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Folio from an Arabic manuscript of Dioscorides, De materia medica, 1229. In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine", also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.
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The Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority for centuries. It set the standards for medicine in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. [5] [6] It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India. [7]
Physicians of the medieval Islamic world (6 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Medicine in the medieval Islamic world" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The treatise is authored by Ali al-Ridha who was the seventh descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the eighth of the Twelve Imams. His given name was 'Alī ibn Mūsā ibn Ja'far. He was born in the house of Imam Musa al-Kadhim (the seventh Imam of Twelver Shia Islam) in Medina on the eleventh of Dhu al-Qi'dah, 148 AH (December 29, 765 ...
The Firdaws al-ḥikma (فردوس الحكمة), [1] known in English as the Paradise of Wisdom, [2] is a medical encyclopedia written by Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari and completed around 850. It is one of the earliest Islamic medical encyclopedias, if not the earliest.
Hakīm or Hakeem (Urdu: حکیم, Hindi: हकीम) is also used for practitioner of Eastern medicine, [1] those versed in indigenous system of medicines. [2] Hakīm was also used more generally during the Islamic Golden Age to refer to polymath scholars who were knowledgeable in religion, medicine, the sciences, and Islamic philosophy.
An Arabic manuscript, dated 1200 CE, titled Anatomy of the Eye, authored by al-Mutadibih. Ophthalmology was one of the foremost branches in medieval Islamic medicine.The oculist or kahhal (کحال), a somewhat despised professional in Galen's time, was an honored member of the medical profession by the Abbasid period, occupying a unique place in royal households.