Avicenna or pseudo-Avicenna?
Published in Acta neurologica Belgica
Avicenna or pseudo-Avicenna?
Exploring biodiversity and ethnobotanical significance of Solanum species in Uzbekistan: unveiling the cultural wealth a...
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Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology
Despite its millennial existence and empirical documentation, the ethnological knowledge of herbs is a more recent phenomenon. The knowledge of their historical uses as food, medicine, source of income and small-scale businesses, and the sociological impacts are threatened due to the slow ethnobotanical research drive. Species of the genus Solanum ...
Avicenna's pharmacopeia for the treatment of animal bites.
Published in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology
Envenomation is a common medical problem. The Canon of Medicine written by Avicenna is one of the reliable sources of Persian medicine. The present study aims to identify Avicenna's clinical pharmacology approach and the pharmacopeia used for the treatment of animal envenomations and also to evaluate the related data in light of the current medicin...
Tayādhūq (Theodocus/Théodoros) and his role in the formation of Islamic medicine.
Published in Journal of medical biography
Tayādhūq, also known as Theodocus/Théodoros (d. early 8th century AD), was educated in the Gondēs̲h̲āpūr School and served the Sassanid kings. During this period, he contacted the Umayyad court and became the physician of Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf (d. 715 AD), the general governor of the Eastern regions of the caliphate. In addition to his knowledge on the ...
Aristote, Pline, Thomas de Cantimpré et Albert le Grand, entomologistes ? Identifier chenilles, papillons et vers à soie...
Dans le domaine de l’étude des insectes, le Moyen Âge est une terra incognita. La prépondérance supposée de l’héritage antique doit être pondérée et mesurée au regard des potentielles innovations médiévales. Pour poser les premiers jalons exploratoires, cet article compare la documentation entomologique d’Aristote, de Pline l’Ancien et d’Albert le ...
Reconsidering Arabic Roots for the Tertia Via
Published in European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas
This paper reopens the debate on the possibility that Aquinas borrowed his tertia via from a Latin translation of Maimonides ‘Guide for the Perplexed’. After introducing the text of the tertia via, I shall analyze the first part and conclude that while a ‘metaphysical’, tenseless reading is correct, we should not be nervous to call Aquinas’s reason...
Possibilité, potentialité et puissance. Des intraduisibles dans le système avicennien ?
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Ontology and Logic in Avicenna's Concept of Truth / Ontology and Logic in Avicenna's Concept of Truth: A Commentary on I...
This chapter looks at Avicenna’s definition of truth or, more precisely, some aspects of it related to the theme of analysis or resolutio. Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) tends to rework elements of the two traditions that constitute the history of analysis (and more generally the alphabet of Arabic philosophy), that is, in a very broad sense, the Aristotelian...
Avicenne, mythes savants d’Occident (xiiie-xixe s.)
Cet article s’intéresse aux légendes et aux mythes qui entourent la figure d’Avicenne (Ibn Sīnā, 980-1037) en Occident. Ces récits ont pour particularité d’avoir pris naissance dès l’époque médiévale, d’avoir connu une évolution après une rupture aux débuts de la Modernité avant de renaître, sous une autre forme, au xixe siècle. On montre ainsi que...
The Flying Man : An interpretive approach
A thought experiment by Avicenna known as the Flying man presents a hypothetical man in the air who is not aware of the existence of his body but simultaneously is aware of himself. A common objection to the Flying Man accuses Avicenna of committing an epistemic and logical fallacy known as the Masked Man. This paper analyses the two most recent in...
