The Memorial Inscriptions of Al-Sultan Al-Nasir Faraj Ibn Barquq mosque (Zawiyat al-Dheisheh)

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...

Introspection of Tawfiq al-Hakim in the Drama al-Sultan al-Ha’ir (The Sultan’s Dilemma): A Brief Discussion

The Drama al-Sulṭân al-Ha’ir, authored by the renowned Arabic dramatist Tawfiq al-Hakim and published in 1960; diffuses introspection on the horrendous milieu prevailed in the countries during the period after the second world war; while the executive heads of the major world states fell in dilemma in matters of conducting political machinery. In fact, the playwright was inspired by the great t...

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...