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Education would begin at a young age with study of Arabic and the Quran, either at home or in a primary school, which was often attached to a mosque. For the first few centuries of Islam, educational settings were entirely informal, but beginning in the 11th and 12th centuries, the ruling elites began to establish institutions of higher religious learning known as madrasas in an effort to secure support and cooperation of the ulema.

Muslims distinguished disciplines inherited from pre-Islamic civilizations, such as philosophy and medicine, which they called "sciences of the ancients" or "rational sciences", from Islamic religious sciences. The University of Al Karaouine , founded in AD, is arguably the world's oldest degree-granting university.

Islamic "universities" of the Middle Ages were in fact madrasas, centers for the study of religious texts and law. Only after the Arabs came in contact with the institutions of higher learning of the Christian Greek Roman Empire during their conquests did the madrasas begin to teach other subjects as well — but the only degree granted remained that of expert in religious law: The madrasa is one of the relics of the Fatimid caliphate. The Fatimids traced their descent to Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and named the institution using a variant of her honorific title Al-Zahra the brilliant.

Juristic thought gradually developed in study circles, where independent scholars met to learn from a local master and discuss religious topics. The classical theory of Islamic jurisprudence elaborates how scriptures should be interpreted from the standpoint of linguistics and rhetoric. The body of substantive Islamic law was created by independent jurists muftis.

Classical Islamic theology emerged from an early doctrinal controversy which pitted the ahl al-hadith movement, led by Ahmad ibn Hanbal , who considered the Quran and authentic hadith to be the only acceptable authority in matters of faith, against Mu'tazilites and other theological currents, who developed theological doctrines using rationalistic methods. Ibn Sina Avicenna and Ibn Rushd Averroes played a major role in saving the works of Aristotle , whose ideas came to dominate the non-religious thought of the Christian and Muslim worlds.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , translation of philosophical texts from Arabic to Latin in Western Europe "led to the transformation of almost all philosophical disciplines in the medieval Latin world". Avicenna argued his " Floating man " thought experiment concerning self-awareness , in which a man prevented of sense experience by being blindfolded and free falling would still be aware of his existence. Both were concerning autodidacticism as illuminated through the life of a feral child spontaneously generated in a cave on a desert island.

Islamic art makes use of geometric patterns and symmetries in many of its art forms, notably in girih tilings. These are formed using a set of five tile shapes, namely a regular decagon , an elongated hexagon , a bow tie, a rhombus , and a regular pentagon. The tiles are decorated with strapwork lines girih , generally more visible than the tile boundaries. In , the physicists Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt argued that girih from the 15th century resembled quasicrystalline Penrose tilings.

This formula relates the lengths of the sides of any triangle, rather than only right triangles , to the sines of its angles. Alhazen discovered the sum formula for the fourth power, using a method that could be generally used to determine the sum for any integral power. He used this to find the volume of a paraboloid. He could find the integral formula for any polynomial without having developed a general formula.

Ibn al-Haytham Alhazen was a significant figure in the history of scientific method , particularly in his approach to experimentation, [73] [74] [75] [76] and has been described as the "world's first true scientist". Avicenna made rules for testing the effectiveness of drugs, including that the effect produced by the experimental drug should be seen constantly or after many repetitions, to be counted.

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In about AD, the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi , writing in his Book of Fixed Stars , described a "nebulous spot" in the Andromeda constellation , the first definitive reference to what we now know is the Andromeda Galaxy , the nearest spiral galaxy to our galaxy.

Alhazen played a role in the development of optics. One of the prevailing theories of vision in his time and place was the emission theory supported by Euclid and Ptolemy , where sight worked by the eye emitting rays of light, and the other was the Aristotelean theory that sight worked when the essence of objects flows into the eyes. Alhazen correctly argued that vision occurred when light, traveling in straight lines, reflects off an object into the eyes. Al-Biruni wrote of his insights into light, stating that its velocity must be immense when compared to the speed of sound.

Al-Kindi warned against alchemists attempting the transmutation of simple, base metals into precious ones like gold in the ninth century. Al-Biruni — estimated the radius of the earth as In the cardiovascular system , Ibn al-Nafis in his Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon was the first known scholar to contradict the contention of the Galen School that blood could pass between the ventricles in the heart through the cardiac inter-ventricular septum that separates them, saying that there is no passage between the ventricles at this point.

The Commentary was rediscovered in the twentieth century in the Prussian State Library in Berlin; whether its view of the pulmonary circulation influenced scientists such as Michael Servetus is unclear. In the nervous system , Rhazes stated that nerves had motor or sensory functions, describing 7 cranial and 31 spinal cord nerves. He assigned a numerical order to the cranial nerves from the optic to the hypoglossal nerves.

He classified the spinal nerves into 8 cervical , 12 thoracic , 5 lumbar , 3 sacral , and 3 coccygeal nerves. He used this to link clinical signs of injury to the corresponding location of lesions in the nervous system. Modern commentators have likened medieval accounts of the "struggle for existence" in the animal kingdom to the framework of the theory of evolution. They are close to animals by their habits, deeds and behavior. Ibn Khaldun is regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern sociology , [n 1] historiography , demography , [n 1] and economics.

