1. Faith and Medicine: Views of Mental Illness in Islamic Medic
... he preached. He fled to Medina in 622 A.D. to escape persecution for his teachings. He called his religion Islam, meaning surrender to God. His message is contained in the holy book, the Koran. After his death in 632 A.D. the spread of Islam became the objective of his followers (Watson, 1991). Islam as a universal principle lies in the nature of creation ... to make the Greek tradition more accessible, understandable, and teachable, Islamic scholars ordered and made more systematic the vast and sometime inconsistent Greco-Roman medical knowledge by writing encyclopedias and summaries (M...
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