الطرقية: أطباء الطريق في مصر المملوكية

Abstract EN

The paper sheds light on the (trucial/ Traditional Medicine Doctors in Egypt in the era of Mamluke Siltans), the unknown parallel medicine practiced by ordinary individuals, which is not only deals with the history of medicine, the"institutional", but it primarily deals with the medicine parallel to the official medical field known as Trucial, medicine of Road Doctors.

This research points out the following questions: What is Trucial? Where does it stand among the medical foundations and Phusicians? What qualification the Road Doctors must obtain to be well-qualified ones? What medical methodology does he adopt? How Trucial see themselves? Do they follow a scientific medical knowledge? Or they depend on tricky ways of treatment?
What is the legal attitude must be taken by the authority meant to deal with kind of tricky people? What is the best solution for judging these mass practices?