Preface

Introduction

The Concept of Spiritual Medicine Literature and Infrastructure

Nefs/Ruh as the Infrastructure of Spiritual Medicine

Theory of Ahlat-ı Erbaa as the Infrastructure of Spiritual Medicine

Possibility of Moral Development and Change

Approaches That See Change as Impossible

Approaches That See Change as Partially Possible

Understandings That See Change as Completely Possible

Criteria of Spiritual Health as the Infrastructure of Spiritual Medicine

Spiritual Medicine in Islamic Philosophers

al-Kindi: The Physician of Our Sorrow, Anxiety and Fears

Abu Bakr Razi: The Physician of Our Pleasure, Pain and Passions

Ibn Hazm: The Physician of Love

Ibn Miskawayh: The Physician of Our Loneliness and Fears

Ibn Sina: The Physician of Our Soul and Body

Maverdi: The Physician of Our Moderate Religious and Worldly Life

Fakhr al-Din Razi: Physician of the Vices

Nasiruddin Tusi: Physician of the Mind

Rereading the Knowledge: What Would Our Philosophers Say to the Ages and the Present?

Conclusion

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