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The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna
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ASIN: 0892814381
Release Date: 1988-05-01 |
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This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna, whose writings have been classics in herbal and dietetic medicine for more than 1,000 years. Based on the philosophy that "food is the best medicine," Avicenna's canon provides simple and effective diagnostic techniques and therapies for maintaining health and strengthening the immune system.
Includes a botanical guide for the 100 most-used healing herbs and recommended treatments for 400 conditions, including diet and nutrition, herbology, and aromatherapy. </p>
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Extremely Enlightening from Medical and Historical Standpoin.......2000-12-08
This book is very good. It offers methods to help one to observe health status by observing various bodily functions. Unfortunately, I have been able get more information in this approach to medicine. There are some very healthful and tasty receipes in this book also. Imani Christi's offers a very wholistic approach to health maintenance and way of living.
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- An excellent translation of a fundamentally important work
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The Metaphysics of The Healing (Islamic Translation Series)
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Avicenna, the most influential of Islamic philosophers, produced The Healing as his magnum opus on his religious and political philosophy. Now translated by Michael Marmura, The Metaphysics is the climactic conclusion to this towering work. Through Marmura’s skill as a translator and his extensive annotations, Avicenna’s touchstone of Islamic philosophy is more accessible than ever before.
In The Metaphysics, Avicenna examines the idea of existence, and his investigation into the cause of all things leads him to a meditation on the nature of God. From this discussion, Avicenna develops a theory of divine causation that synthesizes Neoplatonic, Aristotelian, and Islamic ideas. Within this emanative scheme, Avicenna establishes some of the basic ideas of his religious and political philosophy, as he discusses the divine attributes, divine providence, the hereafter, and the ideal “virtuous” city with its philosopher-prophet as the human link between the terrestrial and heavenly realms. With this edition, The Metaphysics can now be better seen as one of the most masterful works of classical Islamic philosophy.
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An excellent translation of a fundamentally important work.......2007-01-10
Ibn Sina's philosophical insights are pivotal in the history of western philosophy and theology of both the Muslim and Christian traditions. Even as later giants in these streams of thought, such as al-Ghazali and Aquinas, took serious issue with some of Ibn Sina's views regarding the eternity of the world, and so on; it is undeniable that certain elements of his thought - e.g. on existence, essence, and modality - proved indispensible to the advanced and subtle formulations in philosophical theology advanced by his later critics. In another way of looking at it, he might have simply advanced one of the clearest philosophic-analytic articulations of those central features of the ontological relation between God and creation described poetically in the text of the monotheistic scriptures.
This fine translation of al-Shifa, by one of the world's foremost translater of classical Islamic texts - the philosophically capable Michael Marmura, who also, notably, translated al-Ghazali's Tahafut al-Falsifa - is a long awaited treasure that will hopefully widen access to the ideas of this seminal thinker in intellectual history.
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- To the idiot who thought Avicenna was black
- Canon of Medicin
- Gruner's remarks worth the price of the book.
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Canon of Medicine
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The Canon is the clear and ordered Summa of all the medical knowlege of Ibn Sina's time, augmented from his own observations. Volume 1 (of 5 volumes) translated here was the best medical textbook available in Europe in its Latin translation for 700 years. With notes from St. Thomas Aquinas who said: Anything Avicenna says is true, it presents traditional medicine at its best and is far more accessible than the works of Hippocrates and Galen.
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To the idiot who thought Avicenna was black.......2007-02-01
Fact 1: Dr. Llaila Afrika is a black supremacist who thinks God and every significant historical figure is black; despite the fact that there weren't any black people even remotely close to Persia near Bukhara in 980 CE when Avicenna was born.
Fact 2: The Canon of Medicine was the standard medical text in European universities for seven centuries.
Fact 3: Rhazes was born almost a hundred years after Avicenna died. He translated Aristotle, a medical encyclopedia into Arabic. He also compiled works of Galen and incorporated portions of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine as supplemented by his own medical contributions.
