From the “Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine” to “The Canon of Medicine”

From the “Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine” to “The Canon of Medicine”Written Monuments of the OrientSyriaca.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/AQIMC9KS/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Yaser H.AkelFrom the “Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine” to “The Canon of Medicine”http://syriaca.org/cbss/AQIMC9KShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/AQIMC9KShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/AQIMC9KSWritten Monuments of the Orient9:1 [17]202391-100The article is devoted to the Arab medical written monument of the Middle Ages — “Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine” by the physician and polymath Abu Sahl Isa b. Yahya al-Masihi (approx. 970–1010). Of special interest is the first chapter titled “The Book of Introduction to the Art of Healing”. In this “book”, al-Masihi aims to add and correct already known theoretical medical knowledge, and points out the need for a shorter and simpler presentation of the practical part. The article provides historiographic information to show that al-Masihi’s work was the program and the model for “The Canon of Medicine”, the fundamental and basic work of the great Arab-Islamic physician and polymath Abu Ali Ibn Sina. Having compared the structure and content of these two medical encyclopedic works and considering the historical fact that al-Masihi was a teacher of Avicenna in the art of healing, the author of the article arrives at the conclusion that the treatise “Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine” could become a forerunner of Ibn Sina’s “Canon of Medicine”. It could be the basis on which the great scientist relied in compiling his fundamental work. Akel, Yaser H. “From the ‘Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine’ to ‘The Canon of Medicine.’” Written Monuments of the Orient 9:1 [17] (2023): 91–100. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55512/wmo328590. Yaser H. Akel, From the ‘Hundred Books on the Skills of Medicine’ to ‘The Canon of Medicine,’ Written Monuments of the Orient 9:1 [17] (2023): 91–100, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55512/wmo328590.