Islamic Healing "Unveils" Softer Side of Islam

Islamic medicine is on the verge of becoming as popular as Chinese medicine in the West - even outside the Islamic community. Avicenna, the cornerstone in the Islamic Healing movement was heavily influenced by Chinese, Greek and Ayurvedic healers and wrote the Canon of Medicine which was the most widely studied work of medicine in Europe from the 12th to the 17th century. His methods, which draw from traditional texts, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and the medicine of Hippocrates has been refined and expounded on for the past 1000 years by prominent Islamic healers to produce a masterful system of healing which is filled with inspired and original ideas as well as a synthesis of all healing traditions from the East. This online course in Islamic Healing is the FIRST of its kind and the only Islamic Healing Course offered online.

(PRWEB) May 13, 2005 -- The Avicenna Institute of Natural Healing offers the first and only Islamic healing course online. The Avicenna Center is located in the USA and is run from various locations through traveling seminars and through an online course. This 12-part online healing course is a superb overview of Islamic medicine including a detailed history, healing with prayer, typology theory, case studies by the director of the school, spiritual aromatherapy, herbal preparation, medicine of the Hadith, guest lectures by healers around the globe, and even a practicum unit at the end on a virtual client.

This convenient and affordable new online school allows students to enroll online, pay online in installments for the course, read their course material online, take their quizzes online and receive a fantastic student newsletter every month as well as weekly updates and news about Islamic healing around the globe.

Students are also given a reading list of materials available in bookstores for enrichment reading. Students have the option to interact with each other using a private e-mail list and can write to their teacher at any time. Students include Non-Muslims and Muslims, doctors, dentists, medical students, herbalists, mothers at home, teachers at who want to learn about Islamic Medicine so they can create units of studies at their school, businessmen, and, psychologists.

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