East Syrian Monasteries in the Ninth Century in Asia: A Force for Mission and Renewal

Cochrane, Steve

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“…The question-and-answer method was a common style of teaching in the East Syrian school in the ninth century. 42 Al-Qifti in Ta'rikh al-Hukama' states that this method derives from the School of Alexandria. 43 Given that Hunain was familiar with the Alexandrian Galenic style of medical education and applied this method, 44 it is more likely that he modelled the question-and-answer format from Galen.…”

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Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb: Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq’s historic medical text with a distinctive style of Islamic medical education

2018

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The golden age of Islamic medicine (800 to 1300 CE) is a notable period in medical history. Medical education in this period of time was significant and systematic in Islamic territory. In the early Golden Age of Islamic Medicine, Abū Zayd Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq al-'Ibādī, an exceptional scholar and translator, emerged. He was known as Johannitius in medieval Europe. Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb lil-Mutāllimīn ( Questions on Medicine for Students) was written by Hunain ibn Isḥāq. This book remains a definitive text on Islamic medicine and has been printed and published widely in Europe. Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb is written in the style of questions and answers which is distinct from the conventional writing style of medical books on Islamic medicine. The current article reviews Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb and its distinguishing style, the question and answer format. Today, the question-and-answer method is a popular method of medical education, and clinical teachers tend to use it in medical education because of the advantages it offers. The use of this method in Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb for education and examination of medical students by Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq reflects a great improvisation in medical education and introduces him as the leading developer of the question-and-answer method in Islamic medical education.

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Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb: Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq’s historic medical text with a distinctive style of Islamic medical education

2018

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Mission and Contexts

Jennings¹

2014

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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A person's understanding of Christian mission-whether as evangelism, evangelization, witness, proclamation, prophetic dialogue, service, or whatever else-is inexorably intertwined with that person's context(s). Likewise with anyone's practice or reception of mission. The significance of context applies also to a whole people's understanding, practice, and reception of Christian mission. Our multifaceted settings shape how mission is conceived, conveyed, and caught.I do not anticipate much pushback from readers of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research on this claim. I would not be surprised, however, to find a range of viewpoints about the relative importance of the universal meaning of Christian mission versus contextually particular sensibilities about what mission involves.David Bosch persuasively demonstrated the point about mission's contextual particularity through tracing the way the church's understanding and practice of mission have been shaped by the various milieus in which it has carried out mission. In this issue of the IBMR, Volker Küster advocates "intercultural theology" as necessary to avoid truncated, contextually confined views of mission (or of anything else). Gloria Tseng brings to light "the historical peculiarities of the indigenization of Christianity in China during the early decades of the twentieth century."

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East Syrian Monasteries in the Ninth Century in Asia: A Force for Mission and Renewal

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Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb: Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq’s historic medical text with a distinctive style of Islamic medical education

Al-Masā‘il fī al-tibb: Ḥunain ibn Isḥāq’s historic medical text with a distinctive style of Islamic medical education

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