Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences (IAMMS) is one of the Indian NGOs

Indian NGOs

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, which is registered under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882. Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

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, former vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University ,is a residential academic university, established in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as Mohammedan Angelo-Oriental College and later granted the status of Central University by an Act of the Indian Parliament in 1920...

, Aligarh, formally inaugurated it on April 21, 2001. Department of AYUSH

AYUSH

The Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy is a part of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the Government of India....

, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India....

, Government of India

Government of India

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gave accreditation

Accreditation

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to the academy in 2004 and promoted it as 'centre of excellence' in 2008. Membership of the academy is open to anyone who has an interest in the academy's activities particularly on history of medicine

History of medicine

All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods...

and history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

. Being a charitable organization, donations to the Academy are also exempted from Income Tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.

The founder president is Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...

Aims and objectives

To promote studies in the works of physicians and scientists — particularly Ibn Sina and his contemporaries —
To propagate and disseminate in public interest the useful knowledge concerning medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, philosophy
Philosophy
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, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

, social and preventive medical science, hygiene
Hygiene
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and environment
Environmental science
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.
To inculcate in the masses an active interest in useful information regarding science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, hygiene
Hygiene
Hygiene refers to the set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between...

and medicine
Medicine
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with its advances as well as the frontier areas of research
Research
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, inventions and discoveries
Discovery (observation)
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therein and also to make proper utilization of mass media
Mass media
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for propagation, dissemination and transmission of the same.
To establish dialogue between different theories concerning useful knowledge including the diverse prevalent systems of medical science, methodologies and philosophies;
To preserve artefacts on Indian culture, heritage and sciences including history of medicine;
To strive for bringing about adjustment, integration and synthesis and to organize / sponsor educational programmes, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences
Meeting
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as well as to promote academic work of all kinds in order to advance and develop the medical science.

Ibn Sina Academy is a part of signatories related to various health issues in the world.

History

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences is an extension of Majlis Ibn Sina, which was formed in 1965 under the aegis of Tibbi Academy. Majlis Ibn Sina was a sort of discussion group, to meet every month. For instance, the first meeting of that Majlis was held to discuss Typhoid

Tibbi Academy was itself formed in 1963 at Bhopal. In a note on p. 4, of the first book of Tibbi Academy, on “Modern Times and Unani Medicine” the author Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...

announced the establishment of Tibbi Academy with its clear objective: “to publicise the theoretical principles and practical ideas of Unani medicine, to publish the text of standard works of Unani medicine and also their translations… further, a learned and research oriented monthly journal”.

From 1965 to 1970, a monthly journal with the title, Al-Hikmat (in Urdu) from Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

was published under the auspices of Tibbi Academy under the editorship of Syed Zillur Rahman Nadvi. The editor stated in the introduction of the first issue (of May 1965, p. 2) that the journal is being issued.

Further, besides the above-mentioned objectives, the editor also listed a couple of additional objectives, e.g., “the search of manuscripts of the Unani medicine, their edition and publication, … to excite the feeling of the pressing need of Unani medicine literature, and to publish a standard book every year”. He lamented also that despite the publication of 30-40 Tibbi magazines in India, no learned journal of Unani medicine is being published. He stressed that Al-Hikmat would be a purely scholarly journal not only confined to Unani Medicine, but it would also include some time articles on basic sciences, that is, zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

, botany

Botany

Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...

, chemistry

Chemistry

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, physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, astronomy

Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

and philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

.

In 1970, Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman renamed the Tibbi Academy as Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee after the name of his teacher, Shifaul Mulk Hakim Abdul Latif (29.4.1900-14.11.1970), former Professor and Principal of Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University

. The purpose of this Memorial Committee was same as Tibbi Academy formed in 1963, except the widened scope of publications.

At the moment, all these past establishments viz. Tibbi Academy (1963), Majlis Ibn Sina (1965) and Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee (1970) are merged and came under one trustee organisation i.e. Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000 AD. However, it was formally inaugurated on 21 April 2001.

Hakim Zillur Rahman Library

The library at present houses one of the most precious and valuable collection of 20,000 printed books, 500 manuscripts, some rare books, microfilms, compact discs and a large number of periodicals. Books in many languages like Arabic, Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

, Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

and English

English language

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on a variety of subjects like History of Medicine

History of medicine

and Sciences, Unani

Unani

Unani-tibb or Unani Medicine also spelled Yunani Medicine means "Greek Medicine", and is a form of traditional medicine widely practiced in South Asia...

, Medieval medicine

Medieval medicine

Medieval medicine in Western Europe was composed of a mixture of existing ideas from antiquity, spiritual influences and what Claude Lévi-Strauss identifies as the "shamanistic complex" and "social consensus." In this era, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went...

, Ilmul Advia (Pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

), Urdu

Urdu

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

with special reference to Ghalib, Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...

, Aligarh and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, besides thousands of bound volumes of magazines are extant in this library.

The Library is listed in the Directory of History of Medicine Collections, United States Department of Health and Human Services

United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...

, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA.

Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on History of Medicine and Sciences

Karam Husain Museum on History of Medicine and Sciences is an academic unit with collections and exhibitions. The main theme is the history of health and disease in a cultural perspective, with focus on the material and iconographic culture of medieval medicine and sciences. The Museum has categorically the pictures and bust (sculpture)

Bust (sculpture)

A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human figure, depicting a person's head and neck, as well as a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. These forms recreate the likeness of an individual...

of different physicians belonging to Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...

, Babylonian, Egyptians

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

, Greeks

Greeks

The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....

, Arab

Arab

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and India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n civilization

Civilization

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. In addition, medical manuscripts, catalogues, medical philately

Philately

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, medical souvenirs, memoirs of physicians including Nobel laureates, etc., are also preserved and exhibited.

