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This volume is the first English translation of nearly the complete corpus of Theodore Abū Qurrah’s works, with extensive notes on the Arabic and Greek texts.
Under the title The Reformation of Morals, the tenth-century Syrian Orthodox scholar Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī offered encouragement to the effort to promote moral perfection.
While not the first to write on this subject, Maimonides’s work bears his personal stamp with his emphasis on dietetics, which plays a primary role in so many of his other medical writings.
Because the original texts that Maimonides drew from have not survived, these aphorisms provide tantalizing clues about aspects of Galen’s thought that are otherwise unknown.
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The second of six volumes, Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6-9 provides tantalizing insights into the work of Galen and the world of medieval medicine.
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Medical Aphorisms consists of approximately 1500 maxims compiled by Maimonides from the treatises of Galen, the renowned ancient Greek physician.
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Volume Two offers Gerrit Bos’s critical editions of all three surviving medieval Hebrew translations of Maimonides’ work.
In true Galenic fashion, Maimonides stresses that a healthy lifestyle and diet are the most important preventative measures against chronic illness such as asthma.
This fresh, vivid debate still holds excitement for modern readers who are interested not merely in medieval Islam but in Christian thought as well.
Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam.
The Critique of Christian Origins contains a wealth of information on the ideological contours of Abd al-Jabbār’s time.
While Avicenna’s Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle’s Physics, the work is hardly derivative.