MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC MEDICINE
MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC MEDICINE

Summary/Abstract: Medieval Islamic medicine represented a cornerstone in the history of this field of expertise and it has greatly influenced the honorable profession of medicine in Europe. During the Dark Ages, Europe was struggling to survive politically and economically to different invasions. Medicine and culture, in general, were left aside and nobody thought of developing these fields least of all to come up with new theories or discoveries. European early Middle Ages was not favorable to any breakthrough. Those who introduced new ideas, practiced medicine and promoted the survival of what Greek and Roman cultures had instilled centuries before the Arab physicians. Not only healers of the body, the Arabs who forwarded medical knowledge were well-known philosophers, writers, pharmacologists, polymaths able to broader the horizon of European knowledge with a new intenseness. The present article aims at presenting some of the most outstanding discoveries made by two practitioners of medicine of Arab descend: Avicenna and Averroes.

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