Love Is a Malady: Remnants of a Lost Arabic Work on Medical Deontology

Love Is a Malady: Remnants of a Lost Arabic Work on Medical DeontologyJournal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/3YCTSN2A/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.OliverKahlLove Is a Malady: Remnants of a Lost Arabic Work on Medical Deontologyhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/3YCTSN2Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/3YCTSN2Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/3YCTSN2AJournal of Semitic Studies64:12019185-198This article offers, in edition and translation, nine fragments from an otherwise lost Arabic compendium on doctoral responsibilities, titled <i>Mā lā yasa'u ţ-ţabība ğahluhū</i> ‘What the Physician is not Allowed to Ignore‘; the work was composed by a certain Ibn as-Sarī, presumably in the early decades of the eleventh century CE in northern Iraq. The extant fragments were selected by the Nestorian doctor ‘Ubaid Allāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ (d. c. 1060 ce), and thus transmitted as an appendix to his famous epistle on psychosomatic medicine; they centre, like the latter, around the themes of passionate love, afflictions of the soul and the interplay between psychical and physical disorders. Framed by a short prologue and epilogue from the hand of ‘Ubaid Allāh, the fragments consist of partially elaborated quotations ascribed to Greek, Byzantine and Arab philosophers, physicians and astrologers. The epistemological value of these fragments lies in highlighting the struggle of some farsighted medieval Arab scholars to define and establish psychology as a medical discipline. Kahl, Oliver. “Love Is a Malady: Remnants of a Lost Arabic Work on Medical Deontology.” Journal of Semitic Studies 64:1 (2019): 185–98. Oliver Kahl, Love Is a Malady: Remnants of a Lost Arabic Work on Medical Deontology, Journal of Semitic Studies 64:1 (2019): 185–98.Arab ChristiansNestoriansUbaydullah Ibn Gabriel Ibn BochtishoVII-XVIII CEXI CElovemedicineprimary sources [Arabic] + English translationpsychology