3. Lesson Objectives
To identify the key features of medicine in the Islamic World
To compare and contrast features of Islamic medicine with Western medicine

4. How was the Islamic World different?
600AD followers of the Prophet Muhammad established and enormous new Islamic Empire in the Middle East and North Africa

5. How did Government affect Islamic medicine?
Islamic doctors depended on GOVERNMENT support
Islamic State was a single state ruled over by one man – the Caliph.
Caliphs provided the medical stability needed for medical progress.
Many Caliphs were interested in science

6. Caliph Harun also set up a new major Hospital in Baghdad
Offered treatment to patients whereas Christian hospitals only offered care.
Medical school and library was set up
Hospitals called bimaristans were built in many cities of the Islamic empire

7. Your Task Read Pp44 – 47 Why was the Qur’an important?
What drugs were they using?
How were hospitals run?
Who was Rhazes?
Who was Avicenna?
Who was Abulcasis?
What surgery were they doing?

8. Was Arab medicine more advanced than European medicine?
In the Islamic world, doctors were allowed to question and challenge the ideas of Galen and Hippocrates
Education was highly valued in the Islamic world – this meant that more people could read and write and were able to access medical ideas
Dissection was banned in both areas so little progress was made here

9. Which factor was the most important reason as to why medicine progressed in the Islamic World?