Sleep Paralysis in Medieval Persia - the Hidayat of Akhawayni (?-983 AD)

Overview

Journal Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat

Publisher Dove Medical Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2012 Jun 16

PMID 22701323

Citations 14

Authors

Samad Ej Golzari

Kazem Khodadoust

Farid Alakbarli

Kamyar Ghabili

Ziba Islambulchilar

Mohammadali M Shoja

Majid Khalili

Feridoon Abbasnejad

Niloufar Sheikholeslamzadeh

Nasrollah Moghaddam Shahabi

Seyed Fazel Hosseini

Khalil Ansarin

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Abstract

Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni's Hidayat al-muta'allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled in the 10th century. Along with the hundreds of chapters on hygiene, anatomy, physiology, symptoms and treatments of the diseases of various organs, there is a chapter on sleep paralysis (night-mare) prior to description and treatment of epilepsy. The present article is a review of the Akhawayni's teachings on sleep paralysis and of descriptions and treatments of sleep paralysis by the Greek, medieval, and Renaissance scholars. Akhawayni's descriptions along with other early writings provide insight into sleep paralysis during the Middle Ages in general and in Persia in particular.

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