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Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms): A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations
ISBN: 9789004398450
Author : Gerrit Bos
Published: 2019
Publisher: BRILL
Number of pages: 190
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 235×155
Author : Gerrit Bos
Published: 2019
Publisher: BRILL
Number of pages: 190
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 235×155
Description
The present consilium, commonly known as De causis accidentium, after the Latin translation by John de Capua, was, like the earlier consilium On the Regimen of Health, composed by Maimonides at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son. As a result of not adopting the lifestyle and dietary recommendations in On the Regimen of Health, al-Afḍal may have continued to suffer from a number of afflictions, amongst them hemorrhoids, depression, constipation, and, possibly, a heart condition. The consilium was written after 1200, the year in which al-Afḍal was deposed and banished from Egypt permanently, but probably not long before 1204, the year in which Maimonides died.
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