abstract islamic medicine is regarded as a comprehensive medical school with a long, glorious and worldwide reputation. some of the physicians of this school are famous worldwide and have contributed valuable services to the scientific world. given the dramatically increasing prevalence of cancer and the relative inefficacy of current medications, there is a great demand for the introduction of...

historically, there is a consensus that islamic medicine followed the persian, greek and egyptian medicine and that a large number of muslim scholars were non-arabs. it is also known that most famous islamic physicians who took their knowledge to arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of gondishapour in iran. therefore, in order to develop a more compreh...

1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Imam Ali Cardiovascular Centre, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Yazd Cardiovascular Research Centre, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran ...

Mohammad Reza Youssefi, Reza Tabaripour, Vahid Fallah Omrani, Adel Spotin, Behzad Esfandiari Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Cellular and Molecular, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Paras...

Kevser Unal, Deny Susanti*, Muhammad Taher Department of Biomedical Science, Kulliyah of Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia Department of Chemistry, Kulliyah of Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Kulliyah of ...

Little is known about the state of experimentation in the field of medicine during the Medieval Islamic era. With few exceptions, most of the contemporary sources on history of medicine propagate the idea that the roots of experimental medicine in its modern form, including clinical trials and drug-potency studies, first started during the European Renaissance in the 16(th) to the 18(th) centur...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

While the practice of Western medicine is known today to doctors of all ethnic and religious groups, its standards are subject to the availability of resources. The medical ethics guiding each doctor is influenced by his/her religious or cultural background or affiliation, and that is where diversity exists. Much has been written about Jewish and Christian medical ethics. Islamic medical ethics...

1M.Sc., Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 2Professor, Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah (a.s.) University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, ...