The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The ancient Iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and Greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the European countries in the 13th century. The Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur ...

salm ibn amr khasir the first abbasid poet born in basra.he was a pupil and narrator of the poet bashar ibn burd. he acquired his nickname (the loser),when he sold a copy of the quran in exchange for a book of verse; other explanations are also given. when young,he moved to baghdad and became a panegyrist of the ‘abbasid caliphs,the barmakids, in especial fadl barmaki,and other leading persons....

maqamat of  badi al- zaman is the most valuble arab old works, that it could pay attention rapidly literary men and even public people, because of badi al- zaman be able to use with own rare creativity and intelligence for the first time  alot story elements such as characte, event, plot, scene, dialogue, realty-view. character and characterize is the basic story elements in maqamat and communi...

the tradition attributed to the prophet that he said: «» (verily god created adam in his visage) is one of the bases of sufis ideology and ibn arab? (ab? 'abdill?h muhammad ibn 'al? ibn muhammad ibn `arab?), the founder of theoretical sufism (irfan nazari), often refers to it in his works. in his most famous work named: the al - fut?h?t al-makkiyyah, he attempts to show the correlatio...

the practice and study of medicine in persia has a long and prolific history. the ancient iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from mesopotamia, egypt, india, china and greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the european countries in the 13th century. the iranian academic centers like jundishapur ...

leech therapy was popular for many centuries. while many research studies have supported the medical use of hirudo medicinalis, other species have not received that much attention. due to the large demand and lack of supply, more research is needed to justify the medical use of other species. ibn al quffprovided general guidelines on differentiating between the beneficial and toxic types of lee...

there are references to aristotle’s view points about meteorology in ?asfizari’s treatise entitled athar-i ulwi that have not been existed in the arabic translation of aristotle’s meteorologica. ibn bitr?k, the arabic translator, did not translate some parts of the book and there are mistakes in his translation. asfizari has also mentioned some points which cannot be found in the original work ...

muhammad ibn jarir al-tabari (839-923) was a moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of islam. he is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the koran. at tabari wrote history, theology and qur'anic commentary. his legal writings were published first and then continued to appear throughout his life. next were his ...

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...