Who Was Ibn al-Nafis? The Islamic Physician Who Described Pulmonary Circulation

Introduction Centuries before modern medicine fully understood how blood moves between the heart and lungs, a remarkable physician in the medieval Islamic world challenged one of the most influential medical theories of his time. His name was Ibn al-Nafis. Ibn al-Nafis was a 13th-century physician, scholar, and writer best known for his description of pulmonary […]