The curriculum and education of medicine after Galen in Alexandria, Egypt

Berrin Okka; Mustafa Demirci

Abstract

In the medieval history of Islamic medicine sources, there is a lot of information regarding the translation of the books on the Alexandria Medical School and regarding the bibliographies of doctors. Among the books that were taught in Alexandria Medical School, Galen's works are the most important. One of the famous translators, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, has made a full bibliographic list of Galen's works. Galen's corpus consisted of 16 books in summary. This corpus is called ‘Jawami al-Iskandaraniyyin’. These books consisted of 7 training stages. The data on our research show that this corpus that was brought together during the last period of the Alexandria Medical School has been passed on to the Muslims as a whole, and has continued to be taught in a way according to the old traditions.

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