Islam and Medicine 1: ‘Islamic’ medicine, ‘prophetic’ medicine, and ‘western’ medicine – some principles

A series of circles presented to a group of Muslim medics in the UK, by Shaykh Ridhwan.

In this class, Sh Ridhwan discusses the following topics:

  • the terms ‘Islamic medicine’ and ‘prophetic medicine’ (al-tibb al-nabawiy) are misleading.
  • How traditional ‘Islamic’ medicine was developed from ancient Greek medicine
  • what is ‘prophetic medicine’ really?
  • differences between an Islamic approach to medicine with the modern biomedical model
  • how differences in Islamic and western worldviews impact on the theory and practice of science and medicine