Vitalistic paradigms of medicine are the original models of medicine. Not just romantically historical. Not merely traditional like a 19th century Ottoman jubba. Original, in the fullest and most respectful sense. We can even say vitalism is orthodoxy in regards to Islamic cosmology, ontology, and medical philosophy; adopted and incorporated by the greatest scholars of this Ummah through over a thousand years of rigorous intellectual debate, vitalism has earned its keep. And any claim to the contrary must come with tremendous and rigorous evidence to its aid.
[Photo is of the entrance of Maristan of al-Mu'ayyad, a Mamluk-era Islamic hospital from the 15th century in Cairo]
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