Islam Creator of the Modern Age
3. Muslim Contribution to Science
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The Muslims arriving at the correct hypothesis of
the solar system’s functioning was made possible
only because Islam had broken down the walls of
conditioned thinking which had acted as a barrier
to man’s intellectual progress. As soon as this
artificial barrier was out of the way, the caravan of
human thought began to move on its journey with a
hitherto unimaginable rapidity. And thus it brought
us finally to the spectacular scientific feats of the
present century.
MEDICINE
Just as diseases have afflicted man in every age, so
has the science of medicine always existed in one
form or the other. In ancient times, however, the
science of medicine never reached the heights of
progress that it did in the Islamic era and also
latterly, in modern times.
It is believed that the beginning of the science of
medicine—a beginning to be reckoned with-was
made in ancient Greece. The two very great
physicians who were born in ancient Greece were
Hippocrates and Galen. Hippocrates lived in the
