unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) is the highest form of theunity of god (tawhid) and the fundamental principle oftheoretical mysticism. it was since ibn al-arabi's time in 7thcentury that theoretical mysticism was consistently developed.since then the concept of unity of being has continued toreceive attention and many scholars have written books andtreatises both in proving and rejecting ...

Cupping Therapy Simulation Course; A Pilot Study Assessing Self Reporting of Confidence, Expectations/Satisfaction and Performance Tamer Aboushanab, Mohammed Khalil, Ahmed El-Olemy, Saud Alsanad 1 National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt....

Imtiaz A. Chaudhry1, Yonca O. Arat2 and Waleed Al-Rashed3 1Senior Academic Consultant, Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon Oculoplastic and Orbit Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin 3Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist, Division of Anterior Segment King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospit...

the present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). the concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of islamic philosop...

This brief account of the Tunisian physician Ibn Al Jazzar heralds the Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine to be held in his native country in September 1998. His life work reveals him as a pioneer in distinguishing the art of medicine and pharmacy.

Arabic manuscripts (almost a third of McGill's Arabic holdings) comprising copies of 62 different works. The manuscripts collected by Osler were acquired mainly from a professional colleague in Hamadhan in western Iran; others were obtained later and originated in the collections of two well-known Islamists: the Russian scholar V. Ivanow, and the German physician and Arab medical historian Max ...

and Shark kulliyyat al-Qanuin), all of which are among Ibn al-Quff's medical works which so far have remained unedited. Other plates represent medieval items and modem examples of art and architecture (ceramics, al-7ahiriyya Library, mosques, al-Madrasa al-'Adiliyya, Baptist Mission Hospital in CAjljfn, Citadel of al-Karak, etc.). Along the lines of his publication on al-Biriuni (see above) Ham...