The Complete Art
How Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi Wrote the Book That Healed Two Civilizations — and Was Nearly Forgotten by BothBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 40m
About this audiobook
The work you do quietly, that nobody signs your name to, may be the most important thing you ever give the world.
You know the feeling of writing the document everyone uses and nobody attributes, solving a problem so thoroughly that no one remembers it was ever hard.
Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi knew it too. In tenth-century Persia, he wrote twenty discourses covering the whole of medicine, inventing the structural divide between theory and practice. Then a monk translated it into Latin and left his name off. For centuries, Europe learned medicine from his structure under another man's name.
The Complete Art is a narrative biography of the stolen genius who shaped medical history.
• Discover why building the framework of a system outlasts individual fame
• Follow a stolen manuscript across centuries and empires
• Meet the physician whose invisible foundation we still stand on
It counted. Open the first page.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Science and Nature
Length9 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. Love as a Disease
2Prologue
1412. The House of the Sick
31. The Son of Fire-Worshippers
1513. Eat Before You Are Hungry
42. The Man Who Appears Once
1614. The Ethics of the Healer
53. Three Rivers
1715. A Child in Bukhara
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64. The King of Kings
1816. The Man Who Signed His Name
75. The Illness He Hid
1917. What Salerno Actually Was
86. What al-Razi Got Wrong
2018. The Eclipse
97. The Body Has Its Own Logic
2119. The Name on the Manuscript
108. The Hands That Heal
22Epilogue
119. The Heart, and the Net That Is Not There
2320. Author's Note
1210. The Sick Mind, the Sick Body
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