Unlike medical literature today, which is specialized, in the medieval Islamic world it was integrated with natural science, astrology, alchemy, religion, philosophy and mathematics. Islamic ...

Greek science became the basis for the development ... THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering ...

The Islamic Empire was a time of great innovation, especially in maths, science, and medicine. Arab mathematicians helped to popularise the Indian number system, with its symbol for zero ...

Although there was limited progress in Western Europe in medieval times, there were new discoveries and developments in medicine in the Islamic kingdoms. The work of people like Muhammad ibn ...

Nahyan Fancy did his B.A. from Knox College and his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from University of Notre Dame. His research interests are in medieval Islamic science and medicine, and ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...