The earliest known Islamic hospital was built in in Baghdad by order of Harun Al-Rashid, and the most important of Baghdad's hospitals was established in by the Buyid ruler 'Adud al-Dawla. The typical hospital was divided into departments such as systemic diseases, surgery, and orthopedics, with larger hospitals having more diverse specialties. Every department had an officer-in-charge, a presiding officer and a supervising specialist. The hospitals also had lecture theaters and libraries. Hospitals staff included sanitary inspectors, who regulated cleanliness, and accountants and other administrative staff.

For less serious cases, physicians staffed outpatient clinics. Cities also had first aid centers staffed by physicians for emergencies that were often located in busy public places, such as big gatherings for Friday prayers. The region also had mobile units staffed by doctors and pharmacists who were supposed to meet the need of remote communities. The first hospital built in Egypt, in Cairo's Southwestern quarter, was the first documented facility to care for mental illnesses.

In Aleppo 's Arghun Hospital, care for mental illness included abundant light, fresh air, running water and music.

Medical students would accompany physicians and participate in patient care. Hospitals in this era were the first to require medical diplomas to license doctors. The test had two steps; the first was to write a treatise, on the subject the candidate wished to obtain a certificate, of original research or commentary of existing texts, which they were encouraged to scrutinize for errors. The second step was to answer questions in an interview with the chief medical officer.

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Physicians worked fixed hours and medical staff salaries were fixed by law. For regulating the quality of care and arbitrating cases, it is related that if a patient dies, their family presents the doctor's prescriptions to the chief physician who would judge if the death was natural or if it was by negligence, in which case the family would be entitled to compensation from the doctor.

The hospitals had male and female quarters while some hospitals only saw men and other hospitals, staffed by women physicians, only saw women. Hospitals were forbidden by law to turn away patients who were unable to pay. The hospital shall keep all patients, men and women, until they are completely recovered. All costs are to be borne by the hospital whether the people come from afar or near, whether they are residents or foreigners, strong or weak, low or high, rich or poor, employed or unemployed, blind or sighted, physically or mentally ill, learned or illiterate.

There are no conditions of consideration and payment, none is objected to or even indirectly hinted at for non-payment. By the ninth century, there was a rapid expansion of private pharmacies in many Muslim cities.

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Initially, these were unregulated and managed by personnel of inconsistent quality. Decrees by Caliphs Al-Ma'mun and Al-Mu'tasim required examinations to license pharmacists and pharmacy students were trained in a combination of classroom exercises coupled with day-to-day practical experiences with drugs. To avoid conflicts of interest, doctors were banned from owning or sharing ownership in a pharmacy.

Pharmacies were periodically inspected by government inspectors called muhtasib , who checked to see that the medicines were mixed properly, not diluted and kept in clean jars. Violators were fined or beaten. The theory of Humorism was largely dominant during this time. Arab physician Ibn Zuhr provided proof that scabies is caused by the itch mite and that it can be cured by removing the parasite without the need for purging, bleeding or other treatments called for by humorism, making a break with the humorism of Galen and Ibn Sina.

On hygienic practices, Rhazes, who was once asked to choose the site for a new hospital in Baghdad, suspended pieces of meat at various points around the city, and recommended building the hospital at the location where the meat putrefied most slowly. Sometimes, past scholars were criticized, like Rhazes who criticized and refuted Galen's revered theories, most notably, the Theory of Humors and was thus accused of ignorance. During the 15th and 16th centuries alone, The Canon of Medicine was published more than thirty-five times.

It was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe.

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Al-Zahrawi was a tenth century Arab physician. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of surgery". Apart from the Nile , Tigris , and Euphrates , navigable rivers were uncommon in the Middle East, so transport by sea was very important. Navigational sciences were highly developed, making use of a rudimentary sextant known as a kamal. When combined with detailed maps of the period, sailors were able to sail across oceans rather than skirt along the coast.

Muslim sailors were also responsible for reintroducing large, three-masted merchant vessels to the Mediterranean. Many Muslims went to China to trade, and these Muslims began to have a great economic influence on the country. The 13th century Persian poet Rumi wrote some of the finest Persian poetry and is still one of the best selling poets in America. Manuscript illumination was an important art, and Persian miniature painting flourished in the Persianate world.

Calligraphy , an essential aspect of written Arabic , developed in manuscripts and architectural decoration. The Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia , the ancestor of all the mosques in the western Islamic world excluding Turkey and the Balkans, [] is one of the best preserved and most significant examples of early great mosques. Founded in , it dates in its present form largely from the 9th century. The Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq was completed in Unfortunately, this material is often not fully digested and sometimes consists of nothing more than name-dropping.

If falsafa and Islam are these two extremes, then Said should rethink what he is saying here: I think the whole idea of an opposition, although widespread in earlier literature on this igure, is misleading and inevitably entails a mischaracterization of his attitude toward both falsafa and Islam. However, he stresses that that truth needs to be accessed via a process of understanding fahm, p.

Reports on these salaf are thus treated almost as revelation, which means that, like revelation, understanding them inevitably requires the use of rationalism. Hence every reader of holy texts is a rationalist to a greater or lesser degree, even Ahmad ibn Hanbal p. Said refers too often to existing English translations when he should have presented the original Arabic.

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