Nichiren's Writings and his Chu-Hokekyo

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...

Imam Ali’s (PBUH) place and the effects of his hadiths in writings of Kamal al-Din Abd al-Razzaq

Imam Ali (PBUH) has a great place in Sufi ideology. The reflection of Imam’s words in their works is a manifestation of this high status. One of the great Sufis is Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq Kashani (b. 650-660- d. 736 AH) is the inheritor of the Suhrawardiyah way and Ibn-Arabichr('39')s thoughts, whose special devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUT), especially Imam Ali, is reflected in his writings. Thi...

Theophrastus of Eresus: sources for his life, writings, thought and influence

century AD, and its relationships with two other tracts, the Mulomedicina Chironis, perhaps written about the same time, and the Mulomedicina of Vegetius, written in the first half of the fifth century. But there are also illuminating comments on earlier veterinary authors, including Celsus, and a long section on Greek influence on Pelagonius. Adams suggests that he himself translated one major...