“The Canon of Medicine” written by Avicenna, the Iranian physician and the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam was translated and published in Chinese.
The
public relations department of Islamic Culture and Relations Organization
(ICRO) reported that the book was converted into Chinese by scholar Zhu Ming
from Beijing Medical University.
The
book contains four chapters including the biography of Avicenna (980-1037), as
well as images of the English and German translations.
“The Canon of Medicine” has long been popular in China with
Chinese physicians and parts of the book have been previously translated and
used there. However, this is the first time the entire book has been released.
Avicenna’s
Canon is a 14-volume medical encyclopedia completed in 1025. It presents a
clear and organized summary of all the medical knowledge of the time.
Originally written in Arabic, the book was later translated into a number of
other languages, including Persian, Latin, Hebrew, German, French and English.
Avicenna
was a polymath of Persian origin and the foremost physician and philosopher of
his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic
psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, paleontologist,
mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist.
He
wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240
have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on
philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are
The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The
Canon of Medicine.
Source:
IBNA News Agency