Medicine languished for many centuries after the death of the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, medicine’s founding fathers. The bubonic plague, which started around 500 A.D., was partly to blame. It took its toll over the next 200 years and signalled the beginning of Europe’s Dark Ages. War, disease, superstition and religious zealotry were rife....Read More

“Medical practice has been evidencebased since antiquity. What has changed is our understanding of what constitutes evidence”1 . How do we know that a particular treatment works? How can we measure the effectiveness of a certain drug? And how do we assess whether a medical or surgical procedure is better than an alternative one? These...Read More

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

Prophetic medicine or Medicine of the Prophet (peace be upon him) comprises the divinely inspired words of therapy of Prophet Muhammad (peace is upon him). The Prophet (pbuh) did not speak a single lie in his lifetime. He made specific statements on 37 ailments and 61 medicinal plants, herbs and shrubs while making prescriptions for...Read More