The Role of Arab and Muslim Scholars in Defining and Treating Pain: A Review Article

الملخص

Science is not the creation of a single nation or culture, nor it is the result of a single era. The prosperity we find in various fields is the result of successive civilizations throughout the ages, the work of nations that have followed the search for facts and the study of their scientific achievements generation after generation. The aim of this study is to investigate the contribution of Arab and Muslims in the field of development of the understanding and treatment of pain. In this regard, related historical books and reviews were the main sources of our investigation. Databases such as Google scholar, Scopus, Embase and PubMed were also searched. The first contribution for Arab and Muslim scholars was recording and saving medical knowledge of the previous cultures by translating their books to Arabic and making this knowledge available for all researchers. They also used a scientific wىay to think about the treatment of pain and its origin using different strategies and new medications. They were the first to investigate the effect of pain on the body and its function and their work in this field was a cornerstone for the next advancement in treating pain in a modern way opening the doors for great developments in both anesthetic and surgical fields.