{"id":16624,"date":"2025-08-04T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16624"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:56:03","slug":"a-herbal-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/a-herbal-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"A Herbal of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16625 wp-img alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1842467638.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/>\u201cA Herbal of Iraq\u201d provides brief description of 50 plants used in that country\u2019s ethnobotanical medicine.\u00a0 Shahina A. Ghazanfar, editor of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=19645\">Plants of the Qur\u2019\u0101n<\/a>\u201d, is co-editor along with Chris J. Thorogood and Rana Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Written in both English and Arabic, this book is based on the research and practices of Abdul Jaleel Ibrahim Al-Quragheely (1934-2009), an Iraqi herbalist who wrote extensively on the country\u2019s flora and its uses.\u00a0 \u201cMy work has sought to raise awareness of the work of Arabic scholars on medicinal herbs, inspired by prophetic medicine and Islamic medicine, and their importance to humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by: Brian Thompson on May 20, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Summer 2024 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Herbal of Iraq\u201d provides brief description of 50 plants used in that country\u2019s ethnobotanical medicine.\u00a0 Shahina A. Ghazanfar, editor of \u201cPlants of the Qur\u2019\u0101n\u201d, is co-editor along with Chris J. Thorogood and Rana Ibrahim. Written in both English and Arabic, this book is based on the research and practices of Abdul Jaleel Ibrahim Al-Quragheely (1934-2009), an Iraqi herbalist who wrote extensively on the country\u2019s flora and its uses.\u00a0 \u201cMy work has sought to raise awareness of the work of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/a-herbal-of-iraq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Herbal of Iraq<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[],"class_list":["post-16624","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/16624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}