Avicenna

Avicenna in his major work Kitab Al-Najat argues that the human soul is not material. He argues that the rational faculty, namely the soul, does not know through physical organ. In this sense, he can prove that the soul is not inhered in the material body, therefore indicating that the soul is immaterial. Avicenna argued in Kitab Al-Najat that “for there is no organ between the rational faculty and itself, nor does one intervene between it and its organ or between it and the fact that it knows”.…

Hatice Çayır 2012202009 BODILY RESURRECTION IN GHAZALI AND IBN-I SINA The idea of bodily resurrection is very controversial issue in addition to being a strong desire of human kind that has attracted and confused the mind of man for centuries. Among all other controversial issues, death is still the biggest and unavoidable fact of life from which there is no escape. In this case, if there is any possibility of an afterlife and a bodily…

history was started centuries ago, although no one knows of its exact origin or when but we do know that it went on to begin an unbelievable journey. 1000 Avicenna Bukhara (980-1037), an Arabian physician and philosopher is thought to be the first person to actually write about coffee’s medicinal benefits, which he calls bunchum. Avicenna wrote ‘it fortifies the members, it cleans the skin and dries up the humidities that are under it and give an excellent to all the body’. 1100 Arab…

that work Avicenna gives a philosophical analysis of different aspects of prophethood. Sheikh A Rais as he was called presents a creditable account of the phenomenon of prophethood which could be seen in his few works. He explains into details the prophet’s ability to obtain and understand the truth. His work on this phenomenon makes it easier to understand the doctrine of prophethood and how those messengers of Allah differ from ordinary beings. Introduction Ibn Sina also known as Avicenna in…

6. From the middle of the eighth century until Muslims were exiled from Spain in 1492, Islamic culture and civilization exerted broad and lasting influences on Western culture. This period, known as the Islamic Golden Age, saw advances in science, philosophy, medicine and education. Great centers of Muslim learning under the Abbasid dynasty, started knowledge and scientific development that spread from Alexandria and Baghdad to Europe. The architecture flourished in Muslim Spain, later…

The two ancient powers who dominated the middle east were Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Empire. The Byzantine Empire controlled over Egypt and a piece of the Mediterranean coastline. Sassanid Empire ruled over Persia. Persia was a great cultural center and influenced Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. In 613 Muhammad was preaching his faith. He focused on three themes:Allah was the God, the rich shouldn’t share with the poor, and that men would have a final judgement before Allah.…

Color Therapy, or Chromotherapy, is used as an alternative to medicine and is considered to be a type of pseudoscience. Color therapy is a holistic and non-invasive, yet powerful, type of therapy that goes back to thousands of years. Color therapy can be found in India, China and Egypt texts that are ancient. Color is a light of wavelengths and energies used in color therapy. The light affects all living cells. When this light is used correctly, it can have a healing effect on humans, animals…

anesthetics came around. One of the most popular would have been Opium and Cannabis. Andalusian ophthalmologic surgeon Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi relied on opium and mandrake as surgical anesthetics. The Persian physician Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn ibn Sina ("Avicenna") described opium as the most powerful of the drugs in his The Canon of Medicine. The text lists medicinal effects of opium, such as hypnosis, antitussive effects, gastrointestinal effects, cognitive effects, respiratory depression,…

Have you ever heard of someone dying? Everyone has, right? Whether it was someone they knew and loved, or somebody who they had never heard of or cared about. People die, everyone can agree on that. People die, their bodies decompose, and they are gone forever. But, what about them? The thing that was who they are, their personality, the thing that made them move and act like themselves? Some would say it’s gone, destroyed, or nonexistent. Some would call that the soul. There are many thoughts…

In an effort to argue for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas provides five cosmological arguments in his piece “The Existence of God”. The second argument he states examines causes and effects and looks to explain these series in regard to their beginning, or first cause (43:1-2). Aquinas says that the chain of causes and effects cannot go back to “infinity” (43:60) because when the first cause is taken out, so is its effect and every following effect (43:61). I find this claim plausible…