Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and
Sciences

Sciences (IAMMS) (Urdu:
ابن سینا اکاڈمی آف میڈیول میڈیسین اینڈ
سائنسیز) is a trust registered under the Indian Trusts
Act, 1882. Mohammad Hamid Ansari, former vice-chancellor of Aligarh
Muslim University, Aligarh, formally inaugurated it on April 21, 2001.
Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government
of
India

India gave accreditation to the academy in 2004 and promoted it as
'centre of excellence' in 2008. Membership of the academy is open to
anyone who has an interest in the academy's activities particularly on
history of medicine and history of science. Being a charitable
organization, donations to the Academy are also exempted from Income
Tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.
The founder president is Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman.
Ibn Sina Academy is a part of signatories related to various health
issues in the world.[1][2][3][4]
Contents
1 History
2 Facilities
2.1 Hakim Zillur Rahman Library
2.2 Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on
History of Medicine

History of Medicine and Sciences
2.3 Hakim Fazlur Rahman Museum on Arts, Culture and Orientalism
2.4 Publication division under Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee
2.5 AIDS Cell
2.6 Ibn Sina Shifa Khana
2.7 Centre for Safety and Rational Use of Indian Systems of Medicine
2.8
Ghalib

Ghalib Study Centre
3 Annual events
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Mosaic of Iranian tiles calligraphically inscribed ‘Ibn Sina Academy
...’ (now destroyed during renovation; once installed at the main
entrance)
Foundation stone at the entrance gate of academy
Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and
Sciences

Sciences is an extension of
Majlis Ibn Sina, which was formed in 1965 under the aegis of Tibbi
Academy. Majlis Ibn Sina was a sort of monthly discussion group. For
instance, the first meeting of that Majlis was held to discuss
typhoid.[5]
Tibbi Academy was itself formed in 1963 at Bhopal. In a note on
page 4, of the first book of Tibbi Academy, on Modern Times and
Unani

Unani Medicine the author
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman announced the
establishment of Tibbi Academy with its clear objective: “to
publicise the theoretical principles and practical ideas of Unani
medicine, to publish the text of standard works of
Unani medicine

Unani medicine and
also their translations… further, a learned and research oriented
monthly journal”.
From 1965 to 1970, a monthly journal with the title Al-Hikmat (in
Urdu) from
Delhi

Delhi was published under the auspices of Tibbi Academy
under the editorship of Syed Zillur Rahman Nadvi. The editor stated in
the introduction of the first issue (May 1965, page 2) that the
journal is being issued.
Further, besides the above-mentioned objectives, the editor listed a
couple of additional objectives, e.g., “the search of manuscripts of
the
Unani

Unani medicine, their edition and publication, … to excite the
feeling of the pressing need of
Unani medicine

Unani medicine literature, and to
publish a standard book every year”. He lamented that despite the
publication of 30-40 Tibbi magazines in India, no learned journal of
Unani medicine

Unani medicine is being published. He stressed that Al-Hikmat would be
a purely scholarly journal not confined to
Unani

Unani medicine: It would
include some articles on basic sciences, that is, zoology, botany,
chemistry, physics, astronomy and philosophy.
In 1970,
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman renamed the Tibbi Academy as Shifaul
Mulk Memorial Committee after his teacher, Shifaul Mulk Hakim Abdul
Latif (29 April 1900–14 November 1970), former professor and
principal of Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College,
Aligarh

Aligarh Muslim University.
The purpose of this memorial committee was the same as Tibbi Academy
formed in 1963, except the widened scope of publications.
All these past establishments — Tibbi Academy (1963), Majlis Ibn
Sina (1965) and Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee (1970) — merged and
came under one trustee organisation, i.e., Ibn Sina Academy of
Medieval Medicine and
Sciences

Sciences in 2000. It was formally inaugurated on
21 April 2001.
Facilities[edit]
Hakim Zillur Rahman Library[edit]
The library houses one of the most precious and valuable collection of
20,000 printed books, 500 manuscripts,[6][7] some rare books,
microfilms, compact discs and a large number of periodicals.
Books

Books in
many languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu,
Sanskrit

Sanskrit and English on
subjects like
History of Medicine

History of Medicine and Sciences, Unani, Medieval
medicine, Ilmul Advia (Pharmacology),
Urdu

Urdu
Literature

Literature with special
reference to Ghalib, Iqbal,
Aligarh

Aligarh and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, besides
thousands of bound volumes of magazines are extant in this library.
The library is listed in the Directory of History of Medicine
Collections, United States Department of Health and Human Services,
National Library of Medicine, NIH.[8]
Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on
History of Medicine

History of Medicine and Sciences[edit]
Karam Husain Museum on
History of Medicine

