Greco‐Arab and Islamic Medicine Practiced Outside the Middle East

Arab and Islamic medicine is widely used in most Arab and Islamic world that forms about one-fifth of the world's population (about 1.4–1.5 billion people). The Arab and Muslim world refers in geopolitical sense to Muslim majority countries or countries in which Islam dominates politically (Tables 10.1 and 10.2). This community is spread across many different nations and ethnic groups connected only by religion (Figure 10.1). Medicine in general is considered to be one of the most illustrious and best-known facets of Arab–Islamic ...