Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c16.22

c16.22

The Saracens themselves admitted their discipleship to the Hindu professors of medicine. Chemistry naturally passed along with the medical science from India into the Saracen Empire. The famous Arabic encyclopædia, "Kitaba al Fihrist," by Nadim (*c* 950) distinctly mentions the translation of Hindu medical works into Arabic under the patronage of Caliphs from Mansur to Mamun (*c* A.D. 750–850). Saracen scholars⁵¹ of the thirteenth century, e.g., Haji Khalifa, also acknowledged what their predecessors had learned from the schools of Hindu medicine.