Thematic and content study of paranormal medicine in the occult sciences of the middle Islamic period (the review of three manuscripts; Daqāiq al-Haqāiq, Asrār Ghāsemi, Herz-Al Amān Men Fetan-Al Zamān)

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1 Comparative and Analytical History of Islamic Art, Faculty of Theories and art studies, Tehran Art University.

2 Faculty of theories and art studies, Art University, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/jhic.2024.370182.654455

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The science of medicine and therapy has long been associated with other types of pure and strange sciences. Paranormal medicine, like pure science and pseudo-science, was considered a way to respond to the inability of standard medicine. Therefore, considering the structural relations between medicine and supernatural sciences can provide a different reading of the discourse of occult sciences in Iran, to researchers. The following essay was written with the aim of introducing and analyzing thematic-content novel aspects of non-normative medicine in three famous and authoritative texts of occult sciences of the middle Islamic period; Daqāiq al-Haqāiq, Asrār Ghāsemi, Herz-Al Amān Men Fetan-Al Zamān. The difference in the writing tradition of occult sciences in the three mentioned texts indicates different aspects of the religious, social structure and human actions, which are the result of many non-standard medical procedures in the manuscripts. Ancient texts as indicative sources in historical surveys provide a true representation of the nature of past societies. Examining the mentioned sources from the two perspectives of the topic and medical content shows three approaches to maintaining health, treatment instructions and disease prediction. The most frequent medical references in the texts of occult sciences and the use of supplications and Qur'anic surahs are considered to be the most emphasized methods of treating abnormality. The current research, using the descriptive-analytical method of unpublished ancient historical texts, tries to interpret a different perception of it in the ontological position of science with a new approach to the position of foreign sciences.

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Iranian Journal for the History of Islamic Civilization
Volume 56, Issue 2
February 2024
Pages 136-155

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  • Receive Date: 26 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 08 July 2024
  • Accept Date: 18 August 2024

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