In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic ...
The medieval worlds it examines stretch from West Africa and northern Europe across the Mediterranean to Central Asia, encompassing the civilizations of Islam, Latin Europe, the Byzantine Empire and ...
Muslim migrants arrived in the industrialized Western European states after World War II, many from the countries that were formerly colonial possessions.