Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Islamic History

The first thing that most people think when they hear the word Islam that Islam ia religion of killing, Terrorism, and distorting. In fact, that is not true, and it is completely unfair. In the past, the Islamic world achieved many accomplishments and a lot of contributions in many areas like Art, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Science, Agriculture, Geography, navigation. I am going to focus on one important field that the Muslims have excelled in it which is: medicine.
Many advances were made in the field of medicine for example, physicians and pharmacists were required to pass exams before treating patients because the medical officials wanted to make sure that any one want to treat people should have the highest specifications. Also, they set up hospitals that had separate areas for trauma cases, and this became the basis for today's emergency rooms. In addition, there are many other famous Islamic examples like:
Ibn-Sina, helped lay the foundations for modern medicine, and also he wrote a book called canon on Medicine. This book became the standard medical text in Europe for over five hundred years.
Abu-al Qasim, helped lay the foundations for modern surgery, and he invented numerous surgical instruments.
Ibn-al Haytham, made an important advances in eye surgery.
Ibn-al Nafis, aid the foundations for circulatory physiology. He was the first person who describe pulmonary and coronary circulation, and he was considered " the greatest Physiologist of the middle Ages.”
Muslims rose to the height of civilization in a period of four decades. for more then 1,000 years the Islamic Civilization remained the most advanced and progressive in the world. This is because Islam stressed the importance of and held great respect of learning, forbade destruction, developed discipline and respect for authority, and stressed tolerance for other religions.