Articles by Gaston Wiet in the 1920s, M. Perlmann in 1942, and Donald Little in 1976 have encouraged the perception that the first century of the Mamluk period marked a turning-point in the history of Coptic conversion to Islam. According to Wiet in his article on the Copts in the Encyclopaedia of Islam: "The government of the Mamluks gave the coup de grâce to Christianity in Egypt," and he goe...

Ancient Egypt was one of the most advanced and productive civilizations in antiquity, spanning 3000 years before the "Christian" era. Ancient Egyptians built colossal temples and magnificent tombs to honor their gods and religious leaders. Their hieroglyphic language, system of organization, and recording of events give contemporary researchers insights into their daily activities. Based on the...

Mathews Journal of Dentistry Cytotoxicity of Dental Ceramics Used for Manufacturing Dental Fixed Prosthesis: A Systematic Review Waleed Elshahawy1 1Department of Fixed Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University, Tanta, 31111, Egypt. Corresponding Author: Waleed Elshahawy, Department of Fixed Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University, Tanta, 31111, Egypt, Tel: 2-0106-875...

considering increment in fundamentalism movements in recent decades, especially in islamic society, objective of this work is to survey and analyzing effect of social crisis and globalization on development of fundamentalism movements in egypt. this assay is up to answer that what is the role of social crisis as major variant and globalization as intensifier on emergence of fundamentalism movem...

Although the history of modern medical reforms in nineteenth-century Egypt has received considerable attention from historians and scholars, the history of medicine when the country was under Ottoman rule from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, is still largely unexplored.1 In the opinion of many scholars this was a time when the medical sciences in Egypt declined, qualified learned physi...

Pipazethate HCl is a centrally acting non-narcotic antitussive which is infrequently used nowadays. The toxicity of this drug is rarely reported in the literature. We were encountered with a case of accidental ingestion of Pipazethate HCl in a 3-years-old child presented with neurological symptoms in the form of somnolence, disturbed sensorium, respiratory symptoms in the form of respiratory di...

Traditional medicine has been used since the dawn of history for treating human illness. Herbal medicine constituted the main type of traditional medicine. This type of treatment prevailed during different times of history in different countries, may be until the beginning of the 19th century. By that time a scientific revolution, in nearly all fields started. Much progress was made in the fiel...

Potato tuberworm, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), is the most serious insect pest of potatoes worldwide. The introduction of the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin gene through genetic engineering offers host plant resistance for the management of potato tuberworm. We report on the field and storage studies to evaluate Bt-cry5 potato lines for resistance to potato tuberworm in Egypt under natu...

The Ninth meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Leprosy Control was held in Cairo, Egypt on 6th and 7th March 2008. The meeting was chaired by Professor W.C.S. Smith and attended by national leprosy programme managers from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia, Egypt, Iran, India, Nigeria and Thailand. In addition, several experts and members of the Technical Commiss...

Mahmoud F. Seleiman1,3, Shaimaa Selim2,4, Seija Jaakkola2 and Pirjo S.A. Mäkelä1 1Department of Agricultural Sciences, Crop Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 27, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 2Department of Agricultural Sciences, Animal Nutrition, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 28, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 3Permanent address: Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Men...