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'''Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari''' ({{lang-fa|علی ابن سهل ربان طبری }}) (c. 838 – c. 870 ]; also given as 810–855<ref name="Prioreschi2001">{{cite book|last=Prioreschi|first=Plinio|title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC|accessdate=18 May 2011|year=2001|publisher=Horatius press|isbn=978-1-888456-04-2}}</ref> and 783–858)<ref name="Selin1997">{{cite book|last=Selin|first=Helaine|authorlink=Helaine Selin|title=Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&pg=PA930|accessdate=18 May 2011|date=1997-07-31|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-4066-9|pages=930–}}</ref> was a ] ] ], ], ] and ] <ref name="Prioreschi2001">{{cite book|last=Prioreschi|first=Plinio|title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC|accessdate=19 May 2011|year=2001|publisher=Horatius press|isbn=978-1-888456-04-2}}</ref> of Jeeish descent, who produced one of the first ] of ]. He was a pioneer of ] and the field of ].<ref name=Amber/>{{Verify source|date=May 2011}} His stature, however, was eclipsed by his more famous pupil, ] ("Rhazes"). '''Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari''' ({{lang-fa|علی ابن سهل ربان طبری }}) (c. 838 – c. 870 ]; also given as 810–855 was a ]<ref name="Frye1975">{{cite book|last=Frye|first=Richard Nelson|title=The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC|accessdate=23 May 2011||page=415-416|date=1975-06-27|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-20093-6}}</ref> ] ], ], ] and ], a ] convert,<ref name="Frye1975">{{cite book|last=Frye|first=Richard Nelson|title=The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC|accessdate=23 May 2011||page=416|date=1975-06-27|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-20093-6}}</ref><ref>SN Nasr, "Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine", The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge, Volume 4, 1975, p. 416:"Ali b. Rabbani Tabari who was a convert from Zoroastrianism to Islam is the author of the first major work on Islamic medicine, entitled Firdaus al-Hikma."</ref> who produced one of the first ] of ]. He was a pioneer of ] and the field of ].<ref name=Amber/>{{Verify source|date=May 2011}} His stature, however, was eclipsed by his more famous pupil, ] ("Rhazes").


Ali came from a well-known ] family of ] but moved to ] (hence ''al-Tabari'' &ndash; "from Tabaristan") but became an ]ic convert under the ] caliph ] (833–842), who took him into the service of the court, in which he continued under ] (847–861). His father ] was a state official, highly educated and well respected member of the Syriac community.<ref name="Selin1997">{{cite book|last=Selin|first=Helaine|title=Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&pg=PA930|accessdate=18 May 2011|date=1997-07-31|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-4066-9|pages=930–}}</ref> Ali came from a well-known ] family of ] but moved to ] (hence ''al-Tabari'' &ndash; "from Tabaristan") but became an ]ic convert under the ] caliph ] (833–842), who took him into the service of the court, in which he continued under ] (847–861). His father ] was a state official, highly educated and well respected member of the Syriac community.<ref name="Selin1997">{{cite book|last=Selin|first=Helaine|title=Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&pg=PA930|accessdate=18 May 2011|date=1997-07-31|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-4066-9|pages=930–}}</ref>
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== ''Firdous al-Hikmah'' == == ''Firdous al-Hikmah'' ==
''Firdous al-Hikmah'' was one of the oldest ] of ], Based on Syriac translations of Greek sources (Hippocrates, Galen Dioscorides, and others).<ref name="Prioreschi2001">{{cite book|last=Prioreschi|first=Plinio|title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC|accessdate=19 May 2011|year=2001|publisher=Horatius press|isbn=978-1-888456-04-2}}</ref> It is divided into 7 sections and 30 parts, with 360 chapters in total. The appendix contains a review of Indian medicine based on Persian and Arabic translations of Indian medical works.<ref name="Prioreschi2001">{{cite book|last=Prioreschi|first=Plinio|title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC|accessdate=19 May 2011|year=2001|publisher=Horatius press|isbn=978-1-888456-04-2}}</ref> It deals with ] and ] in depth, as well as ] and ].{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} Unlike earlier physicians, however, al-Tabari emphasized strong ties between psychology and medicine, and the need of psychotherapy and ] in the therapeutic treatment of patients.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} He wrote that patients frequently feel sick due to ]s or ], and that these can be treated through "wise counselling" by smart and witty physicians who could win the rapport and confidence of their patients, leading to a positive therapeutic outcome.<ref name=Amber>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357–377 </ref>{{Verify source|date=May 2011}} ''Firdous al-Hikmah'' was one of the oldest ] of ], Based on Syriac translations of Greek sources (Hippocrates, Galen Dioscorides, and others). It is divided into 7 sections and 30 parts, with 360 chapters in total. The appendix contains a review of Indian medicine based on Persian and Arabic translations of Indian medical works. It deals with ] and ] in depth, as well as ] and ].{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} Unlike earlier physicians, however, al-Tabari emphasized strong ties between psychology and medicine, and the need of psychotherapy and ] in the therapeutic treatment of patients.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} He wrote that patients frequently feel sick due to ]s or ], and that these can be treated through "wise counselling" by smart and witty physicians who could win the rapport and confidence of their patients, leading to a positive therapeutic outcome.<ref name=Amber>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357–377 </ref>{{Verify source|date=May 2011}}


== ''Quotes'' == == ''Quotes'' ==

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Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (Template:Lang-fa) (c. 838 – c. 870 CE; also given as 810–855 was a Persian Muslim hakim, scholar, physician and psychologist, a Zoroastrian convert, who produced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine. He was a pioneer of pediatrics and the field of child development. His stature, however, was eclipsed by his more famous pupil, Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi ("Rhazes").

Ali came from a well-known Syriac family of Merv but moved to Tabaristan (hence al-Tabari – "from Tabaristan") but became an Islamic convert under the Abbassid caliph Al-Mu'tasim (833–842), who took him into the service of the court, in which he continued under Al-Mutawakkil (847–861). His father Sahl ibn Bishr was a state official, highly educated and well respected member of the Syriac community. Ali ibn Sahl was fluent in Syriac and Greek, the two sources for the medical tradition of antiquity, and versed in fine calligraphy.

His works

  1. His Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of Wisdom"), which he wrote in Arabic called also Al-Kunnash was a system of medicine in seven parts. He also translated it into Syriac, to give it wider usefulness. The information in Firdous al-Hikmah has never entered common circulation in the West because it was not edited until the 20th century, when Mohammed Zubair Siddiqui assembled an edition using the five surviving partial manuscripts. There is still no English translation.
  2. Tuhfat al-Muluk ("The King's Present")
  3. a work on the proper use of food, drink, and medicines.
  4. Hafzh al-Sihhah ("The Proper Care of Health"), following Greek and Indian authorities.
  5. Kitab al-Ruqa ("Book of Magic or Amulets")
  6. Kitab fi al-hijamah ("Treatise on Cupping")
  7. Kitab fi Tartib al-'Ardhiyah ("Treatise on the Preparation of Food")

Firdous al-Hikmah

Firdous al-Hikmah was one of the oldest encyclopedia of medicine, Based on Syriac translations of Greek sources (Hippocrates, Galen Dioscorides, and others). It is divided into 7 sections and 30 parts, with 360 chapters in total. The appendix contains a review of Indian medicine based on Persian and Arabic translations of Indian medical works. It deals with pediatrics and child development in depth, as well as psychology and psychotherapy. Unlike earlier physicians, however, al-Tabari emphasized strong ties between psychology and medicine, and the need of psychotherapy and counseling in the therapeutic treatment of patients. He wrote that patients frequently feel sick due to delusions or imagination, and that these can be treated through "wise counselling" by smart and witty physicians who could win the rapport and confidence of their patients, leading to a positive therapeutic outcome.

Quotes

On the Quran he said: "When I was a Christian I used to say, as did an uncle of mine who was one of the learned and eloquent men, that eloquence is not one of the signs of prophethood because it is common to all the peoples; but when I discarded (blind) imitation and (old) customs and gave up adhering to (mere) habit and training and reflected upon the meanings of the Qur'an I came to know that what the followers of the Qur'an claimed for it was true. The fact is that I have not found any book, be it by an Arab or a Persian, an Indian or a Greek, right from the beginning of the world up to now, which contains at the same time praises of God, belief in the prophets and apostles, exhortations to good, everlasting deeds, command to do good and prohibition against doing evil, inspiration to the desire of paradise and to avoidance of hell-fire as this Qur'an does. So when a person brings to us a book of such qualities, which inspires such reverence and sweetness in the hearts and which has achieved such an overlasting success and he is (at the same time) an illiterate person who did never learnt the art of writing or rhetoric, that book is without any doubt one of the signs of his Prophethood."

See also

References

  1. ^ Frye, Richard Nelson (27 June 1975). The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge University Press. p. 415-416. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6. Retrieved 23 May 2011. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) Cite error: The named reference "Frye1975" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. SN Nasr, "Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine", The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge, Volume 4, 1975, p. 416:"Ali b. Rabbani Tabari who was a convert from Zoroastrianism to Islam is the author of the first major work on Islamic medicine, entitled Firdaus al-Hikma."
  3. ^ Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", Journal of Religion and Health 43 (4): 357–377
  4. Selin, Helaine (31 July 1997). Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures. Springer. pp. 930–. ISBN 978-0-7923-4066-9. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  5. http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Miracle/ijaz1.html#Rab
  6. Abdul Aleem, "I'jaz ul Qur'an", Islamic Culture, Op. Cit., pp. 222–223

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