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Arab World MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Arab World
Tree Number(s)
I01.076.201.450.226.200
Unique ID
D018643
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018643
Annotation
note category; lands & peoples under influence of Arab civilization & culture; IM; not restricted to hist articles; do not confuse with ARABIA, a Category Z hist geog term
Scope Note
A historical and cultural entity dispersed across a wide geographical area under the administrative, intellectual, social, and cultural domination of the Arab empire. The Arab world, under the impetus of Islam, by the eighth century A.D., extended from Arabia in the Middle East to all of northern Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia, and Sicily. Close contact was maintained with Greek and Jewish culture. While the principal service of the Arabs to medicine was the preservation of Greek culture, the Arabs themselves were the originators of algebra, chemistry, geology, and many of the refinements of civilization. (From A. Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p260; from F. H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p126)
Public MeSH Note
95
History Note
95
Date Established
1995/01/01
Date of Entry
1994/06/22
Revision Date
1995/06/08

Allowable Qualifiers
Arab World Preferred
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