History of Medicine in Islamic Iran

Document Type : Review

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Professor of Arabic literature, Department of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Historically, there is a consensus that Islamic medicine followed the Persian, Greek and Egyptian medicine and that a large number of Muslim scholars were non-Arabs. It is also known that most famous Islamic physicians who took their knowledge to Arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of Gondishapour in Iran. Therefore, In order to develop a more comprehensive understanding of Islamic medicine, one must study both Iranian and Islamic medical sciences at the same time. The history of medical science and its development in Islamic Iran coincided with the collapse of Umayyad dynasty and the domination of Bani-Abbas. This article carries out a detailed review of physicians’, written and translated manuscripts of this period to date. It also covers the history of hospitals and pharmacies of the Islamic period.

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Journal of Research on History of Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 2
May 2012
Pages 51-64

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