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...

This paper proposes a declarative language for knowledge representation (Ibn Rochd), and its environment of exploitation (DeGSE). This DeGSE system was designed and developed to facilitate Ibn Rochd writing applications. The system was tested on several knowledge bases by ascending complexity, culminating in a system for recognition of a plant or a tree, and advisors to purchase a car, for peda...

BACKGROUND Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, known as Rhazes in the Western world (854-925 CE), was an Iranian polymath, physician and one of the most prominent sages in the medieval period. He wrote several medical books and treaties such as "Continents", a comprehensive medical encyclopedia, treaties in smallpox and measles, "Al-Mansuri" and many other important manuscripts in the medi...

Karima Issara, Zouhour Boughaleb, Nezha Tawfiq, Zineb Bouchbika, Nadia Benchakroun, Hassan Jouhadi, Souha Sahraoui, Abdellatif Benider Centre Mohammed VI de Traitement des Cancers, CHU Ibn Rochd, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Maroc Corresponding author: Karima Issara, Centre Mohammed VI de Traitement des Cancers, CHU Ibn Rochd, Faculté de Médecine et Pharma...

UNLABELLED Fat hypertrophy, intravascular coagulation, and fat emboli are important risk factors of steroid-induced ischemic bone necrosis (SI-IBN) which may develop during the initial one year after commencing the use of steroids. This pathology is best studied by MRI, particularly for its staging. The cautious strategies such as low dose, oral route, short duration of steroid usage, use of st...

impact on Ibn Tufayl's forerunners, especially Avicenna, whom Ibn Tufayl quotes expressly. Salim Kemal's 'Justifications of poetic validity' gives a very condensed summary of his monograph The poetics ofAlfarabi and Avicenna (Leiden, 1991). But I doubt whether Ibn Tufayl's novel kind of thought experiment can be grasped in terms of Avicenna's poetology. The medieval Latin translators did not co...

The authors regret that there is a mistake in the university name in one of the author’s affiliation. It is written over the article as ‘‘Al-ImamMuhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University’’. The correct one is as follows: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Al ImamMohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. BOX 90950, 11623 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The authors ...