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Medicine was a central part of medieval Islamic culture. This period was called the Golden Age of Islam and lasted from the eighth century to the fourteenth century. [6] The economic and social standing of the patient determined to a large extent the type of care sought and the expectations of the patients varied along with the approaches of ...
The Canon of Medicine ( Arabic: القانون في الطب, romanized :al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb; Persian: قانون در طب, romanized :Qānun dar Teb; Latin: Canon Medicinae) is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Muslim Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna ( ابن سینا, ibn Sina) and completed in 1025. [1] It is ...
In Islam, prophetic medicine ( Arabic: الطب النبوي, 'al-Tibb al-nabawī) is the advice regarding sickness, treatment and hygiene based on reports of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as found in the hadith. The therapy involves diet, bloodletting, and cautery, and simple drugs (especially honey), numerous prayers and pious invocations for ...
Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi ( Persian: ذخیرهٔ خوارزمشاهی Zakhīra-i Khwârazmshâhī, "Treasure Dedicated to the King of Khwarazm " or Treasure of Khwarazmshah ), is a Persian medical encyclopedia written by the Persian physician, Ismail Gorgani (1040-1136) in 1110. [1]
In Shi’a Islam it is composed solely of al-'aql (reason) Principles. Principles of bioethics in the Western world were first developed and outlined by two American philosophers and bioethicists, Tom Beauchamp and James F. Childress, in their book, Principles of Biomedical Ethics.
al-Zahrawi. Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari [1] ( Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي ; 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi ( الزهراوي ), Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim ), was a physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus. [2] He ...
Al-Tasrif. 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 ...
Psychology in the medieval Islamic world. A medical work by Ibn al-Nafis, who corrected some of the erroneous theories of Galen and Avicenna on the anatomy of the brain [citation needed]. Islamic psychology or ʿilm al-nafs [1] ( Arabic: علم النفس), the science of the nafs ("self" or "psyche"), [2] is the medical and philosophical study ...