User:Joyce1379/Early medicine development in islamic empire

Overview

The success and determination of the Umayyads dynasty or Omayyad, the first Islamic empire in the early 661-750 AD, are the representation of what Islamic medicine is being utilized in the modern time. The expansion of the empire led to many conflicts among the Islamic people but improved the empire’s expansion of hospitals because of the resources. There are two major physicians responsible for cultivating the importance of medicine in the early Islamic empire were Al Razi and Albucasis. Al Razi is considere

d to be the “father” of Islamic medicine and the bringing of the Islamic Golden Age. Albucasis is well known for its successful practitioner in surgeons in the Islamic region. Albucasis is remembered as the “father of surgery” and his teaching and practice of surgery are still utilized to this day. Although it is important to acknowledge the early empire and the impact of the two physicians, the primary reason why Islamics developed their medicine is the consequences of the Black Death. The epidemic of the Black Death might have taken many Islamic lives, but it also opened new opportunities for Islamics to advance their knowledge of medicine. Islamic received help from other nations that then used this new understanding of disease and microbes to produce better and more efficient medicine in modern times. The expansion of empires enhanced the empire with many great physicians and the Black Death provided an opportunity for the Islamic empire to grow and thrive in making more effective medicine for the people.

Black Death
The spread of the Black Death in Europe and the Near East (1346–1353)
Status	75,000,000–200,000,000 Deaths (estimated)
Years active	1346–1353

Important Figures

When researching the early development of medicine in Islamic, the most prominent figure that leads Islamic medicine is Al Razi. His contribution to the development of the Islamic medicine is considered historic. The scientist Rhazes encouraged experimentation and observation, as well as the scientific method. During the selection process for building a hospital in Baghdad, he asked his assistants to hang meat at several sites around the city in order to minimize the amount of rotting meat. Near a spot where putrefaction occurs, there would be fewer chances for the patients to get sick. During most of his career, he was the director of this hospital, where he conducted most of his research on Islamic medicine. He wrote in depth about the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, stating that both parties should establish a trusting relationship, while the patient is responsible for following the doctor's instructions. Integrative medicine would be a process that takes into consideration a patient's background as well as his or her close relatives' illnesses. Further, Rhazes was the first to see symptoms as causing something instead of merely describing them as symptoms, which was previously considered the case. In the case of smallpox and measles, he blamed the blood, since he knew nothing about microbes. Due to the Islamic prohibition of dissection, Al Razi was unable to enhance his understanding of the human nervous

system and brain, as well as his studies of human physiology. Another prominent figure in the development of medicine in Islamic is Abu Al Oasiam Al Zharawi or Albucasis. Albucasis is regarded as the “father of surgeons” and he is celebrated for his contribution to surgeons and medicine in Europe and Islamic.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi al-Ansari
Born	936 CE
Died	1013 (aged 76–77)
Era	The Islamic Golden Age

National History

The Umayyad dynasty was the first Muslim dynasty to rule the empire of the caliphate, it is sometimes known as the Arab Kingdom. The Syrian army is the strength of Umayyad that gives the Umayyad control over Arab tribal rivalries. The empire expanded across Central Asia, northwestern India, and northwest Africa. This expansion of empires brings much division across the Umayyad empire. A civil war was one obvious result of the empire expansion and another factor being the plague across the Middle East. These conflicts in the empire resulted in the death of many Islamic lives. However, the expansion provides the opportunity for Muslims to build hospitals. Hospitals in Islamic are different from different countries in the Middle East. The charity of many Christian foundations active in the Islamic land after the plurality of medical centers that were served in the Islamic land was the inspiration of the first Islamic hospital foundations. The economic and social differences shaped the demand of how many hospitals were needed and built. In the case of Islamic, the demand for hospitals in early Islamic history was determined by the effectiveness of the hospital. Since most Islamic people originated from poverty, the demand for hospitals was not necessary due to the fact that most populations in Islamic were poor and could not afford to stay in the hospital. Thus, this resulted in demands for hospitals in Islamic was less significantly less than other countries like Western Europeans. This changes when one major event in the world hits every nation.