Islamic Medicine: Prospects

^PREFACE

^{Dr. Abdul-Rahman
A. Al-Awadi}

^President

^{Islamic
Organization for Medical Sciences}

^KUWAIT

^{Thanks
to Allah Almighty for guiding us to Islam, enlightening our hearts with
true belief, discarding all grief, dispelled words, and freed our homeland.}

^{This
series comes following fifteen years of the idea of establishing the Islamic
Organization for Medical Sciences and after its participation in local
and regional book exhibitions where our volumes of Islamic Medicine were
greatly appreciated by the visitors, However, because of the soaring cost
of paper and publication, the individual book keeping has become very
difficult, especially in the non-Gulf Arabic and Islamic countries, as
bread earning receives the first priority of the inhabitants of these
countries. Keeping in view the fact that the individuals need to be informed,
and educated, of the important matter to make them effective member of
their community and also a messenger to other communities, it is vital
to provide them the contents of these conferences in a simplified way
to enable them to carry along and comprehend the scientific purport.}

^{In order
to facilitate the possession of these books by the individuals, the Islamic
Organization for Medical Sciences has decided to issue a series of publications
under the title "The Cultural Series of the Islamic Organization for Medical
Sciences". Although the Organization is shouldering the largest share
of the cost of production and publication of these books, still these
are out of reach of a large section of Muslim individuals, due to escalating
sot of living. The great sum of money available to the Organization is
spent in bringing together and collecting th prominent thinkers of our
Islamic nation in order to achieve appropriate opinions and co-visions
of the Islamic Scientists about right topics that need insight and the
true objective word. And, subsequently, to present this information to
every individual willing to increase his/her knowledge about the doctrinal
writings in scientific medicine, as the prominent group of writers/thinkers
sees this as an ordinance and a religious obligation to provide for all
the Muslims, and to disseminate the message to the largest number of the
people of this nation.}

^{This
series will include a group of books, each dealing with specific topic,
as collected from the articles written under the respective domains and
previously published in the Proceedings of the Islamic Medicine Conferences
held under the auspices of the Organization. Moreover, all these publications
shall remain concerned with one vital topic, that is, the Islamic Medicine.
By doing so, we hope to have shouldered the burden off the Arabic/Islamic
reader to enable him/her to own the right material and hoping to have
clarified a lot of mystery about the subject of Islamic Medicine to the
Muslim and Arab readers.}

^{Herein,
I beseech Allah to guide our steps to what He likes and approves of.}