Temperament
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mizāj · المزاج · temperament · al-mizāj · amzijah · iʻtidāl al-mizāj · the balanced temperament · the temperaments · اعتدال المزاج · الأمزجة
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Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Mizāj, the qualitative mixture that characterises spirits, foods and bodies, whose balanced state some physicians identified with the soul and on which the philosophers' soul supervenes once it is firmly established.
and a group said that it is something other than these things, following upon the balanced temperament, coming to be when the temperament is firmly established, making use of the faculties and the instruments, and acquiring objects of desire and perfections — and this is the doctrine of the philosophers.
As for the natural spirit, it is a body like vapour, subtle in consistency and hot in temperament (mizāj);
and the elements (arkān) and the temperament (mizāj) must be as they ought to be.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The bodily mixture, characterised here as dominated by fire and air, which licenses the inference from heat to the heart.
the body is a body compounded of the four natures, yet what predominates in its temperament (*mizāj*) is the fiery and the airy — as is known from its increase through heat and its dissolution through cold.
rather death is the extinction of the innate heat (*al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah*), which is an accident accruing to the body when the temperament (*mizāj*) it has attained is balanced.
And this nature is either the temperament of the body or the rational soul.