Imagine a nation where every hospital is free of cost irrespective to your status, caste, gender, religion, nationality. A multi-speciality hospital providing you a clothes, well furnished wards, delicious food, specialized doctors, that too free of cost. Not just this even giving the patient money and food as a compensation for being out of work during his hospital stay. Isn't it mind-blowing?? This is what hospitals were in the Islamic Civilization. In early medieval where Europe belief that illness is supernatural, uncontrollable, incurable. Muslims took completely different approach because of the saying of prophet Muhammadﷺ, “God has sent down the disease and he has appointed cure for every disease, so treat yourself medically”(¹) Mobile Dispensaries The first known Islamic care center was set up in a tent by Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah r.a during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammadﷺ. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...
Index Introduction NEUROSCIENCE and PSYCHOLOGY Psychotherapy Neurosurgery Arabs and anesthesia Conclusion Introduction Medicine did not develop overnight. The civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, India, China, and the European Renaissance took up the responsibility of the flame of medical development. During the dark ages when Europe thought mental illness was some demonic possession Muslims were establishing psychiatric clinics and during those dark ages the medical flame was taken up by the Islamic world. Translations of Medical Texts: As Islam expanded out of the Arabian Peninsula in seventh century AD, towards Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, North Africa and Iraq, Arab scholars came acr...