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Origin Rooted in Hippocratic and Galenic humoral theory; systematized in the Islamic Golden Age, with Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine completed in 1025 CE; revived in colonial India by Hakim Ajmal Khan, who laid the foundation stone of the Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College, Delhi, in 1916.
A Greco-Arabic-Persian medical system rooted in the humoral theory of Hippocrates and Galen, systematized and greatly expanded during the Islamic Golden Age by physicians including al-Tabari, al-Razi and Ibn Sina, whose Canon of Medicine, completed in 1025 CE, became its most authoritative codification. The system entered South Asia with the Delhi Sultanate and flourished under Mughal patronage, and remains formally practiced and regulated in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh today.
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Origin PeriodRooted in Hippocratic and Galenic humoral theory; systematized in the Islamic Golden Age, with Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine completed in 1025 CE; revived in colonial India by Hakim Ajmal Khan, who laid the foundation stone of the Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College, Delhi, in 1916. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, completed 1025 CE, is Unani medicine's most authoritative and enduring codification, though the system was synthesized over centuries by multiple physicians before and alongside him.
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