MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC HISTORY
ABU AL-QASIM AL-ZAHRAWI
THE FATHER OF MEDICINE
Al-Zahrawi lived during most powerful period of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba. He was born in 936 and died in 1013, and served the Umayyad Caliph al-Hakam II and the military ruler, al-Mansur. Throughout his life, al-Zahrawi was a court physician, having been patronized by the rulers of al-Andalus and recognized for his medical genius. He served in such a capacity as a doctor for over 50 years.
INFORMATION ON HIS BOOK: AL-TASRIF
METHOD OF MEDICINE
Al-Tasrif is a medical encyclopedia compendium of 30 volumes compiled from medical data that Al-Zahrawi accumulated in his medical career that spanned five decades. It included sections on surgery, medicine, orthopedics, ophthalmology, pharmacology, and nutrition. Al-Tasrif contains El Zahrawi observations on the causes and symptoms of disease and theories on the upbringing of children and youth and on the care of the aged and convalescent. In the section on pharmacology and therapeutics, he covers areas such as cardiac drugs, emetics, laxatives, cosmetology, dietetics, material medical, weights and measures and drug substitution. Al-Tasrif was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century and alongside Avicenna's Canon, played a major role as a medical text in the universities of Europe from the 12th to the 17th century AD.
The video describes some of the modern medical techniques and tools that Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi developed and invented with the underlying message that most of his inventions and techniques were not credited to him.
Sources:
Author(s): Giorgio Nebbia Source: Isis, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn, 1966), pp. 402-403 Publisher(s): The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/228377 Title: History Of Arab Medicine Author(s): I. B. George Source: The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4491 (Feb. 1, 1947), p. 202 Publisher(s): BMJ Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20368787 Title: How Islam Changed Medicine: Arab Physicians And Scholars Laid The Basis For Medical Practice In Europe Author(s): Azeem Majeed Source: BMJ: British Medical Journal, Vol. 331, No. 7531 (Dec. 24 - 31, 2005), pp. 1486-1487 Publisher(s): BMJ Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25455732 |
Pictures that are taken from Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi book, Al-Tasrif.
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INB BAJJA
Ibn Bajja's Affect on the History of Astronomy
Ibn Bâjja was known to the Latin philosophers as Avempace.
For his more information on his life and contributions to science, please visit this site.
For his more information on his life and contributions to science, please visit this site.
Science and Islam
BBC DOCUMENTARY
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This documentary focused on the exploration of Islamic scientists and their influence on modern science.
ATTAR'S CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
The Conference of the Birds is an long poem of approximately 4500 lines written in Persian by the poet Farid ud-Din Attar. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, since they had none. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird.The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represent a human fault which prevents man from attaining enlightenment. When the group of thirty birds finally reach the dwelling place of the Simorgh, all they find is a lake in which they see their own reflection.
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Although the dialogue has been changed some from the original poem, this religious poem has been transformed into a cartoon for a better understanding.
THE OTTOMAN MILLET SYSTEM DURING THE 16TH CENTURY
In 16th century Ottoman Empire, the millet system allowed Jews and Christians relative freedom to govern themselves and their affairs. Emphasis is placed on this apparent Islamic toleration, especially at a time when there was extreme oppression of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe. This presentation will explore this system of religious toleration and its origins, as well as analyze whether it provided religious pluralism or not.