Women’s medicine was a significant subfield of Arabic medicine, and most authors of medical compendia devoted parts of their work to gynecology. Learned medical discourse offered a broad perspective on women’s health, which did not only address general and reproductive health but also sexual health and satisfaction. Like all fields of science and learning in the premodern Islamic world, however, women did not author medical texts, and the intended readers were men. Women were instead prominent in the world of popular medicine, which had a wider impact on ordinary people’s lives. Women’s medical knowledge belonged to an oral tradition which encompassed local magical and pharmacological practices that only occasionally is noted by written sources.