Daily Times
July 18, 2021
The contribution of Muslims in the field of medicine was tremendous during the middle ages and the nature of the contributions, remarkable.
Al-Raazi (AD 865-AD 925) was undoubtedly the greatest physician of the Islamic world and one of the greatest physicians of all time. His works were widely translated into Latin under the name, Rhazes, spreading his influence well beyond the boundaries of the Islamic world. Al-Raazi wrote Kitab Al-Mansuri, a 10-volume treatise dealing with Greek medicine, translated into Latin as Liber ad Almansorem. His outstanding work Al-Judari-wal-Hasbah, a book dealing with smallpox and measles is one of the most authentic books on the subject, even to the present day. It was translated into Latin and other European languages and was published more than forty times between AD 1498 and AD 1866. His comprehensive and celebrated work, Al-Hawi runs into 20 volumes. On the order of Charles I, King of Sicily, the Sicilian Jewish physi