Medical Science

Ibn Sina (980-1037 CE), known in the Latin West as Avicenna, was the most influential physician and philosopher of the medieval Islamic world. His Canon of Medicine dominated medical education for six centuries, while his philosophical works shaped both Islamic and European thought.

Islamic medicine was among the most significant traditions of the medieval world. Building on Greek, Persian, and Indian foundations, its physicians developed the public hospital, produced the era's most comprehensive medical encyclopedias, and transmitted a transformed practice to Europe.