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Organ Donation – Why Do Some Muslims in the UK Shamim IRSHAD, Abdul WADUD, I AHMAD, Still Resist It ? G.AHMAD, J NAJEEB, G.SOFI Sharif KAF AL-GHAZAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE (JISHIM) CHAIRMAN OF EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. Hajar A. HAJAR AL BINALI (Qatar) EDITORS IN CHIEF Dr. Ayşegül DEMIRHAN ERDEMIR (Turkey) Dr. Abdul Nasser KAADAN (Syria) ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dr. Oztan USMANBAS(Turkey) Dr. Sharif KafAL-GHAZAL (England) EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. Mahdi MUHAQAK (Iran) Dr. Husain NAGAMIA (USA) Dr. Nil SARI (Turkey) Dr. Faisal ALNASIR (Bahrain) Dr. Mostafa SHEHATA (Egypt) Dr. Rachel HAJAR (Qatar) INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Dr. Alain TOUWAIDE (Belgium) Dr. Gary FERNGREN (USA) Dr. Ahmad KANAAN (KSA) Dr. Arın NAMAL (Turkey) Dr. David W. 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Manuscripts should be sent to the editors in chief: Dr. Aysegul DEMIRHAN ERDEMIR President of Turkish Society for Medical Ethics and Law P.K.166 Kadikoy-Istanbul-TURKEY Fax: 00-90-216-3523437 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Abdul Nasser KAADAN Head of History of Medicine Department, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo University, President of ISHIM P.O.Box.7581 Aleppo-SYRIA Fax:00-963-21-2248035 e-mail: [email protected] III JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIEY FOR THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE (JISHIM) VoI.12-13 No.23-24-25-26 April / October 2013-2014 CONTENTS 1 46 Editorial Al-Hijamat: Conceptual Amalgamation of War’m Aysegul DEMIRHAN ERDEMIR, (A Transient Immuno-Inflammatory Response), Abdul Nasser KAADAN Acupuncture and Acupressure Mechanisms and its Operational Implications RESEARCH Arish MK SHERWANI, Abdul NASIR ANSARI Moalejat, Arij MK SHERWANI 2 The Vaginal Speculum Lawlabdescribed by Zahrawi 54 and Sabuncuoghlu: A Development? Norms for Qae (Vomiting) and Is’hal (purgation): Nil SARI, Ümit Emrah KURT The Traditional Graeco-Arabic approaches Ahsan ILAHI, Abdul MANNAN, M. Manzar ALAM, 8 Amjad ALI Analysis of a Manuscript: Risāla-i Tibb bl’t-Turkî: Treatment of Head Diseases in Ottoman Medicine Vildan TAŞKIRAN DEMIRSOY 59 Historical Perspective of Comparative 21 Evaluation of Calcination Organ Donation – Why Do Some Muslims in the UK Shamim IRSHAD, Abdul WADUD, I AHMAD, Still Resist It ? G.AHMAD, J NAJEEB, G.SOFI Sharif KAF AL-GHAZAL 29 62 Genetic and Religious Points of View on Homosexuality Tabasheer (Bambosa Arudinacea): a Review Bilal Ahmad AHMAD GHAREEB Izharul Hasan, Danish Kamal Chishti, A.M.K Sherwani, بيرغ دمحأ دمحأ لالب .د Mohd Zulkifle ةّيكيرمألا ةّيبرعلا ةعماجلا 35 65 Fasd (Venesection) - A Classical Unani Regimen The Physician’s Ethics as Viewed by Issac Ali Al-Rahawy Azad Hussain LONE, Tanzeel AHMAD, Abdul Nasser Kaadan Mohd ANWAR, AH NAIYAR Waddah Ibraheem Hamsho 40 68 Holistic Concept of Bahaq wa Bars and their Manage- Laxative Medicine as Viewed by ment in Unani (Greeko-Arabic) System of Medicine Abu Nasr Sa`ed Al-Baghdadi Azad Hussain LONE, Tanzeel AHMAD, Mohd ANWAR, Buthaina JALKHI, Ayman YASEEN ATAT Hashmat IMAM, Gh SOFI, Shahida HABIB V 72 126 To What Extent Was Montpellier, the Oldest Surviving Diseases and Their Medical Treatments Mentioned Medical School in Europe, Inspired by Islamic Medicine? in the Bursa Newspaper of Murad Emri Efendi Abdul Nasser Kaadan, Mahmud Angrini in the 19 th Century Gülay DURMAZ, İbrahim IMRAN ÖZTAHTALI 80 Chronology of Dalak (Massage) and Riyazat (Exercise) 129 Abdul Aziz KHAN, S. M. Safdar ASHRAF, Treatment of Oral Ulcers In Al-Adwiah al-Mufrada Mohd.ZULKIFLE Manuscript By Ibn Abi-l-Salt al-Andalusi Abdul Nasser KAADAN, Buthaina JALKHI, 83 Abdul Kader KHASHAN lānٱHealthy Environment as Viewed by Ibn Bu Abdul Nasser KAADAN, 133 Ali Rashid AL-MAHMOUD Measures Taken Against Contagious Diseases Observed in the Province of Hudâvendigâr (1890-1910) 90 Nursal KUMAŞ Ibn-e-Sena and Breast Feeding in Today’s Prospective Mohd. Saad Ahmad KHAN, T. LATAFAT, A.B. KHAN 143 Bursa in The History of Turkish Hot Springs And Some 95 Samples (With the Ottoman Archive Documents) Role Of Exercise (Riyazat) In Health And During Illness Ayşegül DEMIRHAN ERDEMIR Mohd. NASIR, Javed A. KHAN, Shagufta FATIMA, A.A.ANSARi K. Z. KHAN, F. S. SHERANI 152 The Concept Of Cancer in Unani Medicine-With Spe- 98 cial Reference To Cervical Cancer Physiotherapy Profession in Turkey: Sadia NIKHAT, Rubi ANJUM, K.U. 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