Damascus-Sana
The renewal of the Arabic language in assimilating scientific and technical data and restoring its past glow that illuminated the whole world in the golden age of Arab-Islamic civilization condemns Dr. Morshed Khater, who had the first credit in Arabizing the medical teaching curricula at the Arab Medical Institute in Damascus and who later became an example to be followed in teaching medical sciences Speakers of Dhad.
Regarding his deeply influential role in the Arabization of medicine, researcher Ahmed Bobs mentions that the medical institute, which was founded by Rida Saeed in 1918, was Dr. Murshid Khater Al-Hamel, the basis for the Arabization of teaching curricula in it for his absolute mastery of the Arabic and French languages. Shuka Al-Shatti, Ahmed Hamdi Al-Khayyat, Munir Shura and others.
According to Pops, the Arabization process at the Medical Institute included three aspects: lecturing in Arabic, where Khater made creative and painstaking efforts while addressing the task of teaching medicine in the Arabic language in addition to medical literature in which he relied on two types of Arabization, the first through translation, and translated a number of medical books and dictionaries with the help of a number Secondly, the institute's professors followed the same method of translation with regard to terminology, explaining that his Arabic formulation was of a high degree of accuracy in meaning and structure, and clear and easy even for the non-specialist reader.
The aspects also included the Journal of the Medical Institute, which was founded and headed by Morshed Khater for the period of its publication from 1924 until its suspension in 1947, as it was an important means of encouraging medical research in the Arabic language and encouraged medical institute professors and others to develop medical studies and research in Arabic, which Murshid was linguistically revising. Doctors were embarking on the Arabization of medical terminology, and their findings were published in this regard.
The Arabization of education at the Arab Medical Institute in Damascus was able to gain recognition at the Syrian and Arab levels, and when the medical literature issued by the institute was presented at the International Conference on Diseases of Hot Countries that was held in Cairo in 1928, it won the admiration of the Egyptian doctors who viewed them.
It is noteworthy that Dr. Murshid Khater was born in the village of Battater from the Chouf district in Lebanon in 1888. He received his primary and secondary education at the Al-Hikma School in Beirut and joined the French Medical College at the Jesuit University in Beirut and obtained its degree in 1911 and worked as the head of the surgical department at the Military Hospital in Damascus and held the position of Minister of Health for him 15 medical books and medical dictionaries in both French and Arabic languages containing 40,000 terms.