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Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology

In: Early Science and Medicine
Author:
Ashwak Sam Hauter University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

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25 Nov 2020
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Abstract

This paper brings both textual and ethnographic considerations to bear on Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s (d. 1068/470H) medico-philosophical commentary on the Hippocratic Apho­risms. He considers cases of madness and absence of pain in order to discuss the problem of ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql (mental derangement) and its relation to the body, soul, and spirit. Focusing on ikhtilāṭ offers a space to examine an important configuration at the limit of the physical, the metaphysical, and spiritual. Ultimately, a close reading of Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s commentaries moves toward a theoretical psychology (a theory of the soul) and a medico-philosophical language of the subjective experience of pain.

Title:
Madness, Pain, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00255P02
Language:
English
Pages:
453–479
Keywords:
Ibn Abī Ṣādiq ; Islamic medicine ; madness ; melancholia ; pain ; soul
In:
Early Science and Medicine
In:
Volume 25: Issue 5
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1573-3823
Print ISSN:
1383-7427
Subjects:
History of Science, History, History of Medicine

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