The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad, in cooperation with the Syndicate of Iraqi Pharmacist in the presence of a number of professors and researchers, has organized a scientific symposium entitled (Pharmacy in Heritage), divided into two sessions headed by Prof. Dr. Saadi Ibrahim al-Daraji, head of the Department of Pure Sciences. The first research was presented by the Prof. Nabila Abdul Moneim Dawood entitled: (The role of Arabs in the use of herbs and medicinal plants: the manuscript of the qualities of plants as a model).
He talked about the role of the Arabs in the development of herbal science and medicinal plants since the Arab scientific heritage is not a legacy of the ancestors, but a set of experiences of the Arab nation in giving and contributing to the benefit and that most of the studies that dealt with the achievements of the Arabs, in addition to other sources no less important than the Greek source, such as the Babylonian and Egyptian source, and the knowledge and science created by the Arab civilizations before Islam, where the Babylonian clay tablets and the many knowledge created the memory of the transmission of Babylonian and Egyptian science to Greece through commercial communication. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Al-Hiti also presented a research paper entitled (The origin of the word pharmacy), in which he spoke about pharmacy derived from the professionals of collecting medicines and herbs.