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Risāla fī māhiyyat al-nawm wa-al-ruʾyā

A short philosophical treatise on the nature of sleep and dreams offering a faculty-psychological account of how veridical dreams arise, drawing on Aristotle's Parva Naturalia.

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Author
Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Type
Book
Written
9th century CE (composed by al-Kindī, d. c. 873 CE)
Edition
1950
Publisher
Dār al-Fikr al-ʿArabī, Cairo
Language
Arabic
Tradition
Islamic Philosophy

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