Abbas Tabrizian

Abbas Tabrizian (Persian: عباس تبریزیان‎) is an Iranian Shia cleric and quack[2] who rejects academic medicine.

Abbas Tabrizian
Bornc. 1962 (age 57–58)
Najaf, Iraq[1]
NationalityIranian
Alma materHawza Najaf[1]

According to Al-Monitor, he is regarded as "a figure of ridicule" to most Iranians.[1]

Practices

He offers a service referred to as "Islamic Medicine", which is designated as a threat to the public health by Iran's ministry of health.[3] Tabrizian also instructs the presumed diagnoses to his followers,[4] including recommendations for "womb preparation" and "treatment of brain debility", alongside medications such as "nerve strengthener" and "blood detoxifier".[3] He operates a popular online shop, selling those drugs.[5]

He maintains that Islamic narrations can help cure any disease and by adopting a "true Islamic lifestyle", people would never need medical treatment.[6]

Tabrizian describes immunisation as "promoted by the colonialist medicine".[2]

Controversy

In January 2020, a video of his book burning ceremony went viral on social media, in which he set a copy of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine on fire with lighter. Iranian officials and authorities of Shia seminaries condemned the act.[7] He became a butt of jokes in Iran in March 2020, after he suggested applying violet oil to the anus as a cure for COVID-19.[1]

gollark: Update: I have decided fossil is neat but not enough for me to take any action based on this. All Fossil-related migration projects are now halted forever.
gollark: Perhaps I should migrate my projects to fossil now, so they get 0 (zero) users.
gollark: Yep. I just resolved it. It needs SCRIPT_NAME to be "" and not "/".
gollark: But it has repos. And it worked when I switched it to use HTTP.
gollark: How apioform, it works fine with not-SCGI.

References
  1. Faghihi, Rohollah (10 March 2020), "A cleric's cure for coronavirus becomes butt of jokes in Iran", Al-Monitor, retrieved 20 March 2020
  2. Aramesh, Kiarash (July 2018). "Science and Pseudoscience in Traditional Iranian Medicine". Archives of Iranian Medicine. Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences. 21 (7): 315–323. PMID 30041531.
  3. Iran’s Health Officials Raise Alarm over Islamic Medicine, Radio Zamaneh, 26 September 2017, retrieved 27 January 2020
  4. Fatima Mirza, Aliya (2018). "A Review on the Chemical versus Alternative Treatments of Leukemia". Traditional and Integrative Medicine. Tehran University of Medical Sciences. 3 (3): 147–161. eISSN 2476-5112.
  5. "Desperate Iranians are getting bad medical advice". The Economist. 18 April 2020.
  6. Islamic Medicine cures every disease, Hawzah News, 21 April 2016, retrieved 27 January 2020
  7. Burning Medical Book By Advocate of 'Islamic Medicine" Causes Outrage In Iran, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 25 January 2020, retrieved 27 January 2020
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.