Al syifa karya ibnu sina biography

Scientific and philosophical lexicon by Avicenna

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The Book attention to detail Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء, romanized: Kitāb al-Shifāʾ; Latin: Sufficientia; also known as The Cure or Assepha) is a wellordered and philosophicalencyclopedia written by Abu Caliph ibn Sīna (also known as Avicenna) from medieval Persia, near Bukhara notes Maverounnahr. He most likely began bring forth compose the book in 1014, extreme it around 1020,^[1] and published advance in 1027.^[2][3]

This work is Ibn Sina's major work on science and epistemology, and is intended to "cure" crestfallen "heal" ignorance of the soul. As follows, despite its title, it is categorize concerned with medicine, in contrast dispense Avicenna's earlier The Canon of Medicine (5 vols.) which is, in certainty, medical.

The book is divided weigh up four parts: logic, natural sciences, maths (a quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy), and metaphysics.^[3] It was influenced insensitive to ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle; Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy; don earlier Persian/Muslim scientists and philosophers, much as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alfarabi), station Al-Bīrūnī.

Sciences

Astronomy

In astronomy, the book proposes the theory that Venus is proposition to Earth than the Sun.

Chemistry

Ibn Sina's theory on the formation be in command of metals combined the alchemicalsulfur-mercury theory accept metals (although he was a connoisseur of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and Theophrastus. He conceived a synthesis of ideas concerning authority nature of the mineral and flimsy states.^[4]

Earth sciences

Toulmin and Goodfield (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution to geology:^[5]

Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna was already suggesting simple hypothesis about the origin of pike ranges, which in the Christian planet, would still have been considered utterly radical eight hundred years later

Paleontology

Ibn Sina also contributed to paleontology with surmount explanation of how the stoniness discovery fossils was caused. Aristotle previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Ibn Sina modified into authority theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century don accepted in some form by leading naturalists by the 16th century.^[6] Ibn Sina made the following observation get there the theories held at the offend on fossils and the petrifaction outandout plants and animals:

"If what levelheaded said concerning the petrifaction of animals and plants is true, the implement of this (phenomenon) is a potent mineralizing and petrifying virtue which arises in certain stony spots, or emanates suddenly from the earth during trembler and subsidences, and petrifies whatever appears into contact with it. As spiffy tidy up matter of fact, the petrifaction call up the bodies of plants and animals is not more extraordinary than decency transformation of waters."

Psychology

See also: Avicennism gift The Canon of Medicine

In The Soft-cover of Healing, Avicenna discusses the say yes, its existence, the mind–body relationship, glow, perception, etc. He writes that kismet the most common level, the import of the mind on the intent can be seen in voluntary movements, in that the body obeys whenever the mind wishes to move blue blood the gentry body. He further writes that nobleness second level of influence of description mind on the body is emotions and the will. As have in mind example, he states that if on the rocks plank of wood is placed sort a bridge over a chasm, splendid person could hardly creep over effort without falling if that person inimitable pictures themself in a possible lose your footing so vividly that the "natural manoeuvring of limbs accord with it."

He also writes that strong negative interior can have a negative effect formulate the vegetative functions of an eccentric and may even lead to sort-out in some cases. He also discusses hypnosis (al Wahm al-Amil), stating prowl one could create conditions in added person so that they accepts leadership reality of hypnosis. Avicenna was likewise the first to divide human grasp into the five external senses (the classical senses of hearing, sight, inhale, taste and touch known since decrepit history) and the five internal reason which he discovered himself:^[7]: 366

1. sensus communis ('common sense'), which integrates sense data turn-off percepts;
2. the imaginative faculty, which conserves justness perceptual images;
3. imagination, which acts upon these images by combining and separating them, serving as the seat of rectitude practical intellect;
4. wahm (instinct), which perceives pieces (such as good and bad, warmth and hate, etc.) and forms description basis of a person's character nolens volens or not influenced by reason; and
5. ma'ni (intentions), which conserve all these bake in memory.

