Sunday Journal-Islamic Medicine

"The advanced Medicine we pratice today is Islamic Medicine" Prof. Syed Hosain Nasr, speaking at a conference of Institute of International Islamic Medicine (IIIM), an arm of Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA). He gave his reasons for that statement and I have tended to agree with that, especially when you consider the progress of the medical sciences during the last 300 to 400 years.
That was a first major event of IIIM, a course in Islamic Medicine was offered and teachers/speakers included such highly distinguished scholars of Islamic Medicine, like Prof. Sami K. Hamaneh (Renowned historian of Islamic Medicine during his stay in the Smithsonian Institute) and (now) the Late Hakim Mohammad Saeed, well-known physician-philanthropist who claims to posses three million original documents of Islamic Medicine.
We thoroughly enjoyed the two day event in the spring of 1995 in Florida. The morning after the scientific sessions had ended, we sat down at the breakfast table to evaluate our endeavors. We were all experienced professionals who had all been intimately connected with the progress of IMANA and establishment of IIIM, constituting "the presidential council" of the founding memebers . One of us (Dr. A. R. C. Amine, a well-respected Physician) spoke first, "Did you see that whereas Drs. so-and-so (they were from Christians and Jewish background) only made references in detail of the works of Christian and Jews during the Islamic period mentioning briefly only one or two Muslims during that period such as Ibn Sina or Razi but when Hakim Saeed spoke he gave references of 16-17 Muslim physicians whose contributions were also mentioned by him". He was pin-pointing the stark differences in the approaches that we had all felt acutely during the scientific discourses. We all pledged to dig deeply into the scientific achievements of Muslim Physicians of 8th to 15th centuries in order to bring credit where it rightly belongs.
Dr. Hamarneh is exceptional in that his research is beyond doubt uninfluenced by his background.
Our efforts brought success eventually, when it was clearly recognised by all that the real discoverer of circulation (Including Pulmonary circulation) was Ibn-an-Nafees, in the thirteenth century and not Servetus, or Harvey , in 15th or 16th century, as we were taught in our Medical schools.
Let me invite you to read only one reference about history of sciences by George Sarton and you would know what I am talking about, and the statement of Syed Hosain Nasr, given above.
My own definition of Islamic Medicine, "The advanced Medicine practiced today with limitations prescribed by the Islamic Shariah."