The ear
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
al-udhun · الأذن · الاذن
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The organ of hearing, cited with the eye as an outward sense that cannot apprehend without the presence of matter.
the outward sense does not apprehend the sensible except together with the matter that discloses it, such as the eye and the ear and the rest.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
Al-udhun, named as the place the older philosophers lodged the hearing faculty and, in the modern account, the surface struck by the thunder's rumble whose vibration arouses the stored auditory and visual forms.
So when the rumble of a new thunder suddenly strikes the ear, its vibration awakens directly the auditory forms — and this is the conception of the thunder — and indirectly, and that is the conception of the lightning.
the seeing faculty is lodged in the eye, the hearing faculty in the ear, and so too the other three faculties, without the cerebrum, its vesicles, and the nerve fibres that bind the centres one to another having any part in their action.
so what is conveyed from the eye turns into a visual undulation, and what is conveyed from the ear turns into an auditory undulation (etc.