Ibn-al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD) originator of pulmonary circulation.

A t e r t h e c o m i n g o f P r o p h e t Muhammad, the Arabian tribes, in a great burst of expansionist energy, swept over Western Asia and North Africa. They disrupted, but did not destroy the Eastern Roman Empire, which had survived the barbarian onslaughts that had wiped out the empire in the West. The Eastern Empire, particularly after the Arabian conquests, came to be known as Byzantine Empire, after its capital, Byzantium. Occupying Syria and Egypt in C 640 A.D, Arabs fell heir to much of the Greek science and this proved of importance and even beneficial to the history of science. It was essentially the Arabs who were in a position to preserve and transmit the accumulated knowledge of the ancients. Western scholars had maintained that they only translated Greek wisdom but lacked originality. The strange story of Ibn-al-Nafis about circulation demonstrates unsoundness of the assumption about Arabic literature. Ibn-al-Nafis or Al-Qureshi (12101288 AD) was born in Damascus, where Ibn-al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD) Originator of Pulmonary Circulation