History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Humorism, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, Gundeshapur
11 Mar 2014
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Lecture summary: history of the rise and spread of islam, development of islamic medicine, practitioners of islamic med. Islamic innovation: transmission to europe, the decline of innovation. The rise of islam (not on exam: muhammad 570-632ce, hijra 622 the year the calendar starts, pre-islamic world: suffered from the justinian plague form of bubonic plague that hit in 6th c nomadic people were less affected. Islam existed for a long period of time because it was versatile and adapted the structures: adoption and adaption, the golden age of islam: the abbasid caliphate. Islamic history: lots of texts, few historians, language barriers, orientalism edward said, 1978, obsessed with comparing middle east to europe, biased because most history academia comes from europe historians. October 23, 2013: when islam spread, it encompassed huge territories (own cultures, laws, tradition etc, each of these territories were synthesised into one, islamic synthesis medicine.
