Abu Bakr Al-Bayhaqi and his Approach to Sifat Traditions

Qualifying and quantifying medical uncertainty in 10th-century Baghdad: Abu Bakr al-Razi.

Al-Razi rose to become a hospital director both in Rayy (his home town, and now a suburb of Tehran) and Baghdad. This hospital environment proved important for his medical research. By the 10th century, hospitals in Baghdad had developed into quite sophisticated institutions. For instance, in the 920s and 930s, a powerful vizier by the name ‘Ali ibn ‘Isa endeavoured to improve public health, bo...

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL-TIN AL NISHABURI

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL- TIN AL NISHABURI

Analyzing Abu-Rayhan Birouni's historiographic approaches; by emphasize on his social approach

Al-Birouni's abilities in natural sciences have also affected his historian character. Among his several works, Al-Athar Al-Bakiyah and Tahkik Ma Li-l-Hind are the two most important books written by new method of historiography. Since Birouni has been one of few scholars of experimental sciences who has seriously practiced historiography, analysis of various aspects of his historiography is ne...

A Comparative Study between the Texts and Images of Abu Bakr and Imam ‘Ali in the Ilkhanid and Timurid Copies of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh

Among the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh manuscripts produced in the Rabʿ-i Rashidi, four copies have survived: one in Arabic and three in Persian. A century after their transcription, all these manuscripts were in the possession of the Timurid ruler, Shahrukh. Since these manuscripts were incomplete, Shahrukh ordered Hafiz-i Abru to complete the Persian copies. In the process of completion of one of these ...