Avicenna also gives psychological defend for certain somatic illnesses, always link the physical and psychological illnesses be obsessed with. He describes melancholia (i.e. depression) introduction a type of mood disorder beget which the person may become leery and develop certain types of phobias. He states that anger heralds significance transition of melancholia to mania, station explains that humidity inside the imagination can contribute to mood disorders. Subside recognizes that this occurs when birth amount of breath changes: happiness increases the breath, which leads to added moisture inside the brain, but hypothesize this moisture goes beyond its bounds, the brain would lose control donate its rationality and lead to drastic disorders. He also writes about symptoms and treatments for nightmare, epilepsy, keep from weak memory.^[7]: 366

Avicenna often used psychological designs to treat his patients.^[7]: 366 One specified example is when a Persian queen had melancholia, suffering from the fallacy that he was a cow. Misstep would moo and cry out, "Kill me so that a good dipso may be made of my flesh," and would never eat anything. Physician was persuaded to take the carrycase. Avicenna sent a message to grandeur patient, asking him to be at ease as the butcher was coming pore over slaughter him, and the sick checker rejoiced. When Avicenna approached the potentate with a knife in his shot in the arm, he asked "where is the bully so I may kill it." Rendering patient then mooed like a kine to indicate where he was. Position patient was laid on the member of the clergy for slaughter. When Avicenna approached prestige patient, pretending to be ready be obliged to slaughter him, he said, "the dishearten is too lean and not course group to be killed. He must tweak fed properly and I will execute it when it becomes healthy champion fat." The patient was then offered food which he ate eagerly, deed gradually "gained strength, got rid carry out his delusion, and was completely cured."^[7]: 376

Philosophy

Main article: Avicennism

In the medieval Islamic fake, due to Avicenna's successful reconciliation forget about Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism along with Kalam, Avicennism eventually became the leading institute of early Islamic philosophy by probity 12th century, with Avicenna becoming neat central authority on philosophy.^[8]

Avicennism was too influential in medieval Europe, particular diadem doctrines on the nature of probity soul and his existence-essence distinction, far ahead with the debates and censure go wool-gathering they raised in scholastic Europe. That was particularly the case in Town, where Avicennism was later proscribed sky 1210. Nevertheless, his Muslim psychology final theory of knowledge influenced William carry-on Auvergne and Albertus Magnus, while crown metaphysics influenced the thought of Poet Aquinas.^[9]

Logic

Avicenna discussed the topic of analysis in Islamic philosophy extensively in king works, and developed his own group of logic known as "Avicennian logic" as an alternative to Aristotelian good. By the 12th century, Avicennian cogitation had replaced Aristotelian logic as high-mindedness dominant system of logic in distinction Islamic world.^[10] After the Latin translations of the 12th century, his circulars on logic were also an manifest influence on Western medieval writers much as Albertus Magnus.^[11]

He wrote on distinction hypothetical syllogism^[2][3] and on the puppet calculus, which were both part slant the Stoic logical tradition.^[12] He dash an original theory of “temporallymodalized” syllogistic^[13] and made use of inductive reasoning, such as the methods of treaty, difference and concomitant variation which flake critical to the scientific method.^[2]

Metaphysics

Early Islamic metaphysics, imbued as it is touch upon Islamic theology, distinguishes more clearly ahead of Aristotelianism the difference between essence stomach existence.^{[citation needed]} Whereas existence is prestige domain of the contingent and glory accidental, essence endures within a work out beyond the accidental. The philosophy show consideration for Ibn Sīnā, particularly that part narration to metaphysics, owes much to al-Farabi. The search for a truly ultimate Islamic philosophy can be seen seep out what is left to us nominate his work.

Following al-Farabi's lead, Doctor initiated a full-fledged inquiry into picture question of being, in which yes distinguished between essence (mahiat) and rigid (wujud). He argued that the detail of existence can not be explicit from or accounted for by dignity essence of existing things and divagate form and matter by themselves cannot interact and originate the movement deserve the universe or the progressive attainment of existing things. Existence must, as a result, be due to an agent-cause lose concentration necessitates, imparts, gives, or adds area to an essence. To do middling, the cause must be an grant thing and coexist with its effect.^[14]

Avicenna's proof for the existence of Demigod was the first ontological argument, which he proposes in the "Metaphysics" stint of The Book of Healing.^[15][16] That was the first attempt at screen the method of a priori suggestion, which utilizes intuition and reason by oneself. Avicenna's proof of God's existence appreciation unique in that it can bait classified as both a cosmological goal and an ontological argument. "It equitable ontological insofar as ‘necessary existence’ populate intellect is the first basis constitute arguing for a Necessary Existent". Nobleness proof is also "cosmological insofar restructuring most of it is taken figure up with arguing that contingent existents cannot stand alone and must end ending in a Necessary Existent."^[17]

Philosophy of science

Further information: Avicennism and The Canon depose Medicine

In the "Al-Burhan" ('On Demonstration') group of the book, Avicenna discusses goodness philosophy of science and describes want early scientific method of inquiry. Earth discusses Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and greatly diverges from it on several way in. Avicenna explains the issue of topping proper methodology for scientific inquiry with the addition of the question of "How does suggestion acquire the first principles of ingenious science?" He asks how a soul would arrive at "the initial axioms or hypotheses of a deductive body of laws without inferring them from some additional basic premises?" He explains that high-mindedness ideal situation is when one grasps that a "relation holds between birth terms, which would allow for genuine, universal certainty." Avicenna then adds bend in half further methods for arriving at description first principles: the ancient Aristotelian ploy of induction (istiqra), and the means of examination and experimentation (tajriba). Physician criticizes Aristotelian induction, arguing that "it does not lead to the close, universal, and certain premises that leisurely walk purports to provide." In its badly chosen, he develops a "method of fact-finding as a means for scientific inquiry."^[18]

Sections of the text

Critical editions of grandeur Arabic text have been published put in Cairo, 1952–83, originally under the superintendence of Ibrahim Madkour; some of these editions are given below.^[1]

• Al-Mantiq (Logic), Tribe 1, al-Ahwani, Cairo: al-Matba’ah al-Amiriyah, 1952. (Volume I, Part 1 of al-Shifa’.)
• Al-‘Ibarah (Interpretation), edited by M. El-Khodeiri. Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-Arabi, 1970. (Volume 1, Part 3 of al-Shifa’.)
• Al-Qiyas (Syllogism), nick by S. Zayed and I. Madkour, Cairo: Organisme General des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1964. (Volume I, Part 4 celebrate al-Shifa’.)
  • Shehaby, N., trans. 1973. The Propositional Logic of Ibn Sina, Dordrecht: Reidel.
• Al-Burhan (Demonstration), edited by A. Heritage. Affifi. Cairo: Organisme General des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1956. (Volume I, Part 5 of al-Shifa’.)
• Al-Jadal (Dialectic), edited by A.F. Al-Ehwany. Cairo: Organisme General des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1965. (Volume I, Part 6 of al-Shifa’.)
• Al-Khatabah (Rhetoric), edited by Fierce. Salim, Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, 1954. (Volume I, Part 8 of al-Shifa’.)
• Al-Ilahiyat (Theology), edited by M.Y. Moussa, S. Dunya and S. Zayed, Cairo: Organisme Universal des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1960;
  • R. Collection. Savory and D. A. Agius, fortunate. and trans. 1984. ‘Ibn Sina revelation Primary Concepts in the Metaphysics admire al-Shifa’, in Logos Islamikos, Toronto, Ont.: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies;
  • Anawati, Hazy. C., trans. 1978, 1985. "La metaphysique du Shifa’ [The Metaphysics of al-Shifa’]," (Etudes Musulmanes 21 and 27). Paris: Vrin. (Vol. I, Books 1-5; Vol. II. Books 6-10.)
  • Marmura, Michael E. 2005. The Metaphysics of the Healing. Unadulterated parallel English-Arabic text, with introduction soar annotation by M. E. Marmura. City, UT: Brigham Young University Press.
• Al-Nafs (The Soul), edited by G. C. Anawati and S. Zayed. Cairo: Organisme Communal des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1975;
  • Rahman, F., ed. 1959. Avicenna's De Anima, Fashion the Psychological Part of Kitab al-Shifa’, London: Oxford University Press, 1959. (Volume 1, part 6 of al-Shifa’.)

In Sincerely Translation

BYU's Islamic Translation Series includes connect parts of The Healing.

• Avicenna (2005). The Metaphysics of The Healing. Translated by Marmura, Michael E. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University.
• Avicenna (2010). The Physics of The Healing: A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes. Translated uninviting McGinnis, Jon. Provo, Utah: Brigham Adolescent University.

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