Canon of Medicin.......2006-07-10
I am just more then happy for the book "Canon of Medicin". It is realy something I wanted to have, and finely I got it. Thanks being to Amazon which made it possible to have the item which was almost impossible for me to have. I am realu grateful. The book is actualy a gift for my husband, a gift from me, but respect Avicenna and his work, which is mostly interesting to read! Canon of Medicin is an respectable and readable book, not only for medical student/doctors, but also for other people!
Gruner's remarks worth the price of the book........2006-04-30
It is hard to believe that a book, so beautifully bound, is so poorly edited for numerous common typos.
That being said, the remarks of O. Cameron Gruner are wonderfully astute as to the history and meaning behind Avincenna's Canon. He compares traditional medicines with modern medicine and its lack of philosophy with a deftness only found in yoga sutras.
In addition, the Notes section of about 150 pages adds considerable understanding to the text of Avicenna. Notes helps the reader to experience the historical context of the Canon as well as its importance in modern medicine and philosophy.
I bought this book in order to understand alternative medicines regarding my own health and well being. I received that and much more.
Good History Lesson For Westerners.......2005-11-07
This book was written over 900 years ago by a muslim man. It was the first ever book on modern medicine. This book is the one that exposed modern medicine to the then backward western world and whole world. So popular that it was published 35 times and taught in Europe for 600 years. This book is a good ever lasting proof that east ( muslims ) started modern medicine. Muslim doctors were using Hollow needles to extract cataract when their western contemporaries didnt even knew it existed. Excellent work!
Who Avicenna really was?.......2005-02-01
I was reading another book written by Dr. Llaila Afrika in which he states that Avicenna was a Black Muslim and not Persian like one of the reviewers stated. [Avicenna] "and another Muslim Black named Rhazes influenced European medicine. In fact, Rhazes wrote about a hundred medical books which utilized natural foods, herbal remedies, and diets."
I would also like to know who it was that translated The Canon of Medicine? Europeans? Wouldn't that have been asking for potential biases?
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Metaphysica of Avicenna
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"Parviz Morewedge's translation of Avicenna's Metaphysics is a significant contribution to the scholarship in Islamic philosophy…"
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The Master Seer.......2004-03-30
Ibn Sina (980-1037), or known as "Avicenna" in the Latin West, is, in my humble opinion, after having just finished reading his "The Metaphysica", the greatest of the Medieval philosophers. I've read Boethius, Erigena, Averroes, Al-Farabi, Anselm, Eckhart, Scotus, Aquinas, Ockham, De Cusa, etc., and none of them have left me with the depth and breadth of knowledge nor concepts that Ibn Sina has. He takes the reader to the summit and depths of Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy. He was an idealist and existentialist synthesized. His notion that essence and existence are exactly the same in God's absolute unity (God's infinite equality making them so) and separate in an individual man (essence being the "necessary idea" and existence being an "accidental idea") is very complex to grasp properly; but once it is grasped, you'll never let it go. You can see where Ockham got some of his understanding of first and second intentions (intuitive cognition and abstractive cognition). It's also evident to me that medieval suppositio theorists got many of their concepts from Avicenna--Duns Scotus, Aquinas, Ockham, just to name a few. Ibn Sina believed God is a being, unlike Proclus who believed God is beyond being. He differs time and again with Proclus as he does with Aristotle. He certainly has earned the title "The Philosopher of Being". There is a reason why St. Thomas Aquinas quoted Avicenna over 250 times in "The Summa Theologica" and other writings; the "The Metaphysica" will make it blatantly obvious why he did. Ibn Sina begins "The Metaphysica" by explaining the numbers of philosophical sciences, then analyses the nature of being, its application to things, and expounds on substance. He delves into the mysterious nature of substratum-matter and form--both incorporeal and corporeal--carrying those very forms from lower intellects to the highest intelligibles, directly uniting them to the Necessary Existent (i.e., God). He expounds on quality, quantity, and accidentality; the condition of universality and particularity; of unity and plurality; of priority and posteriority; of cause and effect; potentiality and actuality; and being as being necessary and being contingent. Those are just a handful of the treasures of wisdom Avicenna reveals to the eye of the speculative intellect. The book has a brief "Introduction". However, there are "Notes to the Text", which provide invaluable information on Aristotelian and Neoplatonic sources, distinctions, similarities, and so much more. At the end there is a long "The Commentary" by Parviz Morewedge, followed by "Notes to the Commentary". The book has a "Glossary" at the very back, which is helpful in understanding Persian terms. Overall Parviz Morewedge did a superlative job with this book. This single volume is essential to any quality philosophy or theology collection. It is just as relevant today as it was before or after St. Thomas Aquinas' time. If it seems a bit pricey for your budget now, you will consider it a bargain after you buy it and finish reading it. You'll come away understanding Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy with a much greater insight, as well as learning a new philosophical system by a master seer. I highly recommend this magnificent volume of esoteric wisdom.
