mao ba? grabe baya ang contribution sa mga muslim in the medicine.
That is really true, Islam was very superlative in inducing learning and growth of culture, you know. It was actually the muslims of the Abbasid Caliphate and during the Suljuk Turkish rule that the old greek texts were preserved and re-written in arabic. Actually, this is how Europeans came into contact with it--during the crusades in the 12th-14th centuries, the european crusaders came into contact with the arabic translation of the original greek texts and scripts that were THOUGHT to have been lost in time. Amazing how the muslim rulers were prone to keep and preserve the arts and culture of the past; they did have respect for past societies, as most anthropologist and historians conclude.
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Here are also the things the muslims contributed to science and technology:
Did you know that hospitals, as we know them today, were first established by early Muslims. They offered the best available medical service at that time and cared for all people free of charge. Muslims are honour-bound to provide treatment for the sick, whoever they may be.
The first organised hospital was built in Cairo in 872CE. The Ahmad ibn Tûlûn Hospital treated and gave free medicine to all patients. It provided separate bath houses for men and women, a rich library and a section for the insane.
Patients deposited their street clothes with the hospital authorities for safe keeping, before donning special ward clothes and being assigned to their beds. Each patient would also have his or her own medical record.
Hospitals like these flourished as Muslim rulers competed to see who could construct the most dvanced centres. They spread all over the Muslim world reaching Sicily and North Africa.The earliest Muslim hospitals were funded by charitable religious endowments, called waqf, and some money from the state coffers was also used to maintain some hospitals.
Hospital Zone Highlights
Learn about the cutting-edge surgeon Al-Zahrawi, known in the west as Abulcasis.
Al-Zahrawi introduced more than 200 surgical tools in his medical encyclopaedia. He included illustrations and detailed information on how and when each instrument was to be used.
Did you know that nearly every medical book by Muslims a thousand years ago covered some aspect of eye diseases?
Muslim ophthalmologists of the 10th to 13th centuries were performing operations, dissecting, discovering, and writing about their findings in textbooks and monographs.
See the many different medical journals written 1000 years ago that still exist today.
Muslim medics wrote voluminous handbooks, many of which were translated into Latin. One of these was the ‘Canon’ by Ibn Sina, which remained a primary reference for centuries.
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Did you know that the Arabic word for mosque is Jami' and the Arabic for university is Jami'a? A thousand years ago the first universities emerged within mosques where religion and science sat comfortably side by side.
Building on knowledge from Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese and Indian Civilisations, Muslims developed a learning culture where enquiring minds searched for truths based on scientific rigour and experimentation. In almost every field of knowledge, Muslims made new inventions and discoveries with practical outcomes that helped develop society.
Muslim charitable institutions provided the first scholarships to support students.Courses were difficult and medicine was particularly gruelling, and just like in universities today, examinations were long and difficult.
School Zone Highlights
Explore the unique link between mosques and universities in Islam more than 1000 years ago.
As more and more students attended universities, ijazas, or certificates, were awarded to those who graduated. These ijazas could be the origin of the word ‘baccalareus’. Today the International Baccalaureate is a qualification for international students.
Learn about advances made by Jabir ibn Hayyan’s research in the field of chemistry.
Known in the west as Geber, he is considered to be the founder of chemistry due to his enormous contributions to the field.
Discover the origins of the term chairperson or ‘chair’.
Over a thousand years ago, Muslim schools and universities had study circles with groups of students gathered around a professor who was seated on a chair or kursi. It is this notion that evolved into a professional position, the chairperson
17th century Turkish manuscript showing a Madrasa in Istanbul.
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