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Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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When a sixteenth-century medical writer referred to Phoenicians, alongside Arabs, as exceptionally important...


Manuscript Review: The Clear Exposition of the Principles of Accountability, by Ibn al-Ukhuwwah
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[Ibn al-Ukhuwwah] provides a summary of the positive and negative injunctions contained in the standard codes...


A Sanctuary for Birds: Muslim Civilisation
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Few creatures from the animal kingdom can live alongside humans in urban habitats. One of these survivalists...


Manuscript Review: Treatise on ‘The Alive Son of the Awake’, by Ibn Tufayl
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Besides [Ibn Tufayl's] contributions in medicine, he is best known for his treatise Ilayyu Ibn Yaqzan (‘The...


Malika IV: Hurrem Sultan (Roxolana)
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From Bangladesh to Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, Senegal to Turkey, it is not particularly rare in our own...


Astronomy in Medieval Jerusalem
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Various medieval Arabic manuscripts preserved in libraries around the world – Leipzig, Cairo, Princeton, and...