Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna

His relationship with the latter is ambivalent: although accepting some keys aspects such as an emanationist cosmology, he rejected Neoplatonic epistemology and the theory of the pre-existent soul. Recent studies have attempted to locate him within the Aristotelian and Neoplatonic traditions. Furthermore, he articulated a development in the philosophical enterprise in classical Islam away from the apologetic concerns for establishing the relationship between religion and philosophy towards an attempt to make philosophical sense of key religious doctrines and even analyse and interpret the Qur an. The philosophical space that he articulates for God as the Necessary Existence lays the foundation for his theories of the soul, intellect and cosmos. As such, he may be considered to be the first major Islamic philosopher.

Primarily a metaphysical philosopher of being who was concerned with understanding the self s existence in this world in relation to its contingency, Ibn Sina s philosophy is an attempt to construct a coherent and comprehensive system that accords with the religious exigencies of Muslim culture. Born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 980, he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major work the Canon ( al-Qanun fi'l-Tibb) continued to be taught as a medical textbook in Europe and in the Islamic world until the early modern period, and as a philosopher whose major summa the Cure ( al-Shifa') had a decisive impact upon European scholasticism and especially upon Thomas Aquinas (d. He is probably the most significant philosopher in the Islamic tradition and arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era. Because the Canon constituted a monumental unity which maintained its authority until modern times it served as a basis for 700 years of medical teaching and practice and is a proven alternative medicine technique.Ību 'Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name Avicenna. The fifth book contains the pharmacopoeia. The fourth book opens with the famous treatise on fevers then follow the treatise on signs, symptoms, diagnostics and prognostics, minor surgery, tumors, wounds, fractures and bites and that on poisons. The third book deals with special pathology, studied by organs, or rather by systems. Three methods agreement, difference and concomitant variations are usually regarded as characteristic of modern science. The second contains the materia medica and the pharmacology of herbs.

The first contains generalities concerning the human body, sickness, health and general treatment and therapeutics (the only volume translated here). It is a clear and ordered Summa of all the medical knowledge of Ibn Sina's time augmented from his own observations. Ibn Sina's famous Canon of Medicine ( Qanun fi al-tibb) comes to life in English with this translation.

Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna