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Kitāb al-shifāʾ

work by Avicenna
Also known as: “Kitāb ash-shifāʾ”, “Sufficientiae”
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Arabic:
“The Book of Healing”
Latin title:
Sufficientiae

Kitāb al-shifāʾ, a voluminous philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia by the Muslim philosopher and physician Avicenna. It treats logic, the natural sciences, psychology, the quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, mathematics, and music), and metaphysics and is a major work of medieval Muslim scholarship.

This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.
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