Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

Islam, Transmission, and the Decline of Islamic Science • 127The last page of Ibn Sina’s magnus opus in medicine, Al-Qanunfi’l tibb (The Canon of Medicine) which was translated into Latinby Gerard of Cremona (ca. 1114–1187) and which remained thestandard textbook of medicine in Europe until the sixteenthcentury.note that Gerard and his companions paid no attention to a manwho would become the most important Muslim philosopher forEurope and who lived close to the time of their translation activity:Ibn Rushd (d. 1198). His works were later translated in the thirteenthcentury, shortly after his death. Gerard is, nevertheless, one of themost important transmitters of knowledge from one civilization