UDK 28:61
Author
Senella Krehić-Fočak
Summary
The paper discusses the relationship between Sufism and medicine. Firstly, it presents historical facts related to the understanding and the role of Persian physicians in the Golden Age of Arabic medicine. The relationship between medicine and Sufism is viewed through a concise description of Ibn Sinan’s vast medical- philosophical opus and specific examples in verses from Masnavi, where Ibn Sina and Galen were mentioned with a brief reminder on the content of major work The Canon of Medicine. In Çahar Makala (Four Discourses) the emphasis is on the broad education of physicians and briefly on recalling the concepts of ethics and deontology of this age. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of more spiritual approach to correlating science and spirituality by using a body of work that Ibn Sina left behind and his role through the examples mentioned in the spiritual work as it is Masnavi, in which he tries to encourage spiritual potential and avoid larpurlartism in transmitting comments of his works.
Through a case study, it is possible to profile the relationship between Sufism and medicine, as well as to profile a concept in which contrary views achieve a complete view of the spiritual and the practical component of medical science in the medieval period, whether it is about East and West or soul and body.
This concept is consequently applicable to modern views in terms of the history of science and health education as well as treatment in general.
Key words
Ibn Sina, Qanun, Sufism and medicine, Masnavi, Galen, Çahar Makala, The Golden Age of Arab medicine, history of medieval medicine, spirituality, poetry, ethics
URL: https://www.ibn-sina.net/en/sufism-and-medicine-reception-of-medical-thought-in-sufi-literature/