogical process, in which doctors and patients, journal editors and their readers, negotiated the implications of scientific knowledge for their own lives and their own society. The texts of the original documents and their translations can be found in the supplementary material tab at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087422000413.

19 世纪关于医学教育、医学和健康的阿拉伯文本的选择证明了 19 世纪阿拉伯语和文学文化的复兴（被称为nahda）与医学教育引入奥斯曼帝国之间的重要联系。其中包括 Ibrahim al-Najjar 医生关于他在开罗学习的自传记述（1855 年）、Amin Abi Khatir 医生就婴儿的健康和护理提供建议的文章（1877 年）、主要流行的阿拉伯语期刊al-Hilal和穆克塔塔夫(1877–1901) 和 Anisa Sayba'a 医生（1903 年）发表的一篇关于新结核病治疗的文章。它们共同有助于我们理解全球科学知识的自下而上的生产、复制和接受，以及科学的社会和思想史。我们认为，在nahda期间与科学的接触是一个多声部和对话的过程，在这个过程中，医生和患者、期刊编辑和他们的读者协商科学知识对他们自己的生活和他们自己的社会的影响。原始文件的文本及其翻译可以在 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087422000413 的补充材料选项卡中找到。