The Historiography of Islam, with Special Reference to the Development of Arabic Medical and Philosophical Literature

The Arabian Period constitutes a most romantic chapter in the history of medicine, and is of great historical interest. The latter decades of the sixth and the first two of the seventh century were marked by an excess of idolatry, and with the advent of the Prophet Mahomet who preached that there is one God and that the figuring in sculpture of the human figure was not to be tolerated, the warring tribes of Arabia Felix rapidly became welded into a single people under one religious and military commander.