Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
At the age of 29, a physician in Cairo dared to say that Galen and Ibn Sina were wrong — blood does not pass through the wall of the heart, but through the lungs. The thirty-first book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Ibn al-Nafis: chief physician of the Mansuri Hospital, Shafi‘i jurist, and endower of knowledge whose discovery was rediscovered in 1924. “And in yourselves.”
“And in yourselves. Then will you not see?”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of medicine & anatomy
Preachers, teachers & counsellors
The story of Ibn al-Nafis — verses 51:21 and 22:46, two authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, a pulmonary circulation chart, history notes marked separately, and a table of popular stories.