Explaining the state of medical science and medicine in the Islamic world of the Abbasid era (132-656 AH) and the ways of transferring it to the West (Europe)

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Batool Rabiei ¹ (Phd student of the History of Islamic Civilization and Nations, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran.)
Boshra Delrish ² (Department History and Islamic Civilization, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran.)
Elham Malekzadeh ³ (Department History and Islamic Civilization, University and Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.)
Koorosh Fathi ⁴ (Department History and Islamic Civilization, Pardis Farhangian University Hakim Ferdowsi, Karaj, Iran.)

Received: 2022-12-12 Accepted : 2023-04-03 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Abbasid era, Medicine, the West, Diffusion Theory, Medical knowledge,

Abstract :

As it stands today, medical science did not grow and develop overnight. This science has been formed due to the efforts of millions of people throughout the history of mankind. Meanwhile, the fact is that one of the standard bearers of this sacred responsibility (medical sciences) are Muslims. Muslims, during the Abbasid era, have developed this science more than any other civilization. Therefore, in this article, an attempt has been made to highlight the fact that the Renaissance of Europe is partly indebted to the inventions and discoveries of Islamic medicine of the Abbasid period, and the ways of transferring this science from the East to the West are documentedIn the upcoming research, in order to explain and analyze the progress of medical knowledge in the Abbasid era and the ways of its transfer to the West, the "diffusion theory" is used as the theoretical framework of the work. Based on this, the influential origin in the field of medical knowledge of the Islamic world in the Abbasid era is taken into account, and the influential destination is the Western civilization, and the ways and channels of transmission are mentioned along with its obstacles. The findings of the research show that medical knowledge was one of the first sciences that the Islamic world learned based on the medical data of Iran, India and Greece, and then developed it in the best possible way and spread it to other societies.