Talk:Ophthalmology in the medieval Islamic world

	History of science portal This article is part of the History of Science WikiProject, an attempt to improve and organize the history of science content on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. You can also help with the History of Science Collaboration of the Month.History of ScienceWikipedia:WikiProject History of ScienceTemplate:WikiProject History of Sciencehistory of science articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Arab world

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Arab world, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Arab world on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Arab worldWikipedia:WikiProject Arab worldTemplate:WikiProject Arab worldArab world articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Medicine: Ophthalmology Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Ophthalmology task force.

Untitled[edit]

The use of the term medieval in reference to Islam is rather odd, it usually being reserved for discussion of European history. This page could benefit from more precise dating. PaulH 192.174.2.253 03:23, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The title is strangely worded in general. This page does not discuss the relationship between the religion of Islam and ophthalmology, it's about ophthalmological innovations originating from Islamic communities. Perhaps, "Ophthalmology in the pre-modern Islamic world," although that's pretty ugly, too. The medieval Islamic medicine page makes similar points, beginning with the disambiguation:

"This article is about historic practice of "rational medicine". For Islam in medicine, see Prophetic medicine."

and later clarifying further,

"Some consider the label "Arab-Islamic" as historically inaccurate, arguing it does not appreciate the rich diversity of scholars who contributed to Islamic science many of whom were neither Arab nor Muslim."

FLH 71.91.118.144 (talk) 18:14, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ibn al-Haytham[edit]

Ibn al-Haytham was not an ophthalmologist, his anatomical "contributions" were likely taken from Galen. He may have suggested that the retina was involved in image formation and that vision occurred in the brain, not the eye, but this hardly counts as "ophthalmology". He also thought that the receptive part of the eye was the lens, rather than (as we now know) the retina. Famousdog (talk) 12:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also the source for this is from a complementary medicine journal, for Pete's sake! Famousdog (talk) 12:36, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff[edit]

Vast tracts of this are uncited. The "references" section is very poor William M. Connolley (talk) 22:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Persian Zakaria Razi.jpg Nominated for Deletion[edit]

An image used in this article, File:Persian Zakaria Razi.jpg, has been nominated for deletion at Wikimedia Commons in the following category: Deletion requests April 2012

What should I do?

Don't panic; a discussion will now take place over on Commons about whether to remove the file. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion, although please review Commons guidelines before doing so.

If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use)
If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used.

To take part in any discussion, or to review a more detailed deletion rationale please visit the relevant image page (File:Persian Zakaria Razi.jpg)

This is Bot placed notification, another user has nominated/tagged the image --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 01:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]