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The Architecture of the Body and the Order of Life

The Architecture of the Body and the Order of Life

Hardcover

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798888230190
Publisher: Ist Institute Press
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This second volume, The Architecture of the Body and the Order of Life, advances Ibn Sīnā's vision of medicine from structural description to systemic understanding. Beginning with the classification of organs and their hierarchical organization, the text unfolds a comprehensive anatomy of bones, joints, and muscles, revealing how form is inseparable from function. Each structure is presented not as an isolated part but as an element within a coordinated whole, defined by its power (quwwa) and action (ʿamal). The volume then deepens into the dynamic principles that animate this architecture: the movement of the vital spirit (rūḥ ḥayawānī), the integration of sensory and motor systems, and the balance of the humors that sustain life. In doing so, Ibn Sīnā portrays the human body as a living system governed by equilibrium, interdependence, and continuous motion-anticipating a systems-based understanding of physiology in which health emerges from the harmony of structure, energy, and function.

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