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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Islamic medicine canonical 6
Islamic Golden Age medicine 2
Islamic medical tradition 2

How this entity was disambiguated

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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