Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries. Although he is currently the most prominent figure in Islamic medicine in ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobles in A.D. 958. Their motive, even by the turbulent politics of the day, was an unusual one ...

Users on Twitter describe how the Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as "un-Islamic". In a post to over 120,000 followers on the social messaging service Telegram ...

Hippocrates's methods were adopted by doctors across Europe and the Islamic world long after his death. An engraving of the doctor, Galen. He was Greek by birth but practiced medicine in Ancient Rome.

Friday night, Muslims around the world will begin observing the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. During this month, Muslims (and non-Muslims who want to participate ...

During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad became the centre for science, medicine, maths and more! This early Islamic period is sometimes called the Golden Age of Islam because there ...