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 ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering lifesaving surgical procedures. Their interest also ...

Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries.

The Islamic Empire was a time of great innovation, especially in maths, science, and medicine. Arab mathematicians helped to popularise the Indian number system, with its symbol for zero ...