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“The Work and Medical Instruments of Zahrawi within Modern Surgery Perspective” Seminar in EMU

“The Work and Medical Instruments of Zahrawi within Modern Surgery Perspective” seminar was organized with the collaboration of the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Dr. Fazıl Küçük Medicine Faculty and Marvelous Pious Foundations. The seminar delivered by Dr. Ömer Faruk İnanç took place on Monday, 10 January 2022 between 12:30 and 13:30 at Mustafa Afşin Ersoy Hall. EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Aykut Hocanın, vice Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan Demirel, Marvelous Pious Foundations General Director Prof. Dr. İbrahim F. Benter, Dr. Fazıl Küçük Medicine Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Nahide Gökçora, vice Dean Prof. Dr. Ethem Gelir and medicine faculty students attended the seminar. 

During the seminar, Dr. İnanç provided information on the history of surgery, the firsts and turning points in surgery, and about Zahrawi who is considered as the father of surgery. Stating that Zahrawi was an Arab-Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Andalusia, Dr. İnanç emphasized that Zahrawi, one of the leading physicians of the medieval Islamic World, was accepted as the Father of Surgery. Expressing that Zahrawi’s greatest contribution to medicine is his book, Kitab al-Tasrif (et-Tasrif), which consists of 30 volumes, Dr. İnanç showed the surgical instruments invented at that time and the ones used today with the participants. Dr. İnanç said, "When there is a suitable quality environment that allows science, names like Zahrawi who become stars in their field will continue to emerge from among us." At the end of the presentation Prof. Dr. Hocanın, presented a traditional Cypriot panel to Dr. İnanç for his contributions.