Avicenna on Healthy Living: Managing the Elderly, Temperament Extremes and Environmental Changes (Laleh Bakhtiar)
Description
ISBN: 9781567447958
Author: Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher: Great Books of the Islamic World Inc. (1999)
Pages: 104 Binding: Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.25"
Description from the publisher:
Avicenna, in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 13, written over 1000 years ago, was concerned with the elderly and environmental changes to the same extent we are today. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner’s extensive endnotes.
The “Prince of Physicians,” Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was born in 980 C.E. in Afshana, near Bukhara. By the age of ten he had learned the entire Quran as well as grammar and then began the study of logic and mathematics. Once these subjects were mastered, he studied physics, metaphysics and medicine.