Islamic medicine

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Islamic medicine is the body of medical knowledge and practice developed and refined in the medieval Islamic world, integrating Greco-Roman, Persian, Indian, and original innovations that profoundly influenced later European medicine.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf component of Islamic Golden Age ⓘ
historical medical system ⓘ
medical tradition ⓘ
coreConcept balance of the four humors ⓘ
clinical observation ⓘ
experimental verification in pharmacology ⓘ
hospital-based care ⓘ
humoral theory ⓘ
medical ethics ⓘ
preventive medicine ⓘ
quarantine and contagion theory ⓘ
regimen of health ⓘ
temperaments ⓘ
developedField anatomy ⓘ
dermatology ⓘ
dietary therapy ⓘ
obstetrics ⓘ
ophthalmology ⓘ
pediatrics ⓘ
pharmacology ⓘ
psychiatry ⓘ
surgery ⓘ
toxicology ⓘ
urology ⓘ
developedIn medieval Islamic world ⓘ
ethicalPrinciple avoidance of harm ⓘ
competence and examination of physicians ⓘ
obligation to treat the poor ⓘ
professional secrecy ⓘ
flourishedDuring Islamic Golden Age ⓘ
geographicScope Al-Andalus ⓘ
linked to: Andalusia

Central Asia ⓘ
Indian subcontinent ⓘ
linked to: South Asia

Middle East ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
Persia ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Arabic medicine ⓘ
Greco-Arabic medicine ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine

Islamic medical tradition ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
hasWork Al-Hawi ⓘ
Al-Tasrif ⓘ
Kitab al-Adwiya al-Mufrada ⓘ
Kitab al-Maliki ⓘ
linked to: Kitab al-Mansuri

Kitab al-Mansuri ⓘ
Kitab al-Ma‘rifa bi al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya (on devices, including medical) ⓘ
Kitab al-Mu‘alajat al-Buqratiyya ⓘ
Kitab al-Qanun fi al-Tibb ⓘ
Kitab al-Saydalah ⓘ
Kitab al-Tibb al-Nabawi (Prophetic medicine works) ⓘ
The Canon of Medicine ⓘ
influenced Byzantine medicine ⓘ
Latin scholastic medicine ⓘ
Renaissance medicine ⓘ
medieval European medicine ⓘ
influencedBy Galenic medicine ⓘ
Greek medicine ⓘ
Hellenistic medicine ⓘ
Hippocratic medicine ⓘ
Indian medicine ⓘ
Persian medicine ⓘ
Roman medicine ⓘ
Syriac medical tradition ⓘ
institutionType bimaristan ⓘ
medical school ⓘ
pharmacy ⓘ
public hospital ⓘ
teaching hospital ⓘ
integratedWith astronomy for timing of treatments ⓘ
natural sciences ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
religious law in medical ethics ⓘ
introducedPractice medical records in hospitals ⓘ
mobile clinics in some regions ⓘ
regular physician salaries ⓘ
separate wards by disease ⓘ
separate wards by sex ⓘ
systematic hospital pharmacies ⓘ
keyFigure Al-Baghdadi (Ibn al-Tilmidh) ⓘ
Al-Biruni ⓘ
Al-Kindi ⓘ
Al-Majusi ⓘ
Al-Razi ⓘ
linked to: Al-Razi (Rhazes)

Al-Samarqandi ⓘ
Al-Tabari (physician) ⓘ
Al-Zahrawi ⓘ
Hunayn ibn Ishaq ⓘ
Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes

Ibn Sina ⓘ
linked to: Avicenna

Ibn Zuhr ⓘ
Ibn al-Baytar ⓘ
Ibn al-Jazzar ⓘ
Ibn al-Nafis ⓘ
Ibn al-Quff ⓘ
laterForm Mughal medical tradition ⓘ
Ottoman medical tradition ⓘ
Safavid medical tradition ⓘ
Unani medicine ⓘ
majorCenter Baghdad ⓘ
Bukhara ⓘ
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Cairo ⓘ
Cordoba ⓘ
Damascus ⓘ
Granada ⓘ
Isfahan ⓘ
Nishapur ⓘ
Rayy ⓘ
Toledo ⓘ
method case histories ⓘ
comparative evaluation of drugs ⓘ
hospital rounds ⓘ
licensing of physicians ⓘ
systematic clinical observation ⓘ
written medical curricula ⓘ
notableDiscovery classification of contagious diseases ⓘ
description of smallpox and measles by Al-Razi ⓘ
detailed surgical instruments by Al-Zahrawi ⓘ
pulmonary circulation description by Ibn al-Nafis ⓘ
religiousContext Islam ⓘ
Prophetic traditions on health ⓘ
Qur’anic worldview ⓘ
timePeriod 10th century ⓘ
11th century ⓘ
12th century ⓘ
13th century ⓘ
14th century ⓘ
15th century ⓘ
8th century ⓘ
9th century ⓘ
transmittedVia Crusader states contacts ⓘ
Latin translations in medieval Europe ⓘ
translation movement in Sicily ⓘ
translation movement in Toledo ⓘ
usedLanguage Arabic ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language

Syriac ⓘ
later Latin translations ⓘ

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Islamic world → hasCulturalContribution → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Islamic medicine → hasAlternativeName → Islamic medical tradition ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Islamic medicine → hasAlternativeName → Greco-Arabic medicine ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Galen → influenced → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Hippocratic medical tradition → influenced → Islamic Golden Age medicine ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Hippocrates → influenced → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Persian medicine → influenced → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Galenic medicine → influenced → Islamic Golden Age medicine ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Syriac medical tradition → influenced → Islamic medical tradition ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Al-Majusi → influenced → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Kitab al-Adwiya al-Mufrada → tradition → Islamic medicine ⓘ
De Materia Medica → influenced → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Byzantine medicine → transmittedTo → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Byzantine medicine → relatedTo → Islamic Golden Age medicine ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
Book of Foods → associatedWith → Islamic medicine ⓘ
Book on the Medicine of Children → partOf → Islamic medical tradition ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine
work on simple drugs (adwiya mufrada) → isPartOf → Islamic medical literature ⓘ
linked to: Islamic medicine