Abū l'Khattab ben 'Abd al-'Ala

Empirical Horizons in Islamic Historiography: Abū Rayḥān Al-Birunī

From the main features of the tradition of Islamic historiography is variety of its forms, types, methods, topics and schools. However, today, Islamic historiography is known by its mere narrative methods and schools, which are only part of this widespread tradition. In other words, the narrative aspect of Islamic historiography have overshadowed its other aspects. Therefore, researchers in thi...

abd- al sami’ yazdi & al-orwat al-wothqa poems

abd- al sami’ ibn-mohammad-ali- yazdi is one of the lettered, jurists & poets of 13th century (a.h) that has done valuable services to the arabic language and literature like so many other iranian. so far, there are only a few biographical books in which he has been mentioned or introduced. unfortunately he has been forgotten during the passage of time. most of his writings are in arabic and th...

Abū l-`Alā' Zuhr (m. 525/1130): Kitāb al-Muŷarrabāt (Libro de las experiencias médicas)

sets of Roman medical instruments for the range of medical and surgical operations which might have been carried out during the period of their use, and the extent of specialization by Roman practitioners. The second section, covering "women, children and sexuality", is less extensive and wide ranging. It includes papers by Danielle Gourevitch, who draws attention to the instructions provided b...

Mostafa Abd El Meguid

Imam Ali’s (PBUH) place and the effects of his hadiths in writings of Kamal al-Din Abd al-Razzaq

Imam Ali (PBUH) has a great place in Sufi ideology. The reflection of Imam’s words in their works is a manifestation of this high status. One of the great Sufis is Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq Kashani (b. 650-660- d. 736 AH) is the inheritor of the Suhrawardiyah way and Ibn-Arabichr('39')s thoughts, whose special devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUT), especially Imam Ali, is reflected in his writings. Thi...