Review Article

Diabetes Mellitus across the Arabo-Islamic World: A Revolution

Table 1

Selected scholars from the ancient Arabo-Islamic civilization with respect to their geographical location.

Ancient Arabo-Islamic civilization
Geographical sectionsEast (622–1922 CE)West (711–1492 CE)

Countries(i) Gulf of Arabia(i) Andalusia
(ii) Greater Syria(ii) Morocco
(iii) Iraq(iii) Algeria
(iv) Central Asia(iv) Tunisia
(v) Indonesia(v) Mauritania
(vi) Malaysia(vi) Chad
(vii) Bangladesh(vii) Mali
(viii) Pakistan
(ix) Afghanistan

Selected scholars/polymaths(i) Al-Razi(i) Ibn Maymun
(ii) Ibn Sina(ii) Ibn Zuhr
(iii) Al-Baghdadi
(iv) Al-Nafis