Islamic Medicine

Islamic Medicine

Edited by Dr. Shahid Athar

Historical Notes

The JIMA believes not only in the revivalism and fine establishment of the tenets of the Islamic faith within the individual and within Muslim society but also in restoration, review, research and compilation of the knowledge of the brilliant past of Islamic Medicine. We have proposed to several Islamic countries to open a department of Islamic Medicine in their medical schools as well as to establish an Institute of Islamic Medicine for gathering extent works of great Hakims of the past, to translate them, to do clinical and laboratory research on their empirical findings and their vast Pharmacopoeia.

To this end, we have obtained permission first to publish in parts the translation by Martin Levey of Adab al-Tabib of Al-Ruhawi's "Practical ethics of the physicians" which was printed by the American Philosophical Society as the Transactions of APS, vol. 57, part 3, 1967, Philadelphia.

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