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In a new series of articles in Middle East Health introduces Islamic physicians who have made important historical contributions to the development of medicine.
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Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh Arabic pharmacy (Saydanah) was recognised as a separate profession from medicine by the beginning of 800AD century. |
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Ala'El-Deen Ibn Al-Nafis Syrian Ibn Al-Nafis became famous as a physician, author and original thinker, who challenged accepted medical beliefs and advanced medical science with his contributions. |
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Ibn Rushd - judge, philosopher, physician Ibn Rushd, also known as Averroes in Europe, was born in Cordova in Muslim Spain in 1126 (520 AH) and became one of the greatest Muslim philosophers, particularly when his influence over Western philosophy is taken into account. |
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The encyclopaedic knowledge of Avicenna Ibn-Sina's full name is Abu- Ali Husayn lbn-Abdullah lbn-Sina, and his titles were Al-Shaykh Al-Rais (The Chief Master) or Al-Muallim Al- Thani (The Second Teacher), second to Aristotle. He is known in the West as Avicenna. |
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The greatest surgeon in the medieval world Abu al-Qasim Khalaf bin Abbas Al-Zahrawi (AD 936- 1013), known to the West by his Latin name Albucasis, was born in Al Zahra’a, six miles northwest of Cordoba in Andalusia. |
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Chief physician to the Caliph One of the greatest names in medieval medicine is that of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya' al-Razi, who revolutionised the treatment of smallpox and measles, as well as making medicine's first connection between bacteria and infection. |
