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...

al-mansour mohammad ibn-e abi amer was the mighty chamberlain of hisham (moayyad), the omavite caliph of andalusia (caliphate 366-399). his period is simultaneous with the beginning of the moslems' military weakness and the anarchic circumstances in the rule of moslems over andalusia, as the christians dared to transgress the borderlines of, andalusia, and plunder and kill people there. al...

Mohammad Reza Fakoorziba, Mohammad Assareh, Davood Keshavarzi, Aboozar Soltani, Mohammad Djafar Moemenbellah-Fard, Mohammad Zarenezhad Research Centre for Health Sciences, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Med...

ali-ibn-e-abbas-al-majusi, well known as haly abbas in the west, a physician, surgeon and psychologist of buyid dynasty era, lived in the 10th century (a.d). he, along with tabari, razi, avicienna, and jorjani, established the foundation of islamic medicine. he authored “kamilu sina’at” or “al-kitab al-maliki” (the royal book), a book on medicine which was used in european universities until th...

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 ...