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...

alopecia areata is a dermatologic disorder which presents itself with sudden and patchy hair loss. the aim of this study is to assess the issues related to the similar condition in ancient manuscripts of traditional persian medicine. this is a descriptive review study in which a number of well-known traditional persian manuscripts such as; kamil al-sina’a al-tibbiyyaby al-majusi, ‘ali ibn al-’a...

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...

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...