by M. Zafer Wafai, Serene Wafai | Sep 3, 2021
The book will be discussed in this article is Al-Kafi fi al Kuhl, The Sufficient in Ophthalmology, which was written by Khalifah Ibn Abi Al-Mahasin Al-Halabi (D 656AH=1256 CE). The first medical historian to mention this book and bring it to the attention of the...
by Prof. Dr.Nil Sari | May 4, 2021
Summary Āhı̇̄ Aḥmed Çelebi, chief physician to three Ottoman sultans, provides detailed information about the formation and treatment of kidney and bladder stones in his work titled “Treatise On the Urinary Calculus in the Kidneys and the Bladder”, which...
by Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal,Marium Husain | May 4, 2021
Introduction It is known that there is little information out there on the role of women in Islamic medical history. According to some, they have not played any significant part in the development of this field. In this piece, we will prove that this assumption is not...
by Husain F. Nagamia | May 4, 2021
Most Muslim physicians have heard (or should have heard) about famous Muslim physicians such as al-Razi, al-Majusi, Ibn Sina, Ibn al-Nafis, but few physicians have heard about Ibn Abi Usaybi’aa. Although not as famous as some of his contemporaries, Ibn Abi...
by Majed Chamsi-Pasha, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha . | Dec 31, 2020
Abstract The impact of Islamic civilization on Western science and medicine between the 9th and 13th centuries is not well remembered by many in the West. While Europe was in the so-called Dark Ages, Muslim physicians like Avicenna, Al-Razi, Al-Zahrawi and others,...