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CHAPTER THREE 79 • • • • • Kitāb Mizān-ut-Tibb, Muhammad Akbar Arzānī, p. 152. Sadīdī, by Ra'īs-ul-Mutakallimīn Imām-ul Muhaqqiqīn as-Sadīd-ul-Kādhrūnī, vol. II, p. 283. Kitāb Hāvī Kabir, Ibn Zakariyyā under Skin Diseases. Qarābādīn, Ibn Tilmīdh under Skin Diseases. Qarābādīn, Ibn Abi Şādiq under Skin Diseases. These are those books that I have mentioned here by way of exam- ple. The learned, and especially physicians are not unaware of the fact that in an earlier age, most of these books were used as text books at important Islamic centres of learning where students from Europe also used to study them. And it is a fact, and there is not the slightest exaggeration about it, that in every century there have been tens of millions of people who have been acquainted with these books and hundreds of thousands have studied them intensively from end to end. We can assert with all the emphasis at our command, that not a single person from among the schol- ars of Europe and Asia has been ignorant of the names of at least some of the books listed above. When Hispania and Kasmonu and Satlirnem✩1 were seats of learning, Bu-Ali Sina's [Avicenna's] Qānūn, a great medical classic in which there is set out the pre- scription of Marham-i-Isa and other books like Shifā and Ishārāt and Bisharāt, on science, astronomy, and philosophy, were eagerly studied by the Europeans. Likewise, the original works of scholars like Abu Nasr Faaraa bi, Abu Raihaan, Israaeel, Thabit bin Qurrah and Hunain bin Is'haq, and Ishaq etc. , and their translations of 1. Hispania i. e. Andalusia; Kasmonu i. e. Kastamonu; Satrilnem i. e. Santarem. (Author)