Medical Science and Researches in the Golden Age of Medieval Islam

Abstract

In the Golden Age of Mediaeval Islam-that begins in the 10th century and continues until the middle of 13th century-a great deal of researches and practices had marked in mediaeval science, as well as in other sciences. The emergences of this development owed to many factors and, of course, to Abbasids in Iraq, Andalusian Muslims in Spain and Fatimids in Egypt as well. Here we should remember the contributions of Kalbids and Fatimids founded by North African Muslim and Berber conquerors. During their sovereignties, while many Muslim and non-Muslim physicians were healing their patients, they wrote a lot books. Besides, in the same era, treatment methods, nearly the same level as those of Modern scientific medicine, were applied in hospitals, called Daru 1-Merda, Daru's-Sifa and Bimaristan, in many Islam cities such as Baghdad, Mosul, Cairo, Damascus, Qayrawan (Kairouan), Palermo, Cordoba. This study aims to focus on medicine science and its development stages in the Golden Age of Mediaeval Islam and reach a conclusion with an assessment.