ORIGINAL PAPER Monotheistic and Spiritual Style Literature in Traditional Medicine’s Resources Hossein Hatami • Ebrahim Afjei • Maryam Hatami • Neda Hatami Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract The basis for success of Iranian Gnostics, poets and scientists were moral teaching, attention to origin and searching for specific goals in creation of human and creatures as well as finding some of his essence in studying all phenomena regarding the creation of universe by divine attitude. There is no surprise that such relationship was bilateral and according to his promise to those who truly follow him such that he will show the right path of learning to human in order to obtain the secrets of life. This relationship has resulted in growth of famous Iranian scientists such as Rhazes, Ahvazi, Avicenna, Ferdousi and… at the beginning of the second millennium. Thus, goal of this research is to study the style of writing in original resources of traditional medicine. In order to increase the accuracy of this study, an electronic database version of traditional medicine resources has been prepared. Writing style of Alhavi book (by Rhazes), Kamel-al-Sanaah (by Ahvazi), Canon of Medicine (by Avicenna) and Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi (by Jorjani) was considered. This task was accomplished by searching using related key words such as God, creator, magnificent, omnipotent, transcendent, omniscient and many other similar words and then encoding them. Finally, content analysis of these words was performed. Hundreds of monotheistic words and many small and great texts related to monotheistic literature have been encountered in the literature, and some are mentioned in the following. Rhazes has started some parts of Alhavi by remembering the name of merciful God and saluting his prophets and has mentioned ‘‘God’’ for more than 570 times and the word H. Hatami (&) Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Daneshjoo Blvd, Tabnak St, Evin, Tehran, Iran e-mail: hatami@hbi.ir E. Afjei Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C. Tehran, Iran M. Hatami Department of Gynecology, Tajrish Shohada Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran N. Hatami Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 123 J Relig Health DOI 10.1007/s10943-012-9647-0