praising of holy prophet is of those topics, which have drawn the poets’ attention since early islamic period and they have versified a lot of poems in this regard. this started with odes from some poets like kaab ibn zohayr, kaab ibn malek, hassan (ibn sabet), and other versifiers of islamic period. despite of its dormancy which governed during omayyad and abbasid dynasties, it resumed moving ...

The relationship between the urban and rural world is examined here from the standpoint of the role of local leaders and their retinues of armed men, their impact on the cities and the impact of the cities on them. In periods of state weakness or disintegration, Afghan cities were unable to resist the ‘solidarity groups’ which had coagulated in the countryside under the pressure of constant con...

prominent topic, with further contributions in physics, astronomy, mechanics, cosmology, and psychology. The questions addressed largely consist of the puzzles of the curious layman (e.g. why is the sky sometimes red, how do flies stick to walls, etc.), presented in the style of the Greek problemata literature. The arguments offered in response are, as one would expect, essentially Aristotelian...

Akıl İslam düşünce geleneğinde geçmişten günümüze önemini korumuş, epistemoloji ve ontolojinin konusu olmuş, kelam, felsefe tasavvufun ortak kavramı olarak her zaman tartışılmış bir kavram güncelliğini korumaktadır. felsefesi özelinde bakıldığında özellikle Fârâbî akıl konusunda sudûr teorisi ekseninde ontolojiyi ile harmanlanmış şekilde aklı izah etmeye çalışmıştır. İbn Sînâ diğer konularda ol...

survey on quranic lexicons dates back to the early years and decades of early islam. abdollah ibn 'abbas can be considered the most famous and outstanding quranic interpreter of all the prophet's companions with the exception of imam ali. some like ignaz goldziher - bringing up a number of illusions and without considering the so many firm and obvious proofs and evidences confirming t...

BACKGROUND Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD), was a Muslim Syrian physician primarily famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The most voluminous of his books is Alshamel fi Sana'at tebbi'at, which is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia. It comprised 300 volumes of notes, from which only ...

the comparison between the views of ibne malek, in alfye, and his son, ibn al-nazem, in sharh ibn al-nazem ‘ala alfiye ibn malek, is one of the most important morphological and grammatical issues in the arabic grammer. alfye (ألفیة ابن مالک) is an educational poetry in arabic grammar that has been versed by ibne malek in the 13th century. at least 43 explanations have been written on this work....

provides us with several answers. First, in recent decades there has been a revival of homeopathic medicine, especially in Germany. The renewed popularity among patients of homeopathic remedies must at least in part be attributed to dissatisfaction with "scientific medicine", the elite of which seems primarily interested in modem medicine's technical tools; as Roy Porter put it in his perceptiv...

among the sources on tasawwuf, the works of ibn al-‘arabi especially hold femininity in high regard. the present study is to illustrate that beyond the transcendental view of ibn al-‘arabi to woman, there are some prominent traces of binary oppositions that, according to hélèn cixous, culminate in different reactions to feminine and masculine roles and ultimately lead to the appearance of patri...