ABSTRACT
The medical school of the Western Caliphate was both medically and philosophically antagonistic to Avicenna, who is usually regarded as the chief representative of Arabian Medicine. The Arabic writings that emanated from the Cordovan centre of Islam showed a modification, owing to its intimate contact with the Christian West, and the medical and philosophical literature issued by the Christians and Jews of Moslem Spain is based more on the practical realities and attach less importance to dialectic vanities.
