musa¦ ibn `oqba is one of the biographers who, along with ibn isha¦q, has a significant contribution to the recording of the prophet's life style (sira) and the early battles led by him. however, his book of the accounts of the prophet's early battles (maqa¦zi) was badly damaged with the passage of time and the reasons have not been so clear uptonow. due to its antiquity, the book was...

quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī wrote several huge works not only on mathematical sciences and philosophy, but also on medicine: a commentary on volume 1 of ibn sīnā’s al-qānūn fī al-ṭibb entitled al-tuḥfa al-saʿdīya in nine volumes. this is not surprising because quṭb al-dīn came from a family of physicians and he received medical education in his youth by reading ibn sīnā’s qānūn. this enormous commentar...

The Finite Transmission Feedback Information (FTFI) capacity is characterized for any class of channel conditional distributions { PBi|Bi−1,Ai : i= 0,1, . . . ,n } and { PBi|Bi−1 i−M ,Ai : i= 0,1, . . . ,n } , where M is the memory of the channel, Bn 4 = {B j : j = 0,1, . . . ,n} are the channel outputs and An 4 = {A j : j = 0,1, . . . ,n} are the channel inputs. The characterizations of FTFI c...

al-aqad was a contemporary prominent critic and writer of egypt who by authoring the book about ibn al rumi life and his poems‚ tried to present thoughtful view points, about this great poet. he believed that ibn al-rumi was a great poet of abbasi era and was a poet laureate of his contemporary poets but unlike his literary position‚ he was not supported by the kings. it is worth noting that be...

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...

Department of Psychology University of Ghana. Legon-Accra School of Counselling and Educational Psychology Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) Indianapolis, Indiana USA Corresponding Author: Samuel Atindanbila ___________________________________________________________________________ This paper is aimed at describing the practices of African Traditional Healers, highligh...

Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab took the verses revealed to speak about the blasphemers and applied them to the Muslims. This verse means: [Who is more astray than the one who performs supplication (du'a') to [worship] other than Allah; the one other than Allah he supplicates to will not answer his du'a'.]