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PSYCHOTHERAPEUSIS
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Now after the) Amir had risen t* his feet and Muhammad
ibn Zakariyya had gone out and ridde'n off; the ^Vmi'r at once
fa'inted. When he came to himself he went forth from the bath 4*'
and (YI) called to his servants, sayirig, "Where lias the physician
gone?" They answered, "He came* out from the bath, and
mounted the horse, while rjis attendant mounted the mule, and
went off."
Then the Amir knew what object he had had in view. So he
came forth on his own feet from the hot bath; and tidings of
this ran through the city. Then he gave audience, and his
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servants and retainers and people rejoiced greatly, and gave
alms, and offered sacrifices, and held high festival. But they
could not find the' physician, seek him as they might. And on
the seventh day Muhammad ibn Zakariyya's servant arrived,
riding the mule and leading the horse, and presented the letter.
The Amir read it, and was astonished, and excused him, and
sent him an honorarium consisting of a horse fully caparisoned,
3. cloak, turban and arms, and a slave-boy and a handmaiden ;
and further commanded that there should be assigned to him in
Ray from the estates of al-Ma'mun 1 a yearly allowance of two
thousand dinars in gold and two hundred ass-loads of corn.
This honorarium and pension-warrant he forwarded to him at
Merv by the hand of a man of note. So the Amir completely
regained his health, and Muhammad ibn Zakariyyd attained his
object.
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ANECDOTE XXXVI.
Abu'l-'Abbas Ma'mun Khwarazmshah 2 had a Minister named
Abu'l-Husayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad as-Suhayli 3 . Hewas*a
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of philosophical disposition, magnanimous nature and scholarly
tastes, while. Khwarazmshah likewise was a philosopher and
friend of scholar^. In consequence of this many philosophers
and men of erudition, such as Abu 'All ibn Sina, Abu Sahl-i
Masfhi, Abu'l-Khayr ibnu'l-Khammar, Abu Nasr-i-'Arraq and
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni 4
, gathered about his court.
Now Abu Nasr-i-'Arraq was the nephew of Khwarazmshah,
1 The precise meaning of these words has not yet been determined.
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See p. viii of the Preface*to Sachau's translation of al-Biruni's Chronology of the
Ancient Nations, and the same scholar's article Zur Geschichte und Chronologic von
Chware^nt in the Sitzungsberichte d. Wiener Akadetnieio* 1863. See also Note XXIX
,at the end, and pp. Ti\ i of the Persian notes. Ma'mun II, to whom this
anecdote refers, was the third ruler of this House, and was killed in 407/1016-17.
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O.5 as-Sahli," but Mirza Muhammad considers "Suhayli" to be the correct
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form. He died at Surra man ra'a in 418/1027-8.
4 The first, second, and last of these learned men have been already mentioned.
The third is Abu'l-Khayr al- Hasan ibnu'l-Khammar (Wiistenfeld's Geschichte d. Arab.
Aerzte, No. 115, pp. 58-59) who died A.H. 381 (A.D. 991). See also Note XXVII
at the end, Nos. 5, 6, 9 and 10.
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