Review and criticism of analysis, explanation and revision of Edward Brown's report on Islamic medicine

This article is about Edward Brown's four speeches in 1920-1921, an English doctor, about Islamic medicine, which was edited and translated into Farsi and published as book by him.He started his first speech by expressing greatness of phenomenon of Islamic medicine and says: I was given honor to define position and place of Islamic medicine in history, and he says that this is a difficult task. meaning of Islamic medicine in his own view and wrot : principles and opinions of Islamic medicine are compiled in Arabic language books. "It is said that most of their authors are Greek and a few Iranians, Indians and Syrians have added appendices to them. And they introduced best example of ancient science and culture to world." In his lectures, Brown reflects research of Islamic medicine in Europe with detailed documentation and works of about twenty orientalists in Islamic from Renaissance to 20th century. He has very colorfully expressed role of Iranian element in evolution of Islamic medicine from Iran. And he has emphasized practicality and realism of Islamic medicine. And he has expressed role of physical transmission and evolutionary development of Islamic medicine in medical knowledge from ancient period and innovation and in medical experiences. He started by mentioning stage of translation from Greece and finally explained character of three Iranian physicians of Islamic civilization who wrote, in Persian.Finally, he returned to East again and introduced several Persian physicians and writers of Islamic civilization of Seljukids, Khwarazmshahi, Ilkhanids, Safavid, and Qjar dynasty(1796-1925 ) eras and their works. has covered Brown's hypothesis is that phenomenon of medicine in Middle Ages, called Islamic medicine, not Arabic, has a physical and shameful position in history. In fourth lecture, he criticized himself this hypothesis and said: it is very difficult to prove and still needs research in sources. first Islamic medicine and Latin translations are sources of Islamic medicine in early renaissance.