Avicenna: The Canon Of Medicine
Mohammed Alfakhri
0982745
HIST*1250*01
Dr. Abraham
Emma Dowling
November 24th, 2016
To the Exhibit Approval Board,
Maintaining historical artifacts is greatly important for our humanity because they are evolutionary evidence of what design and shapes our world today. Exhibiting these evidence shows what our technology has developed on. Without this historical information, todays depth of technology and science would have showed different thing than now. Ibn sina, or Avicenna as Western Europe know him, was the Persian polymath of the golden ages of Islam. Ibn sina has made great improvement to natural philosophy. He wrote many books and texts optics and medicine and others, however, “his most important work was the Canon of Medicine. The canon is a huge encyclopaedia. The
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Through the 6th to 15th Centuries, Western Europe was going through massive amount of knowledge. Muslim scholars took the European knowledge and developed it using their own skills. During the 8th Century, the Muslim Empire reached Spain, and brought many things back with them. The Islamic Empire brought new crops, urbanization, but the most important part is knowledge which is yet unknown to the Western world during that time. The book reviled to Western Europe new methods and knowledge in the field of medicine in a time where medicine was frozen and not improving. “ Al Qanun fi Tibb became one of the most important sources of medical knowledge. It was both a translation of and a commentary on Galenic medicine and contains what is perhaps the first discussion of mental illness as a form of disease.” This book had great part of the golden age of Islam and led Western Europe to what it is now. And many historians argue that the golden age of Islam opened the way for Europe’s