avicenna has presented some divisions of happiness: at the first he defines it as favorite thing per se (intrinsically), and goal in itself. he divides also happiness in one respect into two kinds; the first one is happiness in relation to different powers of soul, and the other is happiness in relation to soul itself. from the other viewpoint he divides happiness into bodily and spiritual and ...

Avicenna (Sheikh Bu Ali Sina, 980-1037 A.D.) was the author of the 'Canon of Medicine' (Al Qanoon) Fig. 1 .In his tract on cardiac drugs he has listed 64 drugs which he used for the treatment of cardiac diseases (1). A possibility of errors of interpretation exists around the research on such drugs mentioned in old treatise. Research problems pertaining to these drugs can be resolved by applyin...

AIMS & OBJECTIVE To determine the age and gender distribution and clinical presentation of patients together with histological types of colorectal cancer cases presented to Ibn Sina specialized hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study was conducted in Ibn Sina Hospital (Sudan). Seventy three (73) patients of colorectal cancer who presented in the period from January 2010 to Dec...

This paper studies the analysis of reductio ad absurdum by Ibn Sı̄nā (known to the Latin West as Avicenna), who was born in 980 in a village near the Bactrian town of Balkh on the Silk Road, and died in 1037 after a career spent moving around within the present boundaries of Iran. References to Ibn Sı̄nā’s writings are to his Arabic texts listed in the bibliography, and are given in the format pa...

Rabies is a fatal viral disease affecting warm-blooded mammals (bats, carnivores, and ruminants) even humans. The virus usually transmitted between humans or other animals through the bite of infected animals. However, there are unusual ways to share virus, such as organ transplants. has been known in ancient world since about 2300 BC. Dogs were commonly leading carriers disease. There strange ...

This publication is a part of cycle dedicated to revealing the reform potential Falsafa, hellenizing school Philosophical Theology in classical Islam, greatest representatives which were al-Farabi (d. 950), Ibn Sina (Avicenna; d. 1037) and Rushd (Averroes; 1198). A notable number concepts characteristic this (including those traditionally qualified as heterodox) turned out be demand by modernis...

The article is based on the manuscript “Hundred books skills of Medicine” by Abu Sahl al-Masihi from collection Oriental Department Gorky Library St. Petersburg State University (Ms. O 667). author this written monument was regarded as teacher Ibn Sina (Avicenna). text an encyclopedic medical treatise XI century. It consists one hundred “books”, each which a separate and independent chapter ded...