Transcript Islam_Medicine

Medicine in Islam’s “Golden
Age”
By Charlie Baker and Rachel
Mitchell
Medicine
• Considered as a branch of both science and
art, medicine focuses on maintaining body
stability as well as the prevention, relief,
and cure of disease.
• Muslims were interested in medicine
because of its usefulness
• Muhammad stated that there was a cure for
every illness, and understood that some
illnesses were contagious
Role in the Islamic Empire
• The Qu’ran instructed that the healthy take care of
the sick. This lead the wealthy and powerful
contributing money to the construction of local
hospitals.
• Supported by the central government, advances in
the field of medicine included the preservation of
earlier texts. These texts authored by Greeks such
as Galen and Hippocrates were used to teach
doctors during their training.
• There was an emphasis on healing the sick
through Islam.
Influence on Other Cultures
• Influenced by and built on Greek medical texts
• In the Abbasid Era, Hospitals were built throughout
Muslim Lands
• Muslims had a vast effect on Middle Age Europe in the
medical field
• Richard the Lionhearted
preferred Muslim physicians
Medicinal Influence Today
• The medicinal knowledge obtained by the Muslims in the
Umayyad and Abbasid eras affects today’s society because
the Europeans were majorly influenced by the Islamic
works. We were influenced by the Europeans, so we ended
up getting some of the Islamic ideas.
• Islamic medicine provided the basis for many surgical
procedures, surgical instruments, and basic knowledge that
later doctors used to develop medicine into what it has
become today.
Bibliography
• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islami
c_12.html
• http://www.islamcity.com/Mosque/ihame/Ref4.htm
• http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Medicine
_and_Health.html