Blood
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
al-dam · الدم · blood
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
One of the bodily constituents that some physicians identified with the soul itself.
some held that it is the blood;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Blood, the vehicle whose inward and outward motion with heat accounts for pallor, blush and tears in the affective chapter.
and so the heat returns inward and the blood returns with it, and the colour of those whom this state befalls turns livid (4).
As for the cause of weeping, it is that when a man feels a dire need, the abundant heat folds inward, the blood of the heart and of the brain is compressed (2), and the moisture that lies in the pasture of the brain within the eyelids is driven toward the eye;
and thereafter he emboldens himself, as though he had committed no great sin, and so the heat spreads outward again and his face reddens [27] on account of the rarefaction of his flesh by that blood which follows the heat in being drawn in and driven out by motion.