Physician of Andalusia in history

Research institutions and libraries were plentiful and men in quest of higher knowledge came from afar to learn in the universities of al-Andalus.

As a result, many great intellectual giants in the form of scientists, physicians, and philosophers emerged.

The first great medical school in Europe was founded under Muslim rule in Cordoba, so despite its geographic location it should properly be considered one of the fruits of Arab medicine. The hospital was founded in 1366-67 by Prince Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr. The hospital operate until the fall of Granada.

Leading physicians from al-Andalus include Ibn Juljul, born in Cordoba in the year 943, he began his studies at the age of 14 and within a decade became a highly respected and leading physician. Among his achievements were writing commentaries compiling a list of medicines locally available, and writing a history of Spanish Muslim physician of al-Andalus.

Among the Arabian physicians, there is no one who entitled to the merit of so much originality or of correct observation as Abdel-Malek-Abu Marwan Ibn Zuhr, or known under the name of Avenzoar (1094-1162) . 

Avenzoar would seem to have first described the inflammation of the mediastinum and of the pericardium as well as dropsy and empyema of the latter.

Toward the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century lived in Granada a surgeon by the name Muhammad as-Safra. A short book of surgery is attributed to him. His work tells us the status of surgery in Granada toward the end of the Islamic period.

It was through Cordoba that Arab medical knowledge flowed into Europe. The first translation of the Arab and Greek texts into Latin, which made them available to the rest of Europe, took place here.
Physician of Andalusia in history