Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies. London/New York, I.B. Tauris/The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2005, 259 p.

Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society

AVNER GIL'ADI, Children of Islam: concepts of childhood in medieval Muslim society, St Antony's/Macmillan Series, Basingstoke and Oxford, Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, 1992, pp. xii, 176, £40.00 (0-333-55598-8). This volume is a collection of eight studies by the author on various aspects of the history of childhood in medieval Islamic society. A useful introduction surveys...

The Significance of Traditional Islamic Art for the Life of Muslim Societies in the Modern World

Isma’ili Thesis on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Though it is widely assumed that Sunni Islam does not have an equivalent to the Christian ecclesiastical hierarchy, Shii groups such as the Medieval Ismailis did have an organised teaching, spiritual, and temporal hierarchy. Evidence gathered from primary sources shows that this Ismaili 'ecclesiastical' hierarchy is strictly intertwined with the Ismaili interpretation of Neoplatonic cosmology a...

New York State Psychiatric Institute

Based on a paper given at the 40 meeting of the German Society of Psychology in Munich, 1996. We greatly acknowledge the contributions of our colleagues Gisela Erdmann (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), Kenneth Hugdahl, Helge Nordby, and Dag Hammerborg (University of Bergen, Norway) while designing and realizing this research, and we appreciate the financial support from the G.-A.-Liene...

Biol. Pharm. Bull. 28(2) 253—259 (2005)

uitously found in plants. Fruits and vegetables, as well as popular beverages such as wine, tea, and coffee, are the main dietary sources of flavonoids. It has been reported that flavonoids show pharmacological effects such as antioxidant, antiviral, antitumor, and antiinflammatory activities. In particular, their antioxidant activity has attracted much attention as a possible dietary preventiv...