Soul, body, and the spirit

Hassan Hanafi

pp. 145-152

in: The passions of the soul in the metamorphosis of becoming, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

The history of Islamic Medicine unfolds in four stages. Each represents a special kind, particularly regarding the method followed. The aim of this paper is to characterize each stage, to describe the positive and negative elements in each kind of medicine, and to pave the way for a new one which can combine the positive elements of all previous kinds without the negative ones.