This article will present what we know of the life and times of an important alchemist, Ibn Umayl. It is entitled ‘Towards a Context’ because I have not yet consulted a number of his treatises, which are mostly only available as manuscripts. Ibn Umayl’s position in alchemy accords with Hermetic doctrines, and may have developed as a traditionalist reaction to developments in alchemy around the ...

Centre de Référence de Médecine et de Réanimation Néonatale de l’Hôpital d’Enfants de Rabat, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Avenue Ibn Rochd, Agdal, Rabat, Maroc, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation URAC 39, Université Ibn Tofail-CNESTEN, RDC-Nutrition AFRA/AIEA, Maroc, Equipe de Recherche en Santé et Nutrition du Couple Mère-Enfant, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharm...

A close look at the writings of the Middle Eastern and North African scholars who lived in the Middle Ages (roughly between A.D. 476-1500) reveals an immense body of theoretical knowledge pertaining to the humanities, and behavioral and social sciences. A partial list of the scholars who wrote on these issues includes names such as Abu Yusuf (8th century), Abul-Fadl Al-Dimishgi (9th century), A...

Thomas J. Forbes, MD,* Dennis W. Kim, MD, PHD,† Wei Du, PHD,* Daniel R. Turner, MD,*† Ralf Holzer, MD,‡ Zahid Amin, MD,¶ Ziyad Hijazi, MD,¶ Abdolrahim Ghasemi, MD,§ Jonathan J. Rome, MD, David Nykanen, MD,# Evan Zahn, MD,# Collin Cowley, MD,** Mark Hoyer, MD,†† David Waight, MD,‡‡ Daniel Gruenstein, MD,§§ Alex Javois, MD, Susan Foerster, MD,¶¶ Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD,## Nancy Sullivan, MS, CCRC...

Hanae Harchaoui, Bousayna Iraqi, Houria knouni, Youness Taboz, Hasnae Benkirane, Hassan Aguenaou, Amina Barkat Equipe de recherche en santé et nutrition du couple mère enfant, faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Rabat, université Mohamed VRABAT, Service de médecine et réanimation néonatales, Centre Hospitalier Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc 2 Université Ibn Tofail, Unité Mixte. Corresponding author:...

Stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is caused by a disturbance of the blood supply to the brain and an accruing loss of brain function. The first recorded observations were in 2455 BC and it has been studied intensely by ancient physicians throughout history. In the early medieval period, Ibn Sina (980-1025 AD) called stroke sekteh and described it extensively. Some of Ibn Sina's definitio...

Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), known by his full name Abu Ali al-Hussain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina and the Latin name 'Avicenna', was a Persian scholar who is primarily remembered for his contributions to the science of medicine. He authored Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). Sections of his work are devoted to detailed descriptions of a number of infectious illnesses, particularly rabies. Avice...

Ibn Sina is generally known as one of the most important philosophers and physicians, one whose contributions to science and philosophy have attracted numerous studies. This article provides an outline of his philosophy of science which determined the framework for his understanding of natural philosophy. Rather than being of historical interest, the article argues, Ibn Sina's philosophy of sci...

During the 1020s Ibn Sı̄nā wrote a commentary in Arabic on the logical works of Aristotle, as part of his encyclopedia Al-Šifā’ (The Cure). The commentary runs to some 2180 pages in the recent Cairo edition; this figure includes his commentary Madk ̄ al on Porphyry’s Eisagōgē, which he counted as an introduction to Aristotle’s work. Apart from the Madk ̄ al which was translated into Latin in the 1...

Ibn Sina is regarded as one of the greatest physicians, thinkers and medical scholars in the history of medicine. Ibn Sina, a Persian scholar in the medieval era, wrote a famous book of medicine, the Canon of Medicine. The book was adopted as the main textbook of medicine in most Western and Persian universities. In the present critique, we analyzed the functional and anatomic descriptions of t...