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anasir

Element. Theory of elements current with Muslim philosophers was that of four elements: fire, air, water and earth, which originated with Empedocles though they sometimes added to them ether as the fifth element specific to the body of celestial spheres; the terms used cognate with 'anasir were ustuqussat and arkan.

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