History of Medicine and
Sciences

Sciences is an academic
unit with collections and exhibitions. The main theme is the history
of health and disease in a cultural perspective, with focus on the
material and iconographic culture of medieval medicine and sciences.
The museum has categorically the illustrations and busts of physicians
belonging to Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Egyptians, Greeks,
Arab

Arab and
Indian civilizations. In addition, medical manuscripts, catalogues,
medical philately, medical souvenirs, memoirs of physicians including
Nobel laureates, etc., are preserved and exhibited.
The museum is listed in the 'World's 10 weirdest medical museums', as
per
CNN

CNN Travel.[9]
Hakim Fazlur Rahman Museum on Arts, Culture and Orientalism[edit]
This museum is located on the 2nd Floor and has 4 main galleries. The
Crockery Gallery has a large collection of oriental and British India
utensils, plates, bowls, tea-set belonged to many prominent
personalities like Hakim Ajmal Khan, Nawab Yusef Ali Khan, Kaikhusrau
Jahan, Begum of Bhopal, Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal, etc. The
Textile Gallery consists of attires, garments, calico of gold and
silver studded stones and many other oriental clothes. The Picture
Gallery has pictures, drawings, watercolors, photographic print and
paintings especially of people belonged to
Aligarh

Aligarh and
Aligarh

Aligarh Muslim
University. Miscellaneous Gallery has many objects of coins, postage
stamps, gemstones, engravings including vintage cameras, clocks,
busts, pens, memoirs and relics of some prominent personalities. In
the same gallery, there are separate family collections that belong to
Prof. Syed Mahmood Husain, Roohi Mabud Hasan, Hakim Syed Fazlur
Rahman, etc. In addition, there is a separate “Skins and Taxidermy
Collection” displayed on the ground floor.[10]
Publication division under Shifaul Mulk Memorial Committee[edit]
Periodicals
1. Newsletter of Ibn Sina Academy (NISA), a quarterly newsletter since
2001 (68 issues published).[11] 2. International Journal of Medical
Research Professionals (IJMRP).[12] 3. International Archives of
BioMedical and Clinical Research (IABCR).[13]
Books
The academy has published a number of books on the history of medicine
and sciences including pharmacology and literature.
Before the existence of Ibn Sina Academy, publications were done under
the aegis of Tibbi Academy, formed in 1963. The first book of the
Tibbi Academy was Daur Jadeed aur Tibb (Modern Times and Unani
Medicine). From 1965 to 1970, a monthly
Urdu

Urdu journal, Al-Hikmat, was
published under the auspices of Tibbi Academy. Under the Shifaul Mulk
Memorial Committee many more publications came into existence and are
known to the world of history of medicine. The Memorial Committee and
Tibbi Academy are now a part of the Publication Division of Ibn Sina
Academy.[14]
AIDS Cell[edit]
AIDS Cell of IAMMS was established in the year 2002 with Dr Imran
Sabri as the founder Incharge of this prestigious institute. The Main
AIM of the AIDS Cell is to spread awareness about AIDS in common
population and newly graduated doctors. AIDS Cell of the academy is
dedicated to improving lives, knowledge, and understanding worldwide
through a highly diversified programme of research, education, and
services in
HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS screening and prevention, care and treatment,
reproductive health and infectious diseases. AIDS Cell is a partner
member of
Global Health Council

Global Health Council (USA) and the AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign
(Thailand). It has a separate library of documents relevant to
HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS project management, research, and reproductive health issues
apart from CD-ROMs, poster and books in several languages. AIDS Cell
of IAMMS claims responsibility of holding Symposium on Medico-Social
implication of the emerging epidemic of
HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS on India, Free Health
check-up and Drug Distribution camp.
Ibn Sina Shifa Khana[edit]
For clinical studies of indigenous drugs, IAMMS is engaged in research
and development in its clinical set-up, Ibn Sina Shifakhana, at Okhla
Vihar, New Delhi.
Centre for Safety and Rational Use of Indian Systems of Medicine[edit]
The academy took a novel task of improving the use of Indian
originated drugs and their adverse reaction monitoring under the
establishment of Centre for Safety & Rational Use of Indian
Systems of Medicine (CSRUISM) in 2005. CSRUISM receives many adverse
drug reactions of herbs, which were never reported earlier. These
reactions for their causal relationships are assessed according to
Naranjo algorithm and
WHO

WHO causality categories. The Centre has
organised many CMEs on Pharmacovigilance in association with Society
of Pharmacovigilance, India
Ghalib

Ghalib Study Centre[edit]
This centre was set up to study
Urdu

Urdu poetry particularly of Mirza
Ghalib. The centre has a largest collection on 'Ghalibiat' (things
related to poet Ghalib). It has several books and periodicals
especially ‘
Ghalib

Ghalib Numbers’ issued particularly as a part of his
birth centenary observed all over the world in 1969. In addition,
there are hundreds of other poets’ collection, memoirs and writings.
The Centre is famous for organising
Mushaira

