Description

The work is designed to examine Ibn Sina’s Book of Healing from a botanical and natural science perspective. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the ‘Book of Plants’, the seventh chapter of the Book of Healing, which is not sufficiently understood today. In order to ensure the integrity of the subject in his work, the author examines the Book of Healing, which reflects Ibn Sina’s philosophical system holistically, with all its chapters and headings. Since plant studies are a subject of natural philosophy and since all sciences were accepted as interconnected within a certain hierarchy in the scientific and philosophical approach of the period, Ibn Sina’s natural philosophy is also examined in the work. After introducing the reader to this entire philosophical system and understanding, Ibn Sina’s findings on many important topics related to plants, such as vitality, senses, plant groups, reproduction and development, seed and fruit structure, and wilting mechanisms, are carefully examined in the work. The studies of one of the most influential philosophers of the Islamic world on plants are compared with modern scientific approaches and an analytical perspective is presented to the reader.