Medieval · Arabic
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
A compendium on the human soul by the Syriac Orthodox maphrian, written in Arabic: the faculties, the senses, intellect, and the soul's relation to the body, set out in the Aristotelian vocabulary that Syriac and Arabic writers shared.
chapters
25 chapters- 01The Author's Introduction, and Chapter One: Establishing the Proof of the Existence of the Soulprose
- 02Chapter Two: On the Definition of the Soulprose
- 03Chapter Three: Showing That the Soul Is Neither a Body nor an Accidentprose
- 04Chapter Four: Refuting the Claim That the Soul Is the Cohesion of the Elements; and Chapter Five: On the Diversity of Human Soulsprose
- 05Chapter Six: Showing the Unity of Human Souls in Their Natureprose
- 06Chapter Seven: Showing the Difference Between Individual Human Beings by Way of the Three Faculties Proper to Human Individuals, Beginning with the Difference by Way of the Rational Facultyprose
- 07Chapter Eight: On the Causes of the Variation Affecting the Rational Faculty Found in the Human Speciesprose
- 08Chapter Nine: On the Meaning of the Irascible Facultyprose
- 09Chapter Ten: On the Meaning of the Concupiscible Faculty; and Chapter Eleven: Showing That There Is Only One Soul in a Single Human Beingprose
- 10Chapter Twelve: That the Principal Organ of the Soul Is the Heartprose
- 11Chapter Thirteen: Showing the Ranks of the Soul, and the Apprehension of the Sciences and Kinds of Knowledge Other Than Those Already Mentionedprose
- 12Chapter Fourteen: Showing the Properties of the Human Soulprose
- 13Chapter Fifteen: Establishing the Proof of the Need for the Words Used Among Peopleprose
- 14Chapter Sixteen: On the Proofs Uttered by the Sages Concerning the Relation of the Rational Soul to the Body and Its Parts, Being Five Analogiesprose
- 15Chapter Seventeen: Showing the Creation of the Soul, and That It Is Originated, Existing with the Existence of the Body, Neither Eternal nor Prior to the Bodyprose
- 16Chapter Eighteen: Setting Out the Views of the Adherents of Metempsychosisprose
- 17Chapter Nineteen: Refuting the Views of the Adherents of Metempsychosis in Their Entiretyprose
- 18Chapter Twenty: That the Souls of Animals Are Not Rationalprose
- 19Chapter Twenty-One: That the Soul Does Not Die with the Death of the Bodyprose
- 20Chapter Twenty-Two: Showing That the Soul Knows After Its Separation from the Body, in Four Aspectsprose
- 21Chapter Twenty-Three: Showing the Place of Souls After Their Separation from Their Bodiesprose
- 22Chapter Twenty-Four: Showing That the Spiritual Pleasures Attained by the Soul After Its Dissolution Are Greater Than Corporeal Pleasures and Bodily Desiresprose
- 23Chapter Twenty-Five: On Revelation and the Disclosure That Comes to Human Souls, and on Visions, Dreams and the Likeprose
- 24Chapter Twenty-Six: On Unveilings and Revelationsprose
- 25The Final Chapter of This Book: Showing the Disagreement of People Concerning the Aforementioned Miracle Worked Through the Aforementioned Personsprose
in the atlas
5 of 10 passages readFigures— 10 of 46
Gregory · God · Paul · Matthew · Bar Hebraeus · David · Jacob · Jesus Christ · Luke · Abraham
Ideas— 10 of 183
The common sense · The rational soul · The soul · The separate intellects · Apprehension · Demonstration · Editorial emendation of the printed original · Human perfection · Innate heat · Intellect
Places— 10
Corinth · Paradise · Earth · Egypt · The abyss · The first abode of souls · The fourth clime · The higher world · The world of the separate intellects · Villages and cities
Groups— 10 of 49
Angels · Children · Christians · The Muslims · The prophets · the apostles · Camel-drivers · Corinthians · Devils · Dwellers in rough and desolate places
Events— 10 of 20
Battle · Christ's death in the body and warning of the souls in the abyss · Death · Expulsion of Adam from Paradise · The Flood · The Incarnation · The commissioning of Moses · The commissioning of Philip · The completion of the treatise · The death of Lazarus
Objects— 10 of 50
The Book of Psalms · The Gospel · The brain · Gospel of Matthew · The Book of Exodus · The Book of Genesis · The heart · The liver · the sun · Acts of the Apostles
88 citations · 75 themes · 494 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.
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