the mule
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Abū al-Mukhtār · baghl · mule · ابو المختار · البغل
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A beast of burden bearing the kunyah Abū al-Mukhtār in the Arabs' reciprocal naming of animals after men.
the mule Abū al-Mukhtār;
Adversus Hermogenem
Example animal in an analogy about mirrors reflecting only like things, used to argue the ordered world cannot mirror formless Matter.
No one at the barber's has looked at a mule in place of a man — unless someone supposes that in this construction of the world, now disposed and adorned, formless and uncultivated Matter answers to it.