ibn baabak and his connection to literary movement during his lifetime

Avicenna and his literary

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Avicenna and his literary

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Chaucer and His Literary Background

Chaucer and His Literary Background

Performance on this year’s Chaucer exam was, on the whole, excellent. The majority of students showed an admirable knowledge of both Chaucer’s own writings and the texts that informed these. The understanding of both was, for the most part, impressive – in some cases very impressive indeed. A sizeable number of candidates had ventured widely – sometimes very widely – in their reading, and were ...

Chaucer and His Literary Background

Ibn a`Nnafees and his masterpiece "al-Mujaz"

Abu-al-Hassan, Ala-a`Ddeen Ali Ibn Abe`l-Hazm Ibn a`Nnafees al-Qurashi a`Ddimashqi (607-687 A.H.) was born in Damascus, wherein he grew up and was occupied studying sciences as syntax, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, tradition, logic, etc. His most well known masters in medicine were Muhadhdhib a`Ddeen a`Ddakhwar and Umran Israeli. After completing his studies, he left Damascus for Cairo, wh...