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect
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A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First Cause; the emanation of the lower world from the transcendent active intellect; stages of human intellect; illumination of the human intellect by the transcendent active intellect; conjunction of the human intellect with the transcendent active intellect; prophecy; and human immortality. Davidson shows that medieval Jewish philosophers and the Latin Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to different periods of his philosophic career.
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This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilahiyyat (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitab al-Sifa' (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina.
The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics, al-Kindi and al-Farabi) introduces the discussion of Avicenna's reshaping of the epistemological profile of the Metaphysics in Part II (his account of the subject-matter, structure, method and role of metaphysics in the system of sciences) and the recasting of its contents in Part III.
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- A profound study of a profound mind
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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context
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An analysis of the sources and evolution of the metaphysics of Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. 1037 AD) -- known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna -- this book focuses on the answers Avicenna and his predecessors gave to two fundamental questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body? and what is God and how does He cause the world? To respond to these challenges Avicenna invented new concepts and distinctions and reinterpreted old ones. The author concludes that Avicenna's innovations are a turning point in the history of metaphysics. Avicenna's metaphysics is the culmination of one period of synthesis, during which philosophers fused together the Neoplatonic project of reconciling Plato with Aristotle, with the Peripatetic project of reconciling Aristotle with himself. Yet Avicenna also stands at the beginning of another period of synthesis, during which philosophers sought to integrate the Arabic version of the earlier synthesis with Islamic doctrinal theology (kalam). Avicenna's metaphysics significantly influenced European scholastic thought, but it had an even more profound impact on Islamic intellectual history, where the philosophical problems and opportunities associated with the Avicennian synthesis were to be debated up to the end of the 19th century.
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A profound study of a profound mind.......2003-09-28
Avicenna (a Latinised version of Ibn Sina) was born in 980 A.D. in Central Asia. He died in 1037 in Persia. A child prodigy who memorised the Koran by age 10, Ibn Sina also taught himself medicine and treated patients as a teenager.
Arguably the greatest mind of Islamic civilisation, his intellectual achievements stand out all the more when you examine the context of his prodigious output. He produced about 450 works on philosophy, medicine, psychology, to name a few areas.
Wisnovsky, an accomplished historian of philosophy and classical Arabist, has provided a precise and painstaking study of Avicenna's philosophy in context. The 'contextualism' championed by Wisnovsky, which owes a debt to the pioneering work of the philosopher of science, AI Sabra, seeks to recreate the situation and context in which Avicenna's ideas were generated. Wisnovsky has mastered a difficult topic and rendered the work of a complext mind with aplomb. He eschews reductionism (simplfying stuff)or precursorism (glorifying achievements) to produce a balanced, sympathetic but level-headed study of the work of a great Islamic and world thinker.
Wisnovsky writes well, but the subject matter is heavy-going. Not for the lay reader but certainly very useful for students of the subject, whether professional or the garden variety, like myself. I look forward to future works of Wisnovsky.
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- great and interesting
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An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines: Conceptions of Nature and Methods Used for Its Study by the Ikhwan Al-Safa, Al-Biruni, and Ibn Si
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Writing the most Islamic tradition and examines the classical Islamic cosmology and shows how Ikhwan ,al Biruni combined teaching the Quran
great and interesting.......1999-05-06
Writing the most Islamic tradition and examines the classical Islamic cosmology and shows how Ikhwan ,al Biruni combined teaching the Quran
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