Scholars of Pure Sciences Between Baghdad and The Islamic East During the Abbasid Era in the Sixth Century AH
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Abstract
The development of the Islamic East played a major role in public life in the Arab Islamic state in all its aspects, clearly in scientific life and more clearly in the field of pure sciences. A large number of these scholars excelled in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and mathematical sciences such as mathematics, algebra, geometry, arithmetic, and astronomy. These scholars have played a major role in serving the state and society alike, without any discrimination or differentiation between the people or the cities they moved to in various parts of the Arab Islamic state, from treating people or dispensing medicines to them. A large number of them also created theories and solutions to many matters in life. People to facilitate their affairs in their various daily dealings, most notably construction matters and precise engineering calculations for that. Many of them also had good relations with the Caliphate for those of them who were in Baghdad, and with the governors, princes, and leaders of those who were in the regions and cities. The research touched on the subject of pure sciences and included medical sciences such as medicine, pharmacy, hospitals and medicines, and highlighted those who practiced these humanitarian professions. And their writings, as well as the mathematical sciences and the most prominent scholars who studied them in their various types, and the writings that they classified and remained studied for many centuries in Europe and other countries, without any change in their contents. The research included the title and introduction, followed by a summary in Arabic and English, while the first section included the role of Levantine scholars in the sciences of medicine and pharmacy, and included the most prominent doctors and pharmacists, the most important hospitals they opened and worked in, and the most prominent pharmacy stations, while the second section included scholars of pure sciences, including mathematics, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and interviewing. The scholars highlighted their most important works, the observatories and scientific centers they established for the public service of the state and the people.
