by Usman Abdul-Quayum, Suleman Jehanger, Ayan Adnan Shaukat, Imran Ali, Asim Yusuf | Aug 30, 2026
Abstract This poster explores the early descriptions of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a historical text, by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, a polymath from the 9th century CE. Al-Balkhi’s work provides one of the earliest systematic accounts of OCD-like symptoms,...
by Abdulnaser Kaadan, MD, PhD, Professor of History of Medicine, Weber State University, Ogden, UT-USA. Honorary president of ISHIM (www.ishim.net). | Aug 30, 2026
Abstract Al-Razi is considered the first who described what is called now Baker’s cyst, which is attributed to the English surgeon William Baker (1839-1896) who described it in 1877. He mentioned the necessity of removing the patella (patellectomy) in cases of...
by Khan, S.Z. | Apr 29, 2026
Abstract Prior to the 9th century, arithmetic practices in Islamic lands relied on placeholders such as dots and spaces, limiting precision in pharmacological dosing, surgical measurement, and diagnostic recording [4,6,7]. The adoption of zero (ṣifr), formalised...
by Majed Chamsi-Pasha, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha | Apr 29, 2026
Abstract Background: Prophetic medicine encompasses health-related guidance derived from the Qur’an and the teachings of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) concerning nutrition, hygiene, disease prevention, and balanced living. Although articulated more than fourteen centuries...
by Sarish Zaitha Khan | Dec 30, 2025
Abstract Between the 8th and 16th centuries CE, medieval Islamic medicine synthesised Greek humoral theory, Persian hospital infrastructure, and Indian pharmacological traditions into an empirically grounded medical system (2). This study applied a triangulated...
