![]() ![]() The country was only nominally subject to the English crown, whose rule was confined to Dublin and its neighborhood, which was known as the ‘Pale’. A History of Islam: The Second Largest Religion in Today’s World Began With a Divine Revelationĭuring that time, Gaelic learning and literature was being revived by powerful aristocratic patrons.The First Caliphs of Islam: Power, Corruption, War, and Treachery in the Rashidun Caliphate.Traditional African Medicine and its Role in Healing in a Modern World.In the 15th century, there was a class of hereditary Irish physicians whose skills were very respected and it seemed that this was in part because of their learning in Muslim medicine. Irish doctors often went abroad to train and the work by the Persian author was probably brought back from the continent. Prof Ó Macháin states that almost one in four works written in Gaelic at the time were on medical subjects. Most likely the page was from an encyclopedia that was used to train doctors in Ireland. It shows that medicine from the Muslim world was dominant in European societies at the time. The discovery of a translated page credited to Ibn Sīna’s work in an Irish book is a testament to the immense prestige of Islamic learning in 15th century Europe. His ideas on medicine and his insistence on an evidence-based approach to healthcare have been enormously influential to this day. Ibn Sīna wrote many major works on philosophy, logic, theology, astronomy, and science, which decisively influenced, not only the Muslim world but also Europe, as it slowly emerged from the Dark Ages. He was a self-educated genius from Central Asia who flourished in the Islamic Golden Age, a period when Muslims studied the works of Classical Greeks and others and made enormous cultural and intellectual advances. ![]() This immense medical work was written by the famous Persian polymath Ibn Sīna (980-1053 AD), who is known as Avicenna in the West. This work was the “standard medical text in the Islamic world and across Europe, and for more than six centuries the most respected medical textbook in medieval Europe ,” reports The Guardian. ![]() ![]() The Canon of Medicine is in five volumes and provides a complete overview of Islamic medical scholarship and even several hundred medicines. According to the About Islam website, it is a “fragment of a translation into Irish of the ‘Canon of Medicine’ medical encyclopedia.” The page has entries on the nature of the jaws, back, and how the nose functions. The piece of manuscript in the binding was written in Medieval Gaelic and is a translation of Islamic medical work.
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