This program investigates the practice of medicine during the Abbasid Caliphate, offering profiles of Jurjis ibn Jibrail, personal doctor to Caliph al-Mansur; Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, head of Caliph al-Ma'amun's House of Wisdom; Rhazes, whose Kitab al-hawi outlines an exemplary clinical approach; Avicenna, universally known for his Canon of Medicine; and Abul Qasim al-Zahrawi, the father of modern surgery. The Islamic concern with the relationship between the body and the soul is also discussed, as is the founding of hospitals, one of the great achievements of Islamic society. (Portions in French with English subtitles)

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Avicenna, 980-1037, Razi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi, d. 1013?, Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos, Medicine, Arab--Islamic Empire--History, Hospitals--Islamic Empire--History, Psychiatric hospitals--Islamic Empire--History, Diseases--Islamic Empire--History, Islamic civilization, Libraries--Iraq--Baghdad--History, Islamic Empire--Civilization, Islamic Empire--History--750-1258, World history, Health and medicine, Abbasids

When the world spoke Arabic: the golden age of Arab civilization

Jacquart, Danielle, Alvarez de Morales y Ruiz-Matas, Camilo, Hretani, Mahmoud, Abed, Bourhan, Hussein, Mahmoud (Author of screenplay, etc.), Calderon, Philippe (Director), Barrett, Paul (Narrator), FIT Production (Firm), Cinquieme (Firm), Canal Sur Television (Firm), Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

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English, French

Higher education

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