Avicenna (of the tenth century) neither invented or founded anything. -----he wrote a compendium of the sciences elaborated by Greeks, (including Phoenicians), Hindus of India, --- and Christians and Jews ----and was HEAVILY dependent on GALEN---who was a "pagan" of the roman empire. He liked Greek philosophy and depended on translations into Arabic elaborated by Christians and Jews.
Galen did his writings in Greek but also some Latin. Greek was the "fancy"
scholarly language in the roman empire. Maimonides was a Cordoba kid
of the early 12th century-----he wrote lots too------in both Arabic and Hebrew and
was educated in what muslims like to call "muslim medicine" (ie the greek and
roman stuff that Avicenna copied) He managed to survive Islamic persecution by
being the personal physician of Saladdin------like Avicenna, he did not actually
INVENT anything in medicine ------he did commentary on religion and philosophy and also practiced medicine. My all time
fave quotation from Maimonides (moshe ben maimon nicknamed rambam)---
found in his book "guide to the perplexed" is approx. "the study of medicine at this time in history is VERY PRIMITIVE" -----and so it was------the school in Cordoba was based on the writings of Avicenna (I believe that was in Arabic
and Persian------Maimonides was literate in Arabic) Galen was innovative for
his time----a really smart guy.
Galen did his writings in Greek but also some Latin. Greek was the "fancy"
scholarly language in the roman empire. Maimonides was a Cordoba kid
of the early 12th century-----he wrote lots too------in both Arabic and Hebrew and
was educated in what muslims like to call "muslim medicine" (ie the greek and
roman stuff that Avicenna copied) He managed to survive Islamic persecution by
being the personal physician of Saladdin------like Avicenna, he did not actually
INVENT anything in medicine ------he did commentary on religion and philosophy and also practiced medicine. My all time
fave quotation from Maimonides (moshe ben maimon nicknamed rambam)---
found in his book "guide to the perplexed" is approx. "the study of medicine at this time in history is VERY PRIMITIVE" -----and so it was------the school in Cordoba was based on the writings of Avicenna (I believe that was in Arabic
and Persian------Maimonides was literate in Arabic) Galen was innovative for
his time----a really smart guy.