Adab without the Crusades

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

The State of Medicine at the Time of the Crusades

It is fitting that I begin by letting you know how much I value the compliment you pay me in asking me to address you on the occasion of the opening of the new session. It is a great honour to have Mr. Corkey introduce me to this distinguished audience. To our younger colleagues here for the first time, I would like to add a few words of welcome to those of our Chairman and to say that you have...

The Islamic Unity in the Crusades: Obstacles and Strategies

In the middle ages, the Crusaders possessed some parts of the western territory of the Islamic world and continued their establishment until the 6th and 7th centuries. Considering religious teachings regardless of ethnic, political, and religious diversity could have played a strategic role in how Muslims faced the crusaders. The main question of the research is how Islamic unity doctrines in t...

Constructing Kingship; The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades

Despite their presence in the popular imagination and their undoubted importance in the narrative of medieval history, the Crusades have for a long time sat apart from mainstream medieval historiography. Traditionally, the Crusades themselves are as peripheral in the minds of historians of Europe as they were geographically. As a result, they are either treated separately or consigned to a curs...

Significant associations of antidrug antibody levels with serum drug trough levels and therapeutic response of adalimumab and etanercept treatment in rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the associations between (1) antidrug antibody (ADAb) and therapeutic response, (2) ADAb and serum drug trough levels and (3) serum drug levels and therapeutic responses in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients receiving adalimumab or etanercept. Secondarily, we aim (1) to evaluate the concordance between radioimmunoassay and bridging ELISA for ADAb assessment and to evaluate...