Mujeeb Khan. “The Two Ibn Sīnās: Negotiating Literature”

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9 août 2019

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The author compares Ibn Sīnā’s medical poem as an expression of different perspectives on medical literature held by Ibn Sīnā. He is main interest is to discuss textual agency in the conceptualization of medical literature. The author argues that the organization of the poem, the use of examples, the inclusion of surgery, as well as the exclusion of various themes speak against previous interpretations as a simple, didactic tool for memorizing medical information. Instead of calling it didact...

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