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Forgotten Heroes.

Forgotten heroes of medicine. Stories of service and mercy.

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We do not know their faces. We do not know their stories. We do not know their names. And sometimes we know the heroes of others better than we know our own.

Forgotten Heroes is a campaign about the forgotten heroes of medicine, people from history and from our own time who give us, as Muslims, a sense of who we are. Not because they were loud, but because they carried others, served them, and left something behind.

إِنَّمَا نُطْعِمُكُمْ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ لَا نُرِيدُ مِنكُمْ جَزَاءً وَلَا شُكُورًا

“We feed you only for the sake of Allah. We desire from you neither reward nor thanks.”

Sūrat al-Insān (76:9)

Early Islamic Era

7th Century 3 Portraits
Ibn Abī Ramtha at-Tamīmī Plate 1 7th century CE Ibn Abī Ramtha at-Tamīmī "The Physician is Allah" Read the portrait
Rufaida al-Aslamiyya Plate 2 7th century CE Rufaida al-Aslamiyya The First Nurse of Islam Read the portrait
Al-Shifa bint Abdullah Plate 3 7th century CE Al-Shifa bint Abdullah Called "the Healing" Read the portrait

Golden Age

9th to 13th Century 5 Portraits
Fatima al-Fihri Plate 4 c. 800 to 880 CE Fatima al-Fihri Founder of the Oldest University in the World Read the portrait
Abū Bakr ar-Rāzī Plate 5 died around 925 CE Abū Bakr ar-Rāzī "Akhlāq aṭ-Ṭabīb · The Ethics of the Physician" Read the portrait
Abū Zayd al-Balkhī Plate 6 died 322 AH (934 CE) Abū Zayd al-Balkhī "The Physician of the Soul" Read the portrait
Abū al-Qāsim az-Zahrāwī Plate 7 c. 936 to 1013 CE Abū al-Qāsim az-Zahrāwī "The Service of the Hand" Read the portrait
Ibn an-Nafīs Plate 8 607 to 687 AH (1213 to 1288 CE) Ibn an-Nafīs "Faqīh and Physician" Read the portrait

Later Legacy

14th to 15th Century 3 Portraits
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Plate 9 died 751 AH (1350 CE) Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya "Medicine as Worship" Read the portrait
Ibn Khaldūn Plate 10 732 to 808 AH (1332 to 1406 CE) Ibn Khaldūn “Qāḍī and founder of the science of civilization” Read the portrait
Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu Plate 11 1385 to c. 1468 CE Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu "Knowledge that does not die" Read the portrait

Present Day

4 Portraits
Husain Abdul Sattar Plate 12 b. 1972 Husain Abdul Sattar The Teacher of a Generation of Physicians Read the portrait
Marwa el-Sherbini Plate 13 1977-2009 Marwa el-Sherbini Shahīdat al-Ḥijāb Read the portrait
Dr. Mohamed Mashally Plate 14 1944-2020 Dr. Mohamed Mashally The doctor of the poor Read the portrait
Prof. Malik Badri Plate 15 1932-2021 Prof. Malik Badri Father of Modern Islamic Psychology Read the portrait
Appendix

By Discipline

15 lives, 5 fields of service.

01

Surgery & Healing

3 Portraits
Ibn Abī Ramtha at-Tamīmī Ibn Abī Ramtha at-Tamīmī 7th century CE "The Physician is Allah" Abū al-Qāsim az-Zahrāwī Abū al-Qāsim az-Zahrāwī c. 936 to 1013 CE "The Service of the Hand" Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu 1385 to c. 1468 CE "Knowledge that does not die"
02

Care, Education & Endowment

4 Portraits
Rufaida al-Aslamiyya Rufaida al-Aslamiyya 7th century CE The First Nurse of Islam Al-Shifa bint Abdullah Al-Shifa bint Abdullah 7th century CE Called "the Healing" Fatima al-Fihri Fatima al-Fihri c. 800 to 880 CE Founder of the Oldest University in the World Husain Abdul Sattar Husain Abdul Sattar b. 1972 The Teacher of a Generation of Physicians
03

Internal Medicine

3 Portraits
Dr. Mohamed Mashally Dr. Mohamed Mashally 1944-2020 The doctor of the poor Abū Bakr ar-Rāzī Abū Bakr ar-Rāzī died around 925 CE "Akhlāq aṭ-Ṭabīb · The Ethics of the Physician" Ibn an-Nafīs Ibn an-Nafīs 607 to 687 AH (1213 to 1288 CE) "Faqīh and Physician"
04

Soul & Psychology

2 Portraits
Abū Zayd al-Balkhī Abū Zayd al-Balkhī died 322 AH (934 CE) "The Physician of the Soul" Prof. Malik Badri Prof. Malik Badri 1932-2021 Father of Modern Islamic Psychology
05

Ethics & Fiqh

2 Portraits
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya died 751 AH (1350 CE) "Medicine as Worship" Ibn Khaldūn Ibn Khaldūn 732 to 808 AH (1332 to 1406 CE) “Qāḍī and founder of the science of civilization”

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