BIOGRAPHIES AND SCHOLARS IN QMJ

We have received many requests from colleagues in Qatar and abroad to re-publish the biographies of the Muslim physicians and scientists who contributed to the development of science and medicine as we know it today.

The medical community should rightly be indebted to those and other scholars for their contribution to science, and the least we can do in gratitude is to affirm and acknowledge their painstaking efforts. Many scholars, like William Harvey, have been acknowledged widely, but many other great scientists have not been given due attention and have even been forgotten. Perhaps this is no more true than in the case of Muslim scientists who carried science & medicine and developed brilliant theories and practice through the “Dark Ages”.

To these great scientists who are little mentioned in today’s literature, we dedicate our contribution.

In the coming issues we will re-publish two physicians/scientists in each issue.

IBN SINA "PRINCE OF PHYSICIANS"

AL RAZI "RHAZES"

--Editor in Chief