Books of wound and modification as a source for the study of medicine In the first century AH (seventh century AD)

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer - Department of History King Saud University

Abstract

This study focuses on two aspects: The first one  is dealing  with the mental sciences in the Islamic community، which is the science of medicine. It tracks its establishing and  historical development among Muslims in the first century AH (seventh century AD). While the second aspect of this study is concerned in  seeking for the justifications for  this topic by focusing on specific sources، which are modification and wound  books.
It is known that  wound and modification  books are those that  concerned with searching  the conditions of narrators and judging them based on their narrations. Therefore، it is primarily، according to its methodological nature، they  focus on monitoring the science of the noble hadith and its men and everything related to the same topic، and what was mentioned in it from other investigations have been developed to serve this purpose and achieve it، and that - for example - medical science subject of study.
The current  study aims to trace all the studies  monitored about the science of medicine، its history، and its men ... etc.  throughout all the studies are  written by the wound  books’ authors and all the amendment in their works. It is found that  the number of these sources reached (22). The study also aims to explain the similarities and differences between the information on wound and modification sources on the science of medicine comparing to those were  written in the rest of the historical sources. This was highlighted in the completion of the historical sources of the most detectives that were dropped in the sources of the wound and the modification.

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