Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

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

Primary health care in the Arab world

WILHELM WEBER and EDUARD WEBER, Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, transl. P. Maquet and R. Furlong, Berlin and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xix, 273, illus., DM 168.00 (3-540-53541-1). This is the latest in a series of classic works on animal and human locomotion translated for Springer-Verlag, including Giovanni Borelli On the movement of animals first published in 1680, and Wi...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...