This is a wonderful, informative collection of essays tracing the roots of modern medicine back to an Islamic Golden Age. It opens with an insightful, contextualizing essay by Georgetown's Distinguished University Professor, Dr. John Esposito. Dr. Mahmood Hai synthesizes thousands of factoids into a readable, digestible, thoroughly illuminating presentation of a group of tireless physicians and medical philosophers who, between the 7th and 15th centuries, established the practice of medicine. The book includes a long ...
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This is a wonderful, informative collection of essays tracing the roots of modern medicine back to an Islamic Golden Age. It opens with an insightful, contextualizing essay by Georgetown's Distinguished University Professor, Dr. John Esposito. Dr. Mahmood Hai synthesizes thousands of factoids into a readable, digestible, thoroughly illuminating presentation of a group of tireless physicians and medical philosophers who, between the 7th and 15th centuries, established the practice of medicine. The book includes a long-awaited study of Muslim female physicians in Islamic History. The final essay, continuing a millennial trajectory of revolutionary thought and invention, introduces readers to a representative handful of modern Muslim medical professionals and their innovative contributions to various domains of medicine today. Eminent contributors to this book include: Tajuddin Ahmed, MD, FACC; Ramzi Mohammad, MSc, PhD; Hossam E. Fadel, MD, PhD, FACOG; M. Basheer Ahmed, MD, FRCPsy, FRCP; Marium Husain, MD, MPH; Sharif Kafal-Ghazal, MD, MCH.RCS (Plas.), DM, MA; Fatima M. Tourk, BS; Feras Deek, MS; and Azim Shaikh, MD, MBA.
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