Arab medicine in European schools

In the section "Arab civilisation and the service of the Arabs to the science of medicine", Shakib Arslan notes that the books of Arab physicians were the authoritative reference in European schools. This is a presentation of his view. ¹

He holds that these books remained so until the sixteenth century, when Europeans returned to translating Hippocrates directly from Greek. He says that the works of the Arabs were not removed from the teaching programmes until the end of that century. He cites with approval a French historian's praise of the clarity of Arab writers on scientific subjects. ¹

Arslan presents this to highlight the merit of the Arabs in transmitting and developing knowledge. ¹

The author's details rest on material taken from European books that has not been checked here. The dates of the change in European teaching would need a reference in the history of medicine, and the historian from whom Arslan quotes must be identified before any quotation is made. It needs a further source.