Keith L. Moore

Keith Leon Moore (5 October 1925 - 25 November 2019) was a professor in the division of anatomy, in the faculty of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moore was associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences in the university’s faculty of Medicine and was Chair of Anatomy from 1976 to 1984. He was a founding member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.

Moore has co-written (with Professor Arthur F. Dalley and Professor Anne M. R. Agur) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, an English-language anatomy textbook. He also co-wrote (with Professor Anne M. R. Agur and Professor Arthur F. Dalley) Essential Clinical Anatomy.

In 1980, Moore was invited to wikipedia/en/Saudi_Arabia to lecture on anatomy and embryology at wikipedia/en/King_Abdulaziz_University. While he was there, Moore was approached by the Embryology Committee of wikipedia/en/King_Abdulaziz_University for his assistance in reinterpreting certain verses in the wikipedia/en/Qur%E2%80%99an and some sayings in the wikipedia/en/Hadiths which referred to wikipedia/en/Human_reproduction and embryological development. Moore said that he was amazed at the scientific accuracy of some of the statements which were made in the 7th century.

For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them reinterpret the many statements in the Qur’an, Sunnah, Kabbalah and Talmud referring to human reproduction and prenatal development. At first, I was astonished by the accuracy of the statements that were recorded in the 7th century AD, before the science of embryology was established.

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