Astrology in literature: how the prohibited became permissible in the Arabic poetry of the mediaeval period (2025)

The candidate confrrms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. 'All praises to AllAh, by whose blessing good works are achieved'. 1 wish first of all to acknowledge the invaluable advice and encouragement I received throughout the whole period of this study from my supervisor, Dr. Zabia Salhi. 1 am very grateful for her unfailing support. Having experienced several academic difficulties, 1 wish to thank the University of Leeds and King Abdulaziz University for their cooperation and help in confronting and overcoming them. I am especially grateful to King Abdulaziz University, for its financial support throughout my years of study in England. 1 am indebted to the Brotherton Library and its staff for responding promptly to all my requests with regard to research material. Many thanks to them and to Princess Shah §. Al-Su(iid, at the Central Library of King Abdulaziz University, for providing me with occupancies, which were of great value to my research. I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to the librarians at the Manuscript Section of the Central Library of King Abdulaziz University, and the librarians at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, for providing me with rare material on mediaeval Arabic astrology that were crucial to my study. Special thanks are also due to Mr. Peter Coleman for reading and editing the drafts of this thesis, which has benefited from his professionalism, his helpful comments and thought-provoking questions. I am greatly indebted to Rumsiyya Suud who took the burden of housework from my shoulders, allowing me to devote all my time to my studies. All my love is to my daughter Menna, and, finally, 1 would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my Mum and all members of my dear family, who encouraged and supported me to undertake postgraduate studies, especially my late Father, who most deserves my deepest gratitude and to whom this thesis is dedicated. 'I promised you, Father, that, by God's will, 1 would become a doctor, and here I am, about to fulfil my promise'.

“Medicine and Astrology in the Arabic Tradition: Uneasy Dance Partners”

Traces one strand of the history of the Galenic doctrine of the critical days from its introduction into Arabic thought in the era of al-Kindi, through the time of Ibn Sina (d.1037). Ibn Ezra's writings as a link to the later Western critique of the critical days is discussed. (Revised Handout attached below)

History of Astrology and Astronomy in Islamic Medicine

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

Living in the desert with an open space and a clear night sky, the Arabs had always depended on the stars to guide them on their travels, to determine the progression of time and the changes of seasons and weather, which were important for their agricultural and trading needs. These dependencies on the stars, however, did not stop at these physical phenomena only, but extended also into divination such as astrology and geomancy, which continued even after the coming of Islām. Although Islām clearly rejects astrology, this paper attempts to show that astrology-which somehow includes also some knowledge of astronomy, since during the medieval period, a practicing astrologer is also a skillful astronomer-continued to be practiced widely and openly by the Muslims, in the market place, on ships, at deathbeds and even in the caliph's court. This paper, however, will only touch one area where astrology seems to have some good reputation, which is in the field of medicine. Although astrology had its own opponents, especially among the religious scholars, it was welcomed in the caliph's court and was practiced openly by some of the physicians. We will delineate how and to what extent astrology and astronomy contributed into their field of medicine. The methodology of the paper is a literature review in the history of astrology and astronomy in the Islamic civilization.

Divine Doctors: The Construction of the Image of Three Greek Physicians in Islamic Biographical Dictionaries of Physicians

Al-Qanṭara, 2013

Hawting for reading a previous draft of this paper and making helpful comments. A shorter version was presented at the "Literature and History: Middle Eastern Perspectives" workshop held at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev between 31 May and 3 June 2010. We would like to express our gratitude to the organisers, Ariel Moriah Sheetrit and Yair Huri, as well as to the panelists Ahmad al-Rahim, Nimrod Hurvitz and Daniella Talmon Heller, and to the workshop participants, who all contributed valuable comments. We would also like to thank Faith Wallis, for giving much valuable advice and many suggestions, and Cristina Álvarez Millán, who generously agreed to translate the abstract into Spanish. Keren Abbou Hershkovits wishes to thank the Transmission Translation and Transformation research group at McGill University for their generous Scholarship. Special thanks are also due to our anonymous readers, for their valuable insights. All mistakes remain our own.

