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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]
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.
Prophetic medicine is distinct from Islamic medicine, which is a broader category encompassing a variety of medical practices rooted in Greek natural philosophy, (which are distinct from hadith-based Prophetic medicine). [1]
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 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.
Works by physicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.