Pharmaceutical Historiography

Circulation of antibiotics: an introduction.

The history of twentieth-century medical drugs is a research subject to which many contributions are currently being made from history of science, medicine and from history of industry 1. The historiography of antibiotics has in good part underlined the role of penicillin as the pioneer miracle since its creation in the 1940s. Penicillin became the emblematic wonder-drug of the post-WWII years ...

Empirical Horizons in Islamic Historiography: Abū Rayḥān Al-Birunī

From the main features of the tradition of Islamic historiography is variety of its forms, types, methods, topics and schools. However, today, Islamic historiography is known by its mere narrative methods and schools, which are only part of this widespread tradition. In other words, the narrative aspect of Islamic historiography have overshadowed its other aspects. Therefore, researchers in thi...

Military historiography in Islamic period: from the beginning to the end of Mamalik era

Reporting of Arab’s battles was an object of consideration in Islamic historiography. About 1400 conflicts between benighted Arab tribes have been recorded in Islamic sources. Accurate reporting of the wars of the Prophet and conquests of the caliphs was also one of the most important topics of interests to Islamic historians in the Islamic era until the gradual emergence of a bunch of military...

The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography

Analyzing Abu-Rayhan Birouni's historiographic approaches; by emphasize on his social approach

Al-Birouni's abilities in natural sciences have also affected his historian character. Among his several works, Al-Athar Al-Bakiyah and Tahkik Ma Li-l-Hind are the two most important books written by new method of historiography. Since Birouni has been one of few scholars of experimental sciences who has seriously practiced historiography, analysis of various aspects of his historiography is ne...