المصدر: | مجلة الكوفة |
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الناشر: | جامعة الكوفة |
المؤلف الرئيسي: | Al Khalili, Abd Alhadi (Author) |
المجلد/العدد: | مج3, ع1 |
محكمة: | نعم |
الدولة: |
العراق |
التاريخ الميلادي: |
2014
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الشهر: | شتاء |
الصفحات: | 9 - 28 |
رقم MD: | 638867 |
نوع المحتوى: | عروض كتب |
اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
قواعد المعلومات: | AraBase, HumanIndex |
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رابط المحتوى: |
الناشر لهذه المادة لم يسمح بإتاحتها. |
المستخلص: |
Study of those who changed history usually is limited to their lives and what they have achieved. However, it would be beneficial to study the medical causes of their death and circumstances surrounded that. To that end, many studies offered details about the passing of prophets, reformers, politicians, scientists, musicians, and others which may add more aspects to studying these personalities. This study is an attempt to highlight the medical sequences of death of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib, (AS), who was the fourth Caliph of Islam after Prophet Mohammad. This study is an attempt to arrive to a conclusion as to the direct and indirect causes of Imam Ali’s death in 661 A.D. after he was hit by Abdul Rahman Ibn Muljim on his head by a poisoned sword. That hit inflicted a deep wound to the skull, which penetrated to the brain. Two days after injury he passed away. Clinical analysis as to the cause of death did not go with the head injury or with the poisons studied to be the definite causes of death. This work tried to throw some light on many issues; basically on the circumstances when Imam was injured namely, what was his position when he was hit? Where in the head was the injury? What damage did it make in the head? Did the head injury cause his death? Was the poison the cause of death? Is there another possible cause of death? From the study it was concluded that the Imam was struck while in an upright position, on the left frontal area of his head. The injury went down through the skull bone to injure the brain. There was a significant gap in skull bone and depth of wound was around one inch. The meninges and brain were injured down to the white matter. However, it was concluded that head wound was not the direct cause of death as there were no signs of meningitis or infection to the brain; and the Imam remained completely alert until his death which is impossible if damage of brain or infection of brain or meninges were the cause of death as the patient must be comatosed prior to death. It also appears that the likely poisons used at that time which were studied did not cause his death, as his clinical state after injury did not match the clinical descriptions of poisoning with those poisons. Other possible causes of death were discussed and again no evidence that any was the direct cause of death. It is likely that his death was the result of a mixture of causes, includings poisons which were not studied. |
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