 However, al-Kulliyyāt is not a book of medical generalities, as some translations tend to suggest. It is rather a book on the universals of medicine (kulliyyāt fī al-ṭibb), as its title suggests—that is, on the foundations, principles, and basic rules that regulate medical theory and practice. It thus provides the foundations (usṭuqsāt) of the medical art (Kulliyyāt III.282).