This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...

İbn Nefis XIII. yüzyılda yaşamış olan değerli bir bilim insanıdır. Sorgulayan ve araştıran kimliğiyle ön plana çıkan özellikle tıp ilminde İkinci “İbn Sina” olarak da kabul görmüştür. Nefis’in esas tanınırlığı ise pulmoner dolaşımla ilgili literatüre yapmış olduğu katkılardır. Harvey’den çok daha önce küçük kan dolaşımını keşfetmiştir. uzun yıllar ders kitabı okutulan pek eser de bırakmıştır. B...

Ibn al-Nafis was an Arab physician, scientist, and philosopher who was born in 1213 in Damascus and died in 1288 in Cairo. He studied medicine in Damascus and moved to Egypt to practice medicine where he became the chief physician in the Mansouri Bimaristan. Ibn al-Nafis wrote in a wide array of fields, including physiology, medicine, ophthalmology, embryology, psychology, philosophy, law, and ...

our problem in this article is ibn miskawayh’s analysis of the nature of happiness, and its methodology is descriptive- analytic. ibn miskawayh considers happiness as “good” and “perfection” with respect to their holders; so, he establishes some inseparability between happiness, and good and perfection. ibn miskawayh has two definitions for the concept of good. he divides this conception into s...