Arabic literature: Ali Ahmed Ba-Kathir’s Omar ibn Al-Khattab an epic verse drama (1)

A Review of Ferdous al-Hekma fil-Tibb by Ali ibn Raban Tabari

T Ferdous al-Hekma (Paradise of Wisdom) is one of the oldest medical texts in the Islamic world written in Arabic in 850 AD by Ali ibn Raban Tabari. He was a Persian physician who moved from Tabaristan (Mazandaran province of modern day Iran) to Samarra during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-861 AD). We studied the book of Ferdous al-Hekma fil-Tibb, in an attempt to comprehen...

why arabic literature lacks epic poetry

epic poetry is a sort of ancient literature which exists in most of the world's literatures such as roman, greek, indian and iranian; but arabic literature has not used this type of literature. major reasons for this are as follows: 1. lack of nationalistic sense 2. arabic poetry is mostly based on vocality 3. there haven't been real long term wars between arabs 4. arabic poetry has h...

An Epic Drama: The Development of the Prime Number Theorem

The prime number theorem, describing the aymptotic density of the prime numbers, has often been touted as the most surprising result in mathematics. The statement and development of the theorem by Legendre, Gauss and others and its eventual proof by Hadamard and de al Vallée-Poussin span the whole nineteenth century and encompass the growth of a brand new field in analytic number theory. As an ...

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

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...