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End date: 1969 × Start date: 1962 × Type: PhD thesis × Subject: 13th century ×

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    The Arabian system of medicine in the thirteenth century: as shown in the Mūjiz al-Qānūn of `Alī ibn Abī 'l-Ḥazm ibn al-Nafīs al-Qurashī ...
    Young, Michael John Lewis ( 1962)
    The present dissertation is an attempt to show the main features of Arabian medicine in the thirteenth century A.D. The thirteenth century was of crucial importance in the change in the intellectual balance between Islam and Christemdom. ‘During the second half of the twelfth century the contributions of the Christians, Muslims and Jews were substantially equal. By the middle of the thirteenth century that equality was entirely disrupted in favour of Christendom’ (G.Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, Baltimore, 1931, Vol. II, Pt. 2, p. 485). The thirteenth century saw the destruction of the greatest seat of learning in the East, Baghdad, and the rise of the universities in the West. It saw the end of the intellectual efflorescence of Islam. The attempt is made here to present the Arabian system of medicine as it was at the end, therefore, of at least four centuries of vigorous and in some ways progressive existence. (From Preface)