Muslim Medicine

Those who practice medicine work in cities of Islamic Culture. Muslims were the educators of science and medicine, people look to them with advice during training. In order for physicians to keep medicine as a profession they must first pass a series of strict examinations. Muslim holy men were called Sheikhs, they practices both spiritual and physical healing. Muslim physicians would turn to sheikhs or wise women when they were unable to fund a cure to the problem or the matters weren’t as serious. These healers would use a combination of herbs, ancient superstition, and religion as aspects to help cure a patient. Hisba is and office held by the muhtasib and was established by Muslim Caliphs. The muhtasib oversaw the selling of drugs and
These men who were chosen were given very generous salaries. The Black Death was recognized as taun by the Islamic physicians. Taun was defined as “a type of pestilence” by Theologian and physician Al-Jawziyyah. Pestilence means “quickness and commonness of death among men” during the early Islamic works of medicine. From the ninth century texts wrote that "The Extension of Life by Purifying the Air of Corruption and Guarding against the Evil Effects of Pestilence," written by a Egyptian Al-Timini First Pandemic. Astrological medicine was widely accepted by Al-Khatib and Ibn Khatimah during their practices and writings. Ibn Khatimah wrote "An art which through research and experiment has arisen with the object of maintaining the natural temperament, and of restoring it to him who has lost it” about medicine. Some people like Al-Khatib denied that these people effects have anything to do with the practices of medicine but also accepted the fact that the planets and stars would influence people. Victims were found dead when they were sacrificed to the legalistic decisions of religious teachers and lawyers was a fact lamented by Al-Khatib. They both agreed that contagion was the cause of the spread of the