The conquests of Muhammad starting in the 7th century led to the spread of Islam and the teachings of the Qur’an, a theology believing that genuine health and happiness is the natural state of existence. While medieval Europe rejected the medical knowledge of the pagan Greeks, the early Islamic world was eager to assimilate and...Read More

As long as history remembers, medical science has always been part of man’s life. In the beginning it was difficult to differentiate magicians and witch doctors from physicians, In fact there was no boundary between magic and medicine. Fiction mingled with science. Medicine existed several thousand years ago among Babylonians and Summerians and in “Hamurabi...Read More

Starting from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an expanding corpus of medical treatises produced by scholars of religion of other intellectual, who did not practice medicine professionally, occupied a central position in the book markets of the medieval Islamic city and in the libraries of the dignitaries and the different book collectors. These books focused...Read More

10th-century Córdoba, mathematics—and particularly geometry—was applied to architectural design in new ways, constituting a “mathematical turn” of Islamic architecture. In the mosque of Córdoba and in the palaces of Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ , geometry was employed in the design of ground plans, elevations, decorative patterns, and even to measure the human view. While Roman architects like...Read More