this article is concerned with a comparative review of jahân-nâme   by mohammad bin najib bakran and manuscripts of masâlek va mamâlek by abu al-hasan sâʽid bin ali jurjâni written by during the middle of ninth century ah. from this review it becomes clear that jorjâniʼs main source in writing his book was jahân-nâme and therefore jahân-nâme is also a good source for editing the masâlek.  howev...

one reading (qara'at) of asr sura, , which is inconsistent with other valid readings, has been attributed to ali (p.b.u.h). because this reading contains additions to the asr sura, its acceptation is not possible. a survey of two chains of traditions about this reading of the asr sura attributed to ali (p.b.u.h) shows that these traditions are of isolated type (khabar vahed). it also shows...

* ** *** **** ***** Bashir Ahmed , Hamid Raza , Kamlaish , Absar Anwar , Zain Ali Assistant Professor Anesthesiology and ICU, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi. Assistant Professor Anesthesiology and ICU, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro. Consultatn Anesthetist, Dow University of Health Sciences, Civil Hospital Karachi. Intern, Dow Univeristy of...

Many of the plant species found that it can be used medically (Ali-Shtayeh and Abu, 1999). Essential oils are aromatic substances which are obtained from various plant parts by steam distillation; many of which exhibit antibacterial (Ozcan et al., 2006), antifungal (Chee and Lee, 2007) and antiviral (Khan et al., 2005) activity. Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is widely used in traditional med...

kashf al-mahjoub is the first persian independent mystical text, written by abu al-hasan ali bin osman al-jolabi al-hojwiri al-qaznavi which contains valuable information about different subjects of sufism. since one of the effective methods on which one can understand a sufi’s viewpoints and can figure out his ideology and even his anagogic and mystical psychology is to analyze his esoteric in...

concerning the article on ”cataract surgery in albucasis manuscript” pages 75-76 which is published in this issue of iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) a few points took my attention worth mentioning.     the science of ophthalmology and cataract surgery was developed 6,000 years ago, not in egypt but at mesopotamian region. the babylonians mastered this science 2,000 years before the glor...

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