A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: ...

In Baghdad, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) writes the Canon of Medicine, a five-volume work encompassing ... some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C ...

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern culture ...