Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

The Medieval Period, commonly known as The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from the 5th to the 15th century (476 AD to 1453 AD). It is the period in European history which started at the end of ...

What is 'Islamic medicine'? It is a term fraught with limitations. No definitive definition exists, but most reputable historians of medicine have characterized it by several key features. These ...

Medical ideas in the medieval era were heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, particularly Hippocrates and Galen. Although Galen had not been a Christian, he was accepted by the Church ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle Ages ...

"Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. This multifaceted study weaves a rich tapestry of Buddhist healing ...

Professor of Philosophy and Theology also adds that “The immense impact of Islamic philosophy on western philosophy during the medieval period influenced virtually all of the philosophical disciplines ...

After crossing from North Africa in the early seven-hundreds, Muslims ruled in southern Spain for almost eight centuries, interacting with the populations they found there. VOA's Zlatica Hoke reports ...