Medieval Islamic Medicine and Medical Luminaries

Medieval Islamic Medicine and Medical Luminaries

While Europe was passing through the Dark Ages, a vibrant Islamic civilization existed in the Middle East. Driven by the search for knowledge, scholars of different ethnicities and religious affiliations worked together to translate the available knowledge of the ancients (Greek, Roman, Indian, Persian, etc.) into Arabic, added to it their own experiences, preserved it in Arabic, and delivered it to Western civilization during the Renaissance...