The library of Bar Hebraeus

1. Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 1 neutral · 3 extended 4 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 1 · ch. 5 · ch. 15 · ch. 17 · ch. 19 · ch. 20 · ch. 23 · ch. 24

   4 citations

   The first is impossible, as will appear later in [the proof] that metempsychosis (*tanāsukh*) is impossible (5).

2. The Book of Genesis Moses 4 authority 4 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 3 · ch. 15 · ch. 23 · ch. 25

   4 citations

   among them is what was said, “Let us create man after our image” (1) — and He, the Exalted, is not a body, so the soul likewise.

3. The Book of Psalms David 4 authority 4 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 3 · ch. 10 · ch. 11 · ch. 18 · ch. 19 · ch. 25

   4 citations

   [21] 3) The Book of Psalms 10:

4. The Gospel of Matthew Matthew 4 authority 4 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 3 · ch. 11 · ch. 19 · ch. 23

   4 citations

   And the word of our Lord, “The soul is ready and the body is weak” (4) — for were the soul not other than body, no divergence would have fallen out between them.

5. Aristotle 1 extended · 2 endorsed 3 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 1 · ch. 2 · ch. 4 · ch. 5 · ch. 10 · ch. 11 · ch. 12

   3 citations

   The fourth rank is the one called the acquired intellect (*al-ʻaql al-mustafād*);

6. The Book of Exodus The Hebrew scriptures 3 authority 3 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 10 · ch. 19 · ch. 24 · ch. 25

   3 citations

   [21] 3) The Book of Exodus 14:

7. The Gospel of Luke Luke 3 authority 3 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 11 · ch. 18 · ch. 19 · ch. 20

   3 citations

   And the pure Gospel said:

8. The Book of Job Job 2 authority 2 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 15 · ch. 25

   2 citations

   “Thou didst take clay from the earth and make a rational animal and set it upon the earth” (2);

9. The Prophecy of Zechariah Zechariah 2 authority 2 citations

   Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

   ch. 15 · ch. 25

   2 citations

   “God created the soul of man within him” (3);

10. The Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul the Apostle 2 authority 2 citations

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 3 · ch. 20

    2 citations

    and the matter is not of this description, for we see that after the fortieth year the bodily powers (*quwā*) weaken while the powers of the soul revive, together with the greatness of apprehension (*idrāk*) and the perfection of the intellect (*ʻaql*).

11. Book of Daniel Daniel 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 24

    1 citation

    But if that is not complete, it stands necessarily in need of interpretation, like what Ḥizqiyāl and Dāniyāl and others beheld.

12. Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 24

    1 citation

    But if that is not complete, it stands necessarily in need of interpretation, like what Ḥizqiyāl and Dāniyāl and others beheld.

13. Book of Leviticus 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 25

    1 citation

    10, 22, 22, 33, 37, 43, 43, 45, 53 The Acts of the Apostles 37, 55 The Epistle of Buṭrus the Apostle 46 The Epistles of Būlus the Apostle 9, 10, 22, 22, 29, 37, 44, 51 The Book of Leviticus 33 The Book of Ayyūb 33 The Book of Genesis 10, 33 The Book of Ecclesiastes 37 The Book of Exodus 21, 43, 55 The Book of Psalms 10, 21 (8 times), 22, 37, 38, 38 The Prophecy of Zakariyā 33

14. First Epistle of Peter Peter the Apostle 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 21

    1 citation

    « Our Lord died in the body and lived in the soul, and warned the souls that are (1) in the bottom of the abyss » (2) — for if those souls had no decisive cognition, they would not have been able to receive our Lord's warning to them.

15. First Epistle to the Corinthians Paul the Apostle 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 23

    1 citation

    how much more, then, the perpetual intellectual pleasure that Būlus the Apostle described in his words:

16. Galen 1 refuted 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 10

    1 citation

    So it has become clear that the heart is the mine of perception (*idrāk*) and of the motive faculty (*al-quwwah al-muḥarrikah*), and not the brain, as Jālīnūs claimed.

17. The Epistle to the Philippians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 18

    1 citation

    « I long to depart, so as to be with al-Masīḥ » (7).

18. The Epistle to the Romans Paul 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 11

    1 citation

    and “Because of the hardness of your heart (7) which has not repented” (8).

19. The First Epistle to Timothy Paul 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 14

    1 citation

    And to this state the blessed Būlus pointed in his word to his disciple, that he should govern (2) his body well (3).

20. The Gospel of John John 1 authority 1 citation

    Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

    ch. 15

    1 citation

    “The Father creates until now, and I too create” (4).

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah

The Acts of the Apostles ¶ · The Book of Ecclesiastes ¶ · The manuscript original of the treatise · Definition of the soul · Dictum against the soul's pre-existence · Dictum on intellect in the heart and discernment in the brain · Dictum on the gazing of intellects · Dictum on the hidden man in the heart · Dictum on the simultaneity of soul and body · Epistle of Peter · Epistles of Paul ¶ · Maxim on the wealth of the soul · Report and reproof of the transmigrationist doctrine · Report of Father Antony's rapture · Saying of Addai the Apostle on the soul as image of the Truth · Saying of Dionysius on the two destinations of souls · Saying of Evagrius on the station of the graced soul · Saying of Gregory on the separated soul · Teaching on the care of the soul · The Gospel ¶ · The Holy Scriptures ¶ · The Muslim doctrine that the soul is the bodily frame · The Torah ¶ · The agreement of the people of the Church on the fate of souls · The art of anatomy · The art of medicine · The divine books ¶ · The divine laws and religious customs · The doctrine that all human souls differ by nature · The doctrine that all pleasure is bodily and all bliss material · The doctrine that animal and human souls are one by nature · The doctrine that souls are created before the bodies · The doctrine that souls are uncreated · The doctrine that souls proceed from the separate intellects · The doctrine that the soul is the knitting of the elements · The doctrines of the proponents of metempsychosis · The five similitudes of the sages on the soul and the body · The opinion of Jacob of Edessa on soul and body · The opinion that soul and body come to be together · The opinion that the body is formed before the soul is created in it · The philosophers' doctrine of the four aspects of miracle · The science of nature and the science of the revealed Law · al-Kulliyat · al-Mashriq

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1. Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 1 neutral · 3 extended 4 citations · 18 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 2 passages anchored here · ch. 15 3 passages anchored here · ch. 17 2 passages anchored here · ch. 19 2 passages anchored here · ch. 20 2 passages anchored here · ch. 23 2 passages anchored here · ch. 24 3 passages anchored here

   The work invokes itself as an authority for premises it does not re-prove, and the editor supplies exact section numbers, which makes this a documented self-citation.

   The first is impossible, as will appear later in [the proof] that metempsychosis (*tanāsukh*) is impossible (5).