Figure 1. Günhan Danisman during his speech at 1001 Inventions Conference.
Ottoman Mining, Metal Working and Fire-Arms Technology in South East Europe (15th-17th centuries)
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The article deals with the impact of Ottoman mining and...
Figure 1: Ibn al-Haytham (here Alhasen) sharing with Galileo the honour of holding up the title page of Hevelius' Selenographia, pub¬lished in 