ABSTRACT
The era known as Islamic medicine or Arab medicine describes the type of medicine practiced in medieval Islamic civilization that was written in Arabic, which was the ocial language of the Islamic civilization. While Islam originated in Arab civilization, it spread rapidly in the seventh century into a great empire that extended from India in the East to what would become Spain in the West. The point here is that the Islamic world includes many civilizations and people who share the Islamic faith, but are not ethnically of Arab descent. In fact, Islamic medicine includes traces of ancient Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Egyptian, and Persian medicine, in addition to the discoveries made by its own practitioners during the Middle Ages.