Mushaira and till now has
published two books on Mirza Ghalib.
Annual events[edit]
Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture: Courtesy, National Council for Promotion of
Urdu

Urdu Languages, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India.
Series of Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture: - First Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
(2006) by Saiyid Hamid (Delhi) - Second Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
(2007) by Syed
Mushirul Hasan (Delhi) - Third Ibn Sina Memorial
Lecture (2008) by Syed Shahid Mehdi (Delhi) - Fourth Ibn Sina Memorial
Lecture (2009) by
Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib (Aligarh) - Fifth Ibn Sina Memorial
Lecture (2010) by Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai (Delhi) - Sixth Ibn Sina
Memorial Lecture (2011) by Dr. Ahmad Abdul Hai (Patna) - Seventh Ibn
Sina Memorial Lecture (2012) by
Moosa Raza

Moosa Raza (Villupuram, Tamil Nadu) -
Eight Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2013) by Muhammad Zakaria Virk
(Ontario, Canada) - Ninth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture (2015) by Dr.
(Maulana)
Kalbe Sadiq

Kalbe Sadiq (Lucknow) - Tenth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
(2016) by Dr. Ather Farouqui (Delhi) - Tenth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
(2016) by Dr. Ather Farouqui (Delhi) - Tenth Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
(2016) by Dr. Ather Farouqui (Delhi) - Eleventh Ibn Sina Memorial
Lecture (2017) by Dr. Naresh [1] (Panchkula, Haryana)
Syed Shahid Mehdi delivering 3rd Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman introducing Dr. S. Shahid Mehdi
Prof. M. Nasim Ansari Oration on World Health Day (7th April):
Courtesy, SEARO, WHO, New Delhi.
Series of Prof. M. Nasim Ansari Oration: - First Lecture (2007) by Dr.
Md. Tauheed Ahmad (Aligarh) - Second Lecture (2008) by Dr. M. Habib
Raza (Aligarh) - Third Lecture (2009) by Dr. D. P. Singh Toor (Delhi)
- Fourth Lecture (2010) by Dr. Syed Badrul Hasan (
Aligarh

Aligarh / Bhopal) -
Fifth Lecture (2011) by Prof. M. Hanif Beg (Aligarh) - Sixth Lecture
(2012) by Dr. Syed Badrul Hasan (
Aligarh

Aligarh / Bhopal) - Seventh Lecture
(2013) by Prof. Arshad Hafeez Khan (Aligarh) - Eighth Lecture (2014)
by Prof. Saeeduzzafar Chaghtai (Aligarh) - Ninth Lecture (2015) by
Prof. Mohd Zaheer (Aligarh) - Tenth Lecture (2016) by Prof. Dipti
Tripathi (Former Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi) -
Eleventh Lecture (2017) by Dr. Vandana Roy (Professor Director and
Head, Department of Pharmacology, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi)
2nd Prof. M. Nasim Ansari Memorial Lecture Delivered by Dr. M. Habib
Raza
See also[edit]
Collection of the Canon of Medicine (Al Qanoon fi al tibb by Ibn Sina)
Galen's influence on Islamic medicine
Kitab ila Aglooqan fi Shifa al Amraz
‘Risalah al Nabidh’ dated 1745AD
Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi
Hakim Syed Karam Husain
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (President)
Mehdi Mohaghegh

Mehdi Mohaghegh (Vice President)
SM Razaullah Ansari

SM Razaullah Ansari (General Secretary)
Syed Ziaur Rahman

Syed Ziaur Rahman (Treasurer)
Dawakhana Shifaul Amraz
References[edit]
^ "Women's Health". International.
^ "Essential Medicines". International.
^ "CPTECH". International.
^ "Climate Health". Health Prescriptions.
^ Al-Hikmat, Issue of July 1965, Ed. Syed Zillur Rahman Nadvi, Tibbi
Academy, Delhi,
^ "
Manuscripts

Manuscripts Catalogues at Zillur Rahman Library". Microfilm Centre
of India. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.
^ "
Manuscripts

Manuscripts Libraries". Microfilm Centre of India. Archived from
the original on 2010-02-19.
^ "Zillur Rahman Library". United States National Library of Medicine,
National Institute of Health.
^ "World's 10 weirdest medical museums". Bryan Pirolli for CNN, Travel
(May 24, 2013).
^ "Ibn Sina Academy: Muslim Lifestyle Beyond Maqbara, Masjid and
Madrasa". Eram Agha for CNN-News18, (November 5, 2017).
^ Newsletters of Ibn Sina Academy (NISA)
^ International Journal of Medical Research Professionals
^ International Archives of BioMedical and Clinical Research
^ Publication Division of Ibn Sina Academy
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