The heart
object · 3 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages
also in the atlas: The heart the idea
القلب · the heart · al-qalb · the cavity of the corporeal heart · two cavities · تجويف القلب الجسماني · تجويفان
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The cardiac organ, rejected as the soul yet made the seat of the irascible power, generator of the animal spirit in its left cavity, and, in proportion to the brain, a determinant of anger and of weakness of heart.
In the left there is generated a subtle, vaporous, spiritual body, from which the animal spirit (*al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānīyah*) is sent forth in the arteries to all the regions of the body.
others held it to be the principal organs — I mean the brain, the heart, the liver and the two testicles;
As for the fourth, his heart is small and his brain large by reason of the abundance of matter (*māddah*);
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The heart, named as the organ in which the vaporous spirit is generated and in which the spirit resides.
The animal spirit is a subtle body whose source is the cavity of the corporeal heart, and it spreads by way of the vessels to the remaining parts of the body.
Then, if one looks closely in contemplation, it becomes clear to him that in the body there is a subtle vapour, generated in the heart from the finest part of the humours, which carries the sensitive, the motive and the nutrition-governing faculties, and upon which the rulings of medicine operate;
The human being (1) is the spirit that is in the heart.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The organ identified as the source of the animal spirit, hotter than the natural spirit, which carries the faculty of life and travels by the arteries.
Its mine is the heart, out of which it arises and diffuses through the rest of the body, and it carries the faculty of life;