Spiritual Medicine > ISLAMIC MEDICINE

Islamic traditional medicine flourished during the Islamic caliphate and the European Renaissance in the 15th century. A number of medical institutions were founded under the auspices of Abbasid Caliphate in the East during the 9th century. Among the great physicians in the Eastern caliphate under the Abbasids are Al-Rhazes and Avicenna
Muslims reached greater heights in mathematics, astronomy and geography, in mechanics and optics, in chemistry, pharmacy and medicine, in botany, mineralogy by means of new and successful discoveries surpassing their predecessors. Not only Islamic medicine made remarkable and important scientific discoveries, but it also exercised a very great influence upon the whole of Europe for several centuries.
Islamic medicine is eclectic, it was built upon the earlier Indian, Persian, Roman and Greek medical knowledge. The Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'moun instituted special commissions of scholars for carrying out of translations of Greek manuscripts. Indian, Persian literatures too were taken into consideration. At first, medical, mathematical and astronomical works were directly translated into Arabic. Towards the end of ninth century there did not remain a single important scientific work which had not been translated. The translations were chiefly through Nestorian medical centre at Jundishapur. more...

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