AIBSTRACT
His full name is Ala-Uddin Abul Hassan Ali Ben Abil Hazm al-Qurashi
al-Dimashqui, better known as Ibn al-Nafees. He was born in Damascus in 607
Hijri (1210 A.D.).
He studied medicine at al-Nouri al-Kabeer Hospital in Damascus where he
was tutored by the two well-known professors Muhathabul-Din al- Dakhwar and
Omran al-Israili.
Later, he moved to Cairo where he took up medicine as a career,
practising and teaching it. In the latest years of his life, he became the
chief of physicians. He died in Cairo at the age of 80 in 687
Hijri (1288 A.D.).
Ibn al-Nafees was not only a physician but he was a philosopher, a
linguist and a jurisprudent as well.
He was an encyclopaedic type of scientist, so prolific that he was
credited for a voluminous variety of books in various disciplines, especially
in medicine. In his medical writings and researches he followed a special
method based on accurate observation.
He never adopted anything said
by his predecessors until he went through a painstaking process of ascertaining
it. With all due respect to such staunch physicians as
Galinus and Ibn Sina he never hesitated, when necessary, to oppose and
criticise them.
He is, therefore, truly considered one of the pioneers of medical
sciences and a revolutionist who ref:used to blindly follow the same line of
thinking of others or imitate them.
This is what led him to autamatic medical discoveries at the top of
which is the discovery of the pulmonary blood circulation. With this discovery
he scooped such renowned Renaissance scholars in Europe, especially in Italy,
as Servitus, Fesalius.
Columbo and Sesalinu by three centuries. We intend to prove this by
quotations from Ibn al-Nafees's manuscripts available in libraries allover the
world. We shall also prove that these writings had been translated into Latin
since 1547 A.D.
and were later disseminated in the Italian universities which were the
centre of scientific activites during the Renaissance.
We shall also see that the English physician, Harvey, who was the first
to discover the blood circulation in 1628 had been influenced by Ibn
al-Nafees's ideas when he studied medicine at the University of Padova in Italy.
For all this, we can proudly acclaim the Arab and Muslim physician, Ibn
al-Nafees, to be the first and real discoverer of the pulmonary blood
circulation.
As the English translation of the full text could not be made
available, we are publishing here the abstract only.
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