Mustakim Arıcı
He received his BA (Faculty of Theology) in 2002 from Marmara University (Istanbul, Turkey) where he completed his MA at Islamic philosophy in 2005. He received his PhD (Dissertation title: Najm al-Din al-Kātibī and his Thoughts on Metaphysics) from Istanbul University in 2011. Before joining Istanbul Medeniyet University, he was Assistant Professor at Istanbul University (Faculty of Theology) between 2012-2020. Currently, he is Professor in Medeniyet University (Department of Philosophy).
His main research and publication areas are as follows 13th century philosophy and history of science, history of philosophy and science in the Ilkhanid period, 16-17th centuries of Ottoman philosophy and history of medicine, Islamic ethics, Islamic political thought, philosophy education and madrasah curricula, ulama biographies and their networks, history of Islamic medicine and philosophy of medicine.
Address: İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Güney Kampüsü
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His main research and publication areas are as follows 13th century philosophy and history of science, history of philosophy and science in the Ilkhanid period, 16-17th centuries of Ottoman philosophy and history of medicine, Islamic ethics, Islamic political thought, philosophy education and madrasah curricula, ulama biographies and their networks, history of Islamic medicine and philosophy of medicine.
Address: İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Güney Kampüsü
Dumlupınar Mahallesi D-100 Karayolu No:98 Kadıköy/İSTANBUL
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plague and dealing with various aspects of it tried to explain the disease on the basis of Galenic-Avicennian medicine, within the framework of the miasma doctrine, thus deriving their basis from this medical paradigm. (iii) Finally, the encounter with such a brutal illness prompted a quest for all possible remedies, including the occultist culture. This background shaped the language and content of the treatises at different levels.
This article first evaluates the modern studies on plague treatises written in Islamic world. Then, it surveys the Islamic historical sources, in order to pin down the meaning they assign to the concepts of “wabā’ (epidemic disease)” and “ṭā’ūn (plague)” Certain medical works, which were sources of medical doctrines and terminology for plague treatises, are also evaluated with a focus on these two concepts. The aim of this survey, then, is to understand the general conception of epidemic disease and plague in the Islamic world before Black Death (1346-1353). The characteristics of plague treatises literature, which constitute the main subject of the article, are discussed and analyzed, and a database for the literature is presented. While the works from the Mamluk and Ottoman periods constitute a continuous tradition in some respects, Ottoman treatises differ from the Mamluk works with certain features, especially in their content. Although this study touches on the common aspects of the works from the two periods, it rather analyzes the literature in question with a focus on points where the two traditions diverge.
Keywords: New, New Medicine, Ottoman Medicine, Iatrochemistry, Paracelsianism, Oswald Crollius, Daniel Sennert, Salih Bin Nasrullah Ibn Sallūm, Hayātīzāde Mustafa Feyzi
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