Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries

Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran

Since twelve years when the Traditional and Islamic Medicine Group was founded by The Academy of Medical Sciences of Islamic Republic of Iran., there has always been the interest to organize the research on traditional medicine, to lead it toward an objective, and to introduce its various aspects to the public. On the other hand, the medical science has a long history in Iran. In addition to an...

Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran

Since twelve years when the Traditional and Islamic Medicine Group was founded by The Academy of Medical Sciences of Islamic Republic of Iran., there has always been the interest to organize the research on traditional medicine, to lead it toward an objective, and to introduce its various aspects to the public. On the other hand, the medical science has a long history in Iran. In addition to an...

István György Tóth Missions and Missionaries among the Csángó Hungarians in Moldova in the 17 th Century

Most of the detailed and reliable sources on the life of the Csángó Hungarians in the 17th century are found today in the archives of The Holy Congregation of Propaganda Fide (Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide) in Rome. After the 1622 foundation of the Congregation (a College of Cardinals controlling missions around the world), information multiplied on the life and religious life of the C...

Missionaries and Cannibals in the Causal Calculator

A knowledge representation formalism is \elaboration tolerant" to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. John McCarthy illustrated this idea by deening 19 elaborations of the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem. We argue that, to a certain degree, the goal of elaboration tolerance is met by...

Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China