فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

AllamaQutb al-DinShirazi (634-710 AH) was a physician, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, scholar and musician in Islamic golden age. He was one of the most famous students of KhwajaNasirToosi and the most famous interpreter of IbnSina's Canon of Medicine. Most of his theories were a detailed and comprehensive form of his predecessor's theories. Among these cases, his theory about the meaning of "death" is discussed here. He made detailed discussions about death. He focused on the definition of death initially, and then described its physiopathology from the perspective of Iranian traditional medicine. He also talked about life span, its usual rate, and the maximum of lifetime experimentally. Finally, he discussed about association between health recommendation and delaying death. Allama's medical explanation of the death is greatly influenced by the Aristotelian philosophical approach to the concept of life and death. Most of the physiological explanation of death is based upon concepts that living organism ware defined; Concepts such as spirit, natural heat and moisture, chief organs, medical spirits, pulse, and breathing.