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721 |
Medicine was treated as a craft above, 2:373 II. |
722 |
This
reference to Galen's De usu partium is
added in C and D. Cf. also 1:90,
above. |
723 |
The
Arabs had more historically accurate data on Galen's life, but
the misinformation that Ibn Khaldun presents was widely known,
although usually rejected as wrong. Cf. R. Walzer, Galen on
Jews and Christians (Oxford,
1949), pp. 92 ff.; G. Levi Della Vida in
Journal of the
American Oriental Society, LXX
(1950), 184. Cf, also Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi,
Mir'at al-zaman, Pt. II
(MS. Koprulu, photostat Cairo, Egyptian Library,
ta'rikh 551, pp. 41 f.,
III, 114), who refers to Pseudo-Ghazzali,
Sirr al-'alamayn. Cf.,
further, 'Ibar, II, 188;
and, most recently, G. Vajda in
Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et
Slaves, XIII (1953), pp. 641-52. |
724 |
Muhammad b. Zakariya' (Rhazes), 251-313 [865-925]. Cf. GAL, I,
233 ff.; Suppl., I, 417 ff. |
725 |
'Ali
b. al-'Abbas [tenth century]. Cf. GAL, I, 237; Suppl.,
I, 423. |
726 |
Abd-al-Malik b. Zuhr (Avenzoar), d. 557 [1162]. Cf. GAL, I,
487; Suppl., I, 890. |
727 |
Actually, medicine is considered a basic craft (2:355 f.,
above), though one needed only in cities. See 2:376 f.,
above. |
728 |
For
this legendary physician, whose lifetime is said to have spanned
the period from Muhammad to Mu'awiyah, cf. Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, I,109-13;
tr. B. R. Sanguinetti, Journal asiatique, V 5 (1855),
403-19. Ibn Khallikan, tr. W. M. de Slane, IV, 253
f. Some of the stories connected with him are reproduced in C.
Elgood, A Medical History of Persia (Cambridge, 1951),
pp. 66-68. |
729 |
C and D have:
"traditions concerned with the medicine of the Prophet" (an-nabawiyat
instead of ash-shar'iyat). |
730 |
Muhammad had advised some people to try a
different method of fecundation, but his method proved a
failure. Cf. I. Goldziher, Die
Zahiriten, pp.
82
f. |
731 |
"And" is not found in B. |
732 |
Cf. al-Bukhari,
Sahih, IV, 57: "A person came to the Prophet and
said: 'My brother has diarrhea.' The Prophet said: 'Give him
honey to drink.' He did so. Then, he said: 'I gave him honey to
drink, but it only made his diarrhea worse.' Whereupon Muhammad
said: 'God speaks the truth. Your brother's stomach lies.' " Cf.
also Concordance, I, 191b. The story does not
exactly illustrate the point Ibn Khaldun wants to make. |
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