Dissection and Anatomy (Tashr ī ḥ ), a technical term in Islamic medicine which is used somewhat ambiguously to refer to both dissection and anatomy. In the fifth chapter (taʿlīm) of the first part (fann) of the first Book of Ibn Sīnā’s medical encyclopaedia al-Qānūn (‘The Canon’), entitled ‘Māhiyyat al-ʿuḍw wa aqsāmihi ’ (‘The Nature of the [Bodily] Members and their Parts’), tashrīḥ refers to the anatomy of the various body parts rather than thei…