The Pharmacy - from De Materia Medica of Dioscorides.
Arabic translation, Baghdad, Iraq 1224 (621 A.H.)

Class Presentations:  The "Golden Age" of Islam

Reading Assignments:  

•     Seyyid Nasr, "Science and Civilization in Islam" and David W. Tschanz, "The Arab Roots of European Medicine"                   OR
•     Joseph Schacht, "Law and Justice in Islam"
•     Amstrong, pp. 78-111.

• The current Haj in Mecca.  CNN.  BBC

Class Presentation Notes