Abu Ja'far Ahmad b. Abi Khalid Ibn al-Jazzar, born in Qayrawan, the medieval capital of Tunisia, hailed from a family of physicians. ' His father IbrThim was a doctor, as was his paternal uncle Abu Bakr. He studied with the famous Jewish philosopher and physician Ishaq b. Sulayman al-Isra'ili (c. 243/855-343/955),2 who had been a student of Ishaq ibn 'Imran (d. 296/908),3 and who at the age of ...

After years of painstaking research Dr. Giuseppe Scattolin has at last published his critical edition of Ibn al-Fa≠rid ̋'s D|wa≠n. While Ibn al-Fa≠rid ̋ lived during the Ayyubid period, his verse was a dominant influence on later Arabic poetry composed under the Mamluks. Moreover, his verse and mystical ideas were, at times, sources of contention among factions of ulama during Mamluk rule, while ...

This autobiography already makes for absolutely fascinating reading. Ibn Khaldūn lived an itinerant life serving as a magistrate for—in modern geographic terms— Spanish, Moroccan, Tunisian and Egyptian Islamic courts. In that function in Granada, Spain, he negotiated treaties with the Christian Spanish crown (with Pedro the Cruel, which does not sound too encouraging). The autobiography follows...

BACKGROUND Using a nude rat model of site-specific metastatic bone disease (MBD), we developed a semiquantitative histological score for rapid assessment of lytic lesions in bone. This provides additional information to conventional histological measurement by clarifying the extent and location of metastatic infiltration and the tumor growth pattern. The score can also be used to assess the act...

yüzyılda başlayan özellikle de XII. yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinde hızlanan Arapçadan İbraniceye tercüme süreci XVI. sonlarına kadar devam etmiştir. Bu süreçte Fârâbî, İbn Sînâ, Gazzâlî ve Rüşd gibi önde gelen Müslüman filozofların felsefe teolojiye dair eserleri doğrudan ya da aracı diller üzerinden edilmiştir. sürecinde Arapça bilen Yahudi düşünür mütercimler bir yandan farklı alanlardan seçtikleri ...

This study analyzes the conception of gharar , which is generally translated as either risk or uncertainty, in post-formative Islamic commercial law. According to Muslim jurists, gharar arises from uncertainty in commercial transactions. However, unlike other areas of the Islamic intellectual tradition in which uncertainty engenders errors, the uncertainty associated with gharar enables jurists...

Ibn Cena (1020 A.D.) described the anatomy of the human heart, ascending aorta and the inferior vein, and postulated anastomoses of the arteries with the veins in the extremeties to keep. the blood in circulation and suggested the presence Qf interatrial communication during the earlier stages of life. Abu Sahl Masihi (1027 A.D., elucidated the vena caval drainage into the right ventricle and t...

Yaşadığı zamanın ve bundan yüzyıllar sonraki modern dönemin şüphesiz en meşhur tartışmalı isimlerinden/figürlerinden biri Hanbelî alim İbn Teymiyye’dir (ö. 1328). 14. yüzyıl İslam dünyasının temel meselelerine dair sayısız fetva kaleme almış usûlü’d-dîn, fıkıh, hadis, tefsir gibi birçok ilmin aslî konularını kapsayan hacimli eserler yazmıştır. Teymiyye’nin hem entelektüel ilmî duruşuna de serde...