Arabic in the Sciences
Al-Murshid (The Guide)
المرشد
Al-Razi wrote al-Murshid as short medical aphorisms, finding Hippocrates' Aphorisms muddled and obscure. It was printed in Latin at Bologna in 1489, with the Aphorisms of Maimonides, and the Swiss physician von Haller wrote in 1776 that it deserved to be read before others. In Arabic it was not printed until the twentieth century.
- Author
- Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes) (d. 925)
- Field
- Medicine
- Arabic title
- المرشد، أو الفصول
- Latin title
- Aphorismi Rasis; De secretis in medicina (Bologna, 1489)
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Sources
- Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M20016: Maimonides, Aphorismi … Rhazes, Bologna, 29 May 1489
- ألبير زكي إسكندر (تحقيق)، الرازيّ: كتاب المرشد أو الفصول، معهد المخطوطات العربيّة، القاهرة، ص١١ و١٥
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