A Herbal of Iraq
Edited by experts at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with botanists in Iraq, A Herbal of Iraq describes 50 plants and their uses in traditional herbal medicine in the region.
Editors: Shahina A. Ghazanfar and Chris J. Thorogood. 160 pp. 60 colour botanical paintings. 215 x 160 mm. Hardback, ISBN 978 1 84246 763 3, Kew Publishing, 2022.
Plant-based medicine has always played an important role in people’s daily lives in Iraq, a country with a particularly rich and diverse flora, owing to its diverse habitats of deserts, plains and mountains. The inspiration for this book was the work of the late Iraqi herbalist, Abdul Jaleel Ibrahim Al-Quragheely, who documented the country’s flora and its uses in ethnobotanical medicine. He opened a local practice in 1990 and dispensed herbal medicines for six years when communities were most in need.
Edited by experts at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with botanists in Iraq, A Herbal of Iraq describes 50 plants and their uses in traditional herbal medicine in the region. In addition to the wealth of information it contains, this dual language English-Arabic herbal is richly illustrated throughout with archival and contemporary botanical art and is an object of beauty.
Shahina A. Ghazanfar is an expert on the flora and vegetation, conservation, and plants of economic importance of the Middle East and has published extensively on these subjects. She is a senior botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and is a co-editor of Flora of Tropical East Africa (Kew Publishing), author of the Flora of Oman (Belgium Botanic Garden Publishing) and is currently author and editor of Flora of Iraq (Kew Publishing). She is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and is recipient of the Linnean Medal (Botany) 2021.
Chris J. Thorogood is Deputy Director and Head of Science of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum. His research focusses on the evolution, conservation, and the biomimetic applications of plants. Chris is a wildlife artist, botanical illustrator, and an international best-selling author of specialist field guides and popular titles including Weird Plants (Kew Publishing, 2018), Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Western Mediterranean, 2nd edition (Kew Publishing, 2021), and Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Eastern Mediterranean (Kew Publishing, 2019).
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