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One of the campuses of UIASS. Al-Zahrawi International University of Health Sciences (UIASS) [2] is a Moroccan university that opened in June 2014. [1]Al-Zahrawi International University of Health Sciences was established in the framework of a public sector partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training, and consists of three institutions: Al-Zahrawi ...
Al-Zahrawi (936–1013), Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, wrote comprehensive medical texts combining Middle-Eastern, Indian and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the Renaissance, considered the "father of surgery", wrote Al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice; Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar ...
The Michaab was an early medical device, invented by Al-Zahrawi, [1] a form of lithotrite which was minimally-invasive. He was able to crush the stone inside the bladder without the need for a surgical incision. [ 1 ]
In the beginning of his book, al-Zahrawi states that the reason for writing this treatise was the degree of underdevelopment surgery had reached in the Islamic world, and the low status it held amongst physicians at the time. Al-Zahrawi ascribed such decline to a lack of anatomical knowledge and a misunderstanding of the human physiology.
The 14th century French surgeon Guy de Chauliac quoted Al-Tasrif over 200 times. Abu Al-Qasim's influence continued for at least five centuries after his death, extending into the Renaissance, evidenced by al-Tasrif's frequent reference by French surgeon Jacques Daléchamps (1513-1588).
Al-Zahrawi, the Islamic Golden Age physician widely considered one of the '"Fathers of Modern Surgery" The first person to document a surgery was the 6th century BC Indian physician-surgeon, Sushruta. He specialized in cosmetic plastic surgery and even documented an open rhinoplasty procedure. [3]
The Kitāb al-Taṣrīf (Arabic: كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف, lit. 'The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who is Not Able to Compile a Book for Himself'), [1] known in English as The Method of Medicine, is a 30-volume Arabic encyclopedia on medicine and surgery, written near the year 1000 by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis).
Al-Biruni: Father of Indology, Father of Comparative Religion and Father of Geodesy for his remarkable description of early 11th-century India under Muslim rule. [14] Georg Morgenstierne regarded him as the " founder of comparative studies in human culture." [15] Al-Biruni is also known as the Father of Islamic Pharmacy. [16] [17]