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AHMADI MUSLIM RESEARCHERS - RESTORING ISLAM’S GOLDEN AGE 41 of medicine was then led by Muslim societies across their immense territory, which extended from modern-day southern Spain to Iran. ” 8 It further states: “By the 900s, drawing from a growing body of Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit works translated into Arabic, Islamic medicine quickly became the most sophisticated in the world. Christians, Jews, Hindus, and scholars from many other traditions, looked to Arabic as a language of science. Doctors of different faiths worked together, debating and studying with Arabic as the common tongue. ” 9 The article continues: “The brightest star in the Baghdad firmament was undoubtedly the extraordinary Ibn Sina. . . Already a doctor at age 18, his great volume Al- Qanun fi al-Tibb – Canon of Medicine – became one of the most famous medical works of all time. . . [Ibn Sina’s] attempt to harmonize the medical practices of the Greek thinker Galen with the philosophy of Aristotle reveals the multiple nature of the debt owed to Muslim scholarship, which did not merely revive Greek authors, but stimulated new patterns of thought for the centuries ahead. The reconciling of practical science, thought, and religion ensured Al-Qanun was studied by European medics until the 18 th century. ” 10 Moreover, the National Geographic article labels the period of Muslim rule in Spain as a “period of scholarly development” and