Medicine During Abbasids Dynasty

Medicine During Abbasids Dynasty
Second line of rules and descendants of Abul Abbas, the first Saracen Caliph of the Eastern Caliphate of Baghdad from AD 750 - 1250.

Abul Abbas on his accession transferred the Caliphate to Bagdad which became a great city of science and literature.

At one time it had 869 licensed physicians with numerous hospitals.

The dynasty of Abbasids included Harun-Al-Rashid, Al-Mansur and Al-Makmum (AD 813-833) who encourage the collection and translation of Greek and Roman medical classics into Arabic.

Their efforts, especially those of Al-Ma’mum, the son of Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, resulted in the preservation of the earlier works of Hippocrates (460 – 377 BC), Galen (AD 129 – 200), Paul of Aegina (625 – 690), Ptolemy and Euclid through turbulent times in history.

Ten of Hippocrates’ works were translated by Hunayan ibn Ishaq or Johannitus (809 -873) and his pupil Isa ibn Yahya and the 16 books of Galen were translated by Hunayan and his pupil, Hubaysh ibn el-Hassan who was also his nephew.
Medicine During Abbasids Dynasty