AḤMAD IBN QĀSIM AL-ḤAJARĪ (d. after 1640), eds. P.S. VAN KONINGSVELD, Q. AL-SAMARRAI, and G.A. WIEGERS, Kitāb nāṣir al-dīn ʿalā ’l-qawm al-kāfirīn (The Supporter of Religion against the Infidels), Se

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what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

the theologian and the mathematician: fakhr al-dīn al-rāzī and the geometrical works of ibn al-haytham

fakhr al-dīn al-rāzī, theologian and philosopher of the 12th centuriy (1148-1209), has a huge literary production in many scholary disciplines of his time. nothwithstanding some original ideas which are mostly found in his theological and philosophical writings, most of his other works are compilations based on other sources. some of these sources still exist, while most of the others seem to h...

ibn al-haytham, kamāl al-dīn al-fārsī and wave motion of light

apart expressing the cause of the reflection of light from the surface of polished objects, ibn al-haytham in his al-manāẓir claims that the acceptance or rejection of light by these objects is only due to their polished surfaces and have nothing to do with their solidity, because the reflection of light from the surface of soft polished objects such as water is also possible. kamāl al-dīn al-f...

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An Electromotive-Force Study of the Activity of Aluminium in Al-Ga, Al-Ge and Al-Ga-Ge Systems

für Naturforschung in cooperation with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Dieses Werk wurde im Jahr 2013 vom Verlag Zeitschrift für Naturforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. digitalisiert und unter folgender Lizenz veröffentlicht: Creative Commons Namen...