Book ID: CBB001450783

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection (2013)

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Fancy, Nahyan A. G. (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 186 pp.
Language: English

"A ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences,the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, was a prerequisite for William Harvey's fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding the thirteenth century physician-jurist, Ibn al-Nafis' discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood from within his own medical and philosophical compendium, and his broader social, religious and intellectual contexts. Although Ibn al-Nafis' did not posit a theory of blood circulation, he nevertheless challenged the reigning Galenic and Avicennian physiological theories, and the reigning anatomical understandings of the heart. Far from being a happy guess, Ibn al-Nafis' anatomical result is rooted in an extensive re-evaluation of the reigning medical theories. Moreover, this book shows that Ibn al-Nafis' re-evaluation is itself a result of his engagement with post-Avicennian debates on the relationship between reason and revelation, and the rationality of traditionalist beliefs, such as bodily resurrection. Uncovering new ground by showing how medicine, philosophy and theology were intertwined in the intellectual fabric of pre-modern Islamic societies, Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt will be of interest to students and scholars of the History of Science, the History of Medicine and Islamic Studies amongst others"--

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Essay Review Dimitri Gutas (2017) Ibn al-Nafıs’s Scientific Method. Nazariyat: İslam Felsefe ve Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences) (pp. 139-145). unapi

Review Etker, Şeref (2013) Review of "Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection". Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science (pp. 125-133). unapi

Review Veit, Raphaela (2014) Review of "Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 632-633). unapi

Review Stearns, Justin K. (2014) Review of "Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 365-368). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Ben-Dov, Jonathan
Bertoloni Meli, Domenico
Brown, David
Buchs, Mina
Charron, Régine
Journals
Antiquity
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Galenos: Rivista di Filologia dei Testi Medici Antichi
Gesnerus
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Ballantine Books
University of Notre Dame
Wipf & Stock
Hempen Verlag
Concepts
Science and religion
Circulation of the blood
Medicine
Blood
Christianity
Heart
People
Ibn al-Nafis
Harvey, William
Januarius, Saint, Bishop of Benevento
Servetus, Michael
al-Majusi, ‘Ali ibn al-'Abbas
Avicenna
Time Periods
Ancient
17th century
16th century
Medieval
Early modern
11th century
Places
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
Greece
Alexandria (Egypt)
India
Iran
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