Hakim Fazlur Rahman Museum on Arts, Culture and Orientalism

The Museum has a large collection of coins

COinS

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, postage stamps, gemstones

Gemstones

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, paintings, engravings, watercolours, drawings, photographic print, utensils

Cookware and bakeware

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, garments including Calico (textile), bust (sculpture)

Bust (sculpture)

, pens

Pens

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, memoirs and relics of some prominent personalities. In the museum, there are some family collections like Prof. Syed Mahmood Husain Family Collection, Roohi Mabud Hasan Family Collection, etc.

Publication division under Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee

Quarterly Newsletter of Ibn Sina Academy. Till now 44 issues have been published
The Academy has published a number of books on History of medicine
History of medicine
All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods...

and Sciences including Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

and Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

.

AIDS Cell

AIDS Cell of the Academy is dedicated to improving lives, knowledge, and understanding worldwide through a highly diversified program of research, education, and services in HIV/AIDS screening and prevention, care and treatment, reproductive health

Reproductive health

Within the framework of the World Health Organization's definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system...

and infectious diseases. AIDS Cell is a partner member of Global Health Council

Global Health Council

The Global Health Council is a United States-based non-profit networking organizing linking "several hundred health non-governmental organizations around the world to share knowledge and resources, build partnerships and together become stronger advocates for health"...

(USA) and the AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign (Thailand).

It has a separate Library of documents relevant to HIV/AIDS project management, research, and reproductive health

Reproductive health

issues apart from CD- ROMs, poster

Poster

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and books in several languages.

Ibn Sina Shifa Khana

For clinical studies of Indigenous Drugs, IAMMS is engaged in research and development in its clinical set-up, Ibn Sina Shifakhana, at Okhla Vihar, New Delhi

New Delhi

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Centre for Safety and Rational Use of Indian Systems of Medicine

The academy took a novel task of improving the use of Indian originated drugs and their adverse reaction monitoring under the establishment of Centre for Safety & Rational Use of Indian Systems of Medicine (CSRUISM) in 2005. CSRUISM receives many adverse drug reactions of herbs, which were never reported earlier. These reactions for their causal relationships are assessed according to Naranjo algorithm

Naranjo algorithm

The Naranjo algorithm, Naranjo Scale, or Naranjo Nomogram is a questionnaire designed by Naranjo et al. for determining the likelihood of whether an ADR is actually due to the drug rather than the result of other factors. Probability is assigned via a score termed definite, probable, possible or...

and WHO

Who

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Causality Categories.

Ghalib Study Centre

This Centre was set up to study Urdu poetry particularly of Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib

Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan , pen-name Ghalib and Asad , was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule...

. The centre has a largest collection on Ghalibiat (things related to Ghalib). It has many books and periodicals especially ‘Ghalib Numbers’ issued in different occasions, particularly on Ghalib’s Centenary Celebration observed all over the world in 1969. In addition, there are hundreds of other poets’ collection, memoirs and writings.

Annual events

Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture: Courtesy, National Council for Promotion of Urdu Languages, Department of Education
Department of Higher Education (India)
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, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Government of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

.

Series of Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture:
- First Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2006) by Saiyid Hamid (Delhi)
- Second Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2007) by Syed Mushirul Hasan

Mushirul Hasan

Professor Mushirul Hasan second son for noted historian and professor at his time Muhibbul Hasan he originally belongs to Village Muhammadpur Tehsil Fatehpur District Barabanki,is an internationally known historian, author and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University at Delhi...

(Delhi)
- Third Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2008) by Syed Shahid Mehdi (Delhi)
- Fourth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2009) by Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University. He has served in the Indian History Congress for many years. Irfan Habib and R.S...

(Aligarh)
- Fifth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2010) by Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai (Delhi)
- Sixth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2011) by Dr. Ahmad Abdul Hai (Patna)

Prof. M. Nasim Ansari Memorial Lecture on World Health Day: Courtesy, SEARO, WHO
Who
Who may refer to:* Who , an English-language pronoun* who , a Unix command* Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism- Art and entertainment :* Who? , a 1958 novel by Algis Budrys...

, New Delhi.

Series of Prof. M. Nasim Ansari Memorial Lecture:
- First Lecture (2007) by Dr. Md. Tauheed Ahmad (Aligarh)
- Second Lecture (2008) by Dr. M. Habib Raza (Aligarh)
- Third Lecture (2009) by Dr. D. P. Singh Toor (Delhi)
- Fourth Lecture (2010) by Dr. Syed Badrul Hasan (Aligarh / Bhopal)
- Fifth Lecture (2011) by Prof. M. Hanif Beg (Aligarh)

External links

Photographs at Picaso Web Picture Gallery, Ibn Sina Academy
Intute Resources, UK
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, UK
Science Societies in India, IndianScience, India
Acronym, IAMMS stands for Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences
Acronym, IAMMS stands for Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences
In 2001 the agreement was signed with the Indian Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Japan
AIDS Cell, IAMMS, MSMGF Secretariat, AIDS Project, LA, USA
AIDS Cell News, Global Health Council, USA
Releasing Ceremony of a Collection of Poem "Goonj", A.M.U. News And Views
Prof Nasim Ansari Memorial Lecture on World Health Day, Indian Muslims News and Information
Ek Shaam Mushtaq Yousufi Ke Naam, AMULIVE News
Students receive AMU Alumni Association Michigan Scholarship, AMULIVE News
WHD Events at Ibn Sina Academy, Aligarh, India, World Health Day 2010, World Health Organisation
Exhibition and Painting Competition on SS Day

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