Ensoulment in Islam
This talk will cover how the legal, theological, philosophical and medical discussions intersected over the course of the post-classical period through the philosophical, medical and religious works of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210), Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1311) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350), amongst others. The talk will highlight the vitality of the medical tradition during this alleged time of decline and how different scholars negotiated the varied texts and interpretations of fetal ensoulment found in scriptural, philosophical and medical sources.
