Islamic medicine history and current practice

Considerable conifision exists in literature regarding the definition of 'Islamic Medicine'. This is mainly because each author that writes about 'Islamic Medicine 'is actually writing about an aspect of Islamic Medicine. Thus the definition can vary depending upon the perspective. The context can be historical, cultural, scientific, pharmacological, therapeutic, religious or even a geo-political. In this monograph we shall be examining this body of knowledge mainly from its historical, scientific, therapeutic and application viewpoints. The greatest challenge of Islamic Medicine is not in its practice, therapeutics or application but in adaptation to modem day needs. Thus it is my belief that the fundamental challenge is not the way in which Islamic Medicine is practiced but the way in which it is defined

Islamization of medicine

A concept of Islamization of Medicine is presented. Many Islamic sociologists have ascribed to the fact that in the modern day Islamic world, many disciplines of knowledge have veered from Islamic ideologies and developed secular or non- Islamic ideologies in imitation of the West. This has led to decadent and disastrous results in most of these disciplines. In many of these, progress has either halted or is non-existent. As applied to medicine this blind imitation of western ideologies is leading us also into the same problems that are faced by modern medicine in western nations today. It is time that we stopped and looked at this problem with a new and different perspective perhaps an Islamic one