Contributions of Muslims to Medicine and Science: Up to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century

Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, 1982

Bardoc wrOle, .. With the e xcept ion of an (lcca, iona I nll[l' or brief reference in thc textbook of medicine and ~urgcry. IhL' student of nwdicine ha:.litlle inducement 10 direct hi~ allcnl.ion to (he \ ... ork of the gn.:at piom:ers 01 scient•c ," OI1C possibl e cO I1~equell ce of thi~ reduced emphasis on (he hisloric}ll pa~rectiv~' in one's educl1tion is the nC(iI~i onal l y nOled tClldcnc y to Ireal Ihe I!cicnlilic ilnd phil osophinil work,. or the past as co nt emporary. A rc-acquainta nce wilh hi.,tory appears [0 bc the only remedy f(\f' such conccp[.ua I lapses. PrcseTl! art icle is a mode:-t effort in Ihis. direction .

Muslim heritage in medicine: A concise review on Greco-Arabic contribution

The presented review was an attempt to share the contribution of Greco Arabic Muslim scientists in the field of medicine. In this regard, al-Andalusi, al-Antaki, al-Baghdadi, al-Jawhari, al-Kindi, al-Nafis, al- Razi, al-Tabari, al-Zahrawi, Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idris al Qurtubi, Ibn al-Jazzar, Ibn al-Baitar, Ibn al- Haitham, Ibn El-Quff, Ibn Haiyan, Ibn Sina, Ibn Wahshiyyah and Ibn Zuhr with their contribution has discussed.

Divine Doctors: The Construction of the Image of Three Greek Physicians in Islamic Biographical

1 Acknowledgments: the authors wish to thank Daniella Talmon Heller and Gerald Hawting for reading a previous draft of this paper and making helpful comments. A shorter version was presented at the "Literature and History: Middle Eastern Perspectives" workshop held at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev between 31 May and 3 June 2010. We would like to express our gratitude to the organisers, Ariel Moriah Sheetrit and Yair Huri, as well as to the panelists Ahmad al-Rahim, Nimrod Hurvitz and Daniella Talmon Heller, and to the workshop participants, who all contributed valuable comments. We would also like to thank Faith Wallis, for giving much valuable advice and many suggestions, and Cristina Álvarez Millán, who generously agreed to translate the abstract into Spanish. Keren Abbou Hershkovits wishes to thank the Transmission Translation and Transformation research group at McGill University for their generous Scholarship. Special thanks are also due to our anonymous readers, for their valuable insights. All mistakes remain our own.

Chapter 6: after Galen Late Antiquity and the Islamic world

Handbook of clinical neurology, 2010

It is usually assumed that after Galen there was nothing new until the Renaissance. Contrary to this view, there were significant modifications of the inherited legacy in Late Antiquity, followed by fundamental changes within the Arabic/Islamic world. Their formative influence extends from the medieval period of transmission to the Renaissance and the 17th century. The increasing emphasis on the primacy of the brain initiated the beginnings of ventricular localization of function in Late Antiquity, which was subsequently developed into a theory and transmitted to the West via Arabic. Following the unprecedented translation movement in 9th-century Baghdad, the cumulative Greek and Hellenistic knowledge of the brain, nerves, and the senses from diverse sources were brought together in the systematic, logically unified Arabic medical compendia of encyclopedic proportions, which embody divergence from accepted views and new diagnostic observations. Their Latin versions became standard t...

Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (Ishim)

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PhD Dissertation (Table of Contents and Preface): Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy (c. 860 CE): An Interplay of Meaning and Form at the Intersection of Astronomical and Medical Traditions

Here is the table of contents and preface for my recently completed doctoral project undertaken at Humboldt University in Berlin. The focus of the research is al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy (Jawāmiʿ ʿilm al-nujūm جوامع علم النجوم للفرغاني), written around 860 CE in Arabic. I am currently engaged in the process of transforming this project into a book, with the expectation of having it published in 2025.

Islamicisation of Medicine in the 13th Century: A Case of Ibn Abī Uṣaibia‘s History of Physicians

IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia

One of the challenges in the Islamization of knowledge project is the absence of a ready approach for integrating the existing disciplines within the Islamic knowledge paradigm. Among the constituents of such an approach is an epistemological framework that defines a discipline to serve as reference for further efforts on the operational level. This study intends to fill this gap with a perspective on Islamic epistemological framework in the field of medicine during the Islamic medieval era. The focus of analysis is on the topic of the origin of medicine and the views of ancient Greek physicians in the compilation entitled ‘Uyūn al-anbā’ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibba’ or History of Physicians authored by Ibn ’Abī ’Uṣaibia‘. The study used interpretive textual analysis method to arrive at certain constructs for an Islamic medical epistemological framework from the point of view of the author. The analysis concludes that the perspective of the author on the selected topics was suggestive of po...