The men of the sciences
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ahl al-ʻulūm · men of the sciences · اهل العلوم
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The learned, to whom the improper question 'Where is the soul?' may not be put, since place belongs only to bodies.
Therefore it is not permissible to ask of the men of the sciences « Where is the soul?
Stromata
Astronomers or natural scientists credited with claims about the seven wandering stars.
and seven too the wandering stars, the men of the sciences say, that accomplish the management of the earth, by whom the Chaldeans think, by sympathy, all the things of mortal life come to be — wherefore they promise too to say certain things about the future.