2013/01/01 by Nahyan Fancy · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · #Families in Therapy and Culture #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Order (exchange) #Content (measure theory) #Focus (optics) #Psychology #Philosophy #Sociology #Mathematics #Economics #Physics
paper · doi:10.1163/18778372-13413412
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
In this paper, I shall compare the introductory and physiological sections of two of Ibn al-Nafīs’s medical commentaries (shurūḥ), to his Mūjaz, and two commentaries on the Mūjaz, in order to arrive at a better understanding of what were considered to be the salient aspects of each genre. The paper will particularly focus on how the commentators situate their own understanding of a specific physiological issue vis-à-vis the source text, its commentaries and/or the discussions found in the works of other medical authorities on these same issues. I shall also explore how the differences between the form and content of Ibn al-Nafīs’s shurūḥ and the Mūjaz were navigated by subsequent commentators of the Mūjaz.