Bayt al-Maqdis from the Perspective of Ibn Sa`d’s Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr

Kitāb al-shukūk `alā Jālīnūs li-l-tabīb al-faylasūf Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī

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...

justice from the perspective of al-farabi and ibn khaldun

justice is a fundamental concept in islam. numerous thinkers have reflected upon it. the present article aims to study the meaning of justice from the perspective of al-farabi and ibn khaldun by a qualitative content analysis-based literature review, and in the end, assess their strategies of confronting injustice. it is worth noting that al-farabi and ibn khaldun belong to different historical...

Ibn Al-Haytham: father of modern optics.

After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...

The \"Kitab al-Shukuk\'alas Jalinus\" of Muhammad ibn Zachariya al-Razi

Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn al-Baiṭār

Even for the knowledgeable, the tasks get vitiated by the blemishes of fate or the gods, or the human nature. It is not impossible to divine what is meant here, but how much more idiomatically it could have been done: Things go wrong, even for the wise, because of the iniquities of fate and of men. The bibliographical control of source works is almost non-existent, although this is not always a...