Ali Dede Al-Bosnawi’s Rhymed Translation to Al-Ruhiyyah Poem by İbn Sina

Ali S. Al-Aufi

The emergence of networked information and communication has transformed the accessibility and delivery of scholarly information and fundamentally impacted on the processes of research and scholarly communication. The purpose of this study is to investigate disciplinary differences in the use of networked information for research and scholarly communication at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Th...

Ali S. Al-Aufi

Green incentives are included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and an ultimate solution to the current U.S. and global economic and financial crisis. The article...

Critique of Arabic Texts/ Critical Review of Al-Adab al-Arabi Min-Asr al-Jahili, Ali Ghahramani and Masoud Bavanpour

Latin Equivalents of Brain Membranes: A Solid Proof of Connection between Liber Pantegni by Constantine the African and Kāmil Al-Ṣināʻa Al-Ṭibbīya by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Mağūsī

'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Mağūsī, one of the prominent physician during Būyid dynasty (also called Buwayhid), lived between the lifetime of Razes and Avicenna the two legendary characters of medicine. He wrote a medical encyclopedia for the royal library of Aḍud al-Dawla (949-983) and named it Kāmil al-Ṣināʿa al-Ṭibbīya (i.e., complete medical art). This book could be considered the first medical c...

Introduction of Kitab Al-Abnija al haqaiq al-Adwiya a book written by Heravi

The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...