
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 Century3 PortraitsGolden Age
9th to 13th Century5 Portraits




Later Legacy
14th to 15th Century3 PortraitsPresent Day
5 Portraits




By Discipline
16 lives, 5 fields of service.
Surgery & Healing
3 PortraitsCare, Education & Endowment
4 PortraitsInternal Medicine
3 PortraitsSoul & Psychology
2 PortraitsThe chain does not break
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