Avicenna and Galen, Philosophy and Medicine: Contextualising Discussions of Medical Experience in Medieval Islamic Physicians and Philosophers

In this article I discuss Greek and Arabic philosophical and medical debates about experience (taǧriba, empeiria). I consider the Greek and classical Arabic background for debates about experience among Arabic commentators on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. I argue that these authors are influenced by Ga...

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Main Author: Karimullah, Kamran I. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Oriens
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 105-149
Further subjects:B Avicenna
B Experience
B Commentaries
B Simplicius
B Alfarabi
B Philoponus
B Hippocratic Aphorisms
B Galen
B Aristotle
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