Elaine van Dalen
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It is great that awesome scholars such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) get public attention. But it is a shame that it often happens in such a nonfactual and nonsensical fashion.
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Women played important roles in health care in the classical Islamic world.A thread on female health practitioners(Illustration: BnF ms Arabe 5847, fol 122b, painted in 1237) Women in the medieval
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What mandrakes look like in the movie & what they look like in Arabic & Persian copies of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica(Bl Ms Or 3366, Baghdad 14th century) (NY, NPL,
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How to easily memorize large amounts of medical information? Make it rhyme! Medical poetry was popular in the Classical Islamic World and many copies survive today. A small thread on
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A few days ago I tweeted a picture of a clock in Germany with an illustration of ʿAlī Ibn Riḍwān. Who was he?A thread on a pretty fascinating Egyptian physician.
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This idea is going round on the internet, but it is not true. Ibn Sina upheld the possibility of disease transmission for certain diseases, but he did not introduce the
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