Muslim doctors

This is a sub-article to Muslim scientists and a parallel article to Islamic medicine.

A Muslim doctor is a doctor that professes Islam and/or is engaged in Islamic medicine.

List

• Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
• Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873), pioneer of pharmacology^[1]
• Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman) (810-887)
• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of medical encyclopedia^[2]
• Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
• Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), pioneer of peer review and medical peer review^[3]
• Abul Hasan al-Tabari - phys

Fr hashmiician

• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
• Ibn Al-Jazzar
• Rhazes (Al Razi), also a chemist
• Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (d. 994), pioneer of obstetrics and perinatology^[4]
• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery, and pioneer of neurosurgery,^[5] craniotomy,^[4] hematology^[6] and dental surgery^[7]
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), pioneer of eye surgery, visual system^[8] and visual perception^[9]
• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) - father of modern medicine,^[10] founder of Unani medicine,^[6] pioneer of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacology,^[11] aromatherapy,^[12] pulsology and sphygmology,^[13] and also a philosopher
• Ibn Miskawayh
• Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - father of experimental surgery,^[14] and pioneer of experimental anatomy, experimental physiology, human dissection, autopsy^[15] and tracheotomy^[16]
• Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
• Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
• Averroes
• Ibn al-Baitar
• Mehmet Oz Famous American-Turkish heart surgeon, the founder and chairman of HealthCorps
• Nasir al-Din Tusi
• Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), father of circulatory physiology, pioneer of circulatory anatomy,^[17] and founder of Nafisian anatomy, physiology,^[18] pulsology and sphygmology^[19]
• Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
• Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374)
• Mansur ibn Ilyas
• Frederick Akbar Mahomed (d. 1884), made substantial contributions to study of hypertension and process of clinical trials^[20]
• Saghir Akhtar - pharmacist
• Toffy Musivand
• Samuel Rahbar
• Muhammad B. Yunus, the "father of our modern view of fibromyalgia"^[21]
• Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space^[22][23]
• Hakim Muhammad Said - specialist in Unani medicine, author.
• Ibrahim B. Syed - radiologist
• Nizam Peerwani
• Abdul Qayyum Rana,Canadian Neurologist known for his work on Parkinson's disease

References

1. ^ Felix Klein-Frank (2001), Al-Kindi, in Oliver Leaman and Hossein Nasr, History of Islamic Philosophy, p. 172. Routledge, London.
2. ^ Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", Journal of Religion and Health 43 (4): 357-377 [375].
3. ^ Ray Spier (2002), "The history of the peer-review process", Trends in Biotechnology 20 (8), p. 357-358 [357].
4. ^ ^{a b} Ezzat Abouleish, "Contributions Of Islam To Medicine", in Shahid Athar (1993), Islamic Perspectives in Medicine, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
5. ^ Martin-Araguz, A.; Bustamante-Martinez, C.; Fernandez-Armayor, Ajo V.; Moreno-Martinez, J. M. (2002). "Neuroscience in al-Andalus and its influence on medieval scholastic medicine", Revista de neurología 34 (9), p. 877-892.
6. ^ ^{a b} Patricia Skinner (2001), Unani-tibbi, Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
7. ^ Henry W. Noble, PhD (2002), Tooth transplantation: a controversial story, History of Dentistry Research Group, Scottish Society for the History of Medicine.
8. ^ Bashar Saad, Hassan Azaizeh, Omar Said (October 2005). "Tradition and Perspectives of Arab Herbal Medicine: A Review", Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2 (4), p. 475-479 [476]. Oxford University Press.
9. ^ Bradley Steffens (2006). Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, Chapter 5. Morgan Reynolds Publishing. ISBN 1599350246.
10. ^ Cas Lek Cesk (1980). "The father of medicine, Avicenna, in our science and culture: Abu Ali ibn Sina (980-1037)", Becka J. 119 (1), p. 17-23.
11. ^ David W. Tschanz, MSPH, PhD (August 2003). "Arab Roots of European Medicine", Heart Views 4 (2).
12. ^ Marlene Ericksen (2000). Healing with Aromatherapy, p. 9. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0658003828.
13. ^ Rachel Hajar (1999), "The Greco-Islamic Pulse", Heart Views 1 (4), pp. 136-140 [138-140].
14. ^ Rabie E. Abdel-Halim (2006), "Contributions of Muhadhdhab Al-Deen Al-Baghdadi to the progress of medicine and urology", Saudi Medical Journal 27 (11): 1631-1641.
15. ^ Islamic medicine, Hutchinson Encyclopedia.
16. ^ A. I. Makki. "Needles & Pins", AlShindagah 68, January-February 2006.
17. ^ Chairman's Reflections (2004), "Traditional Medicine Among Gulf Arabs, Part II: Blood-letting", Heart Views 5 (2), p. 74-85 [80].
18. ^ Nahyan A. G. Fancy (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (died 1288)", pp. 3 & 6, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame.[1]
19. ^ Nahyan A. G. Fancy (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (died 1288)", pp. 224-228, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame.[2]
20. ^ O'Rourke, Michael F. (1992). "Frederick Akbar Mahomed". Hypertension (American Heart Association) 19: 212–217 [212]. 
21. ^ John B. Winfield (2007), "Fibromyalgia and Related Central Sensitivity Syndromes: Twenty-five Years of Progress", Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 36 (6): 335-338.
22. ^ theStar (2007). "Tapping into space research". TheStar. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/22/nation/18514133&sec=nation. Retrieved September 22, 2007. 
23. ^ theStar (2007). "Mission in space". TheStar. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/10/11/nation/19136025&sec=nation. Retrieved October 2007 13. 

See also

• List of Muslim scholars
• List of people by belief
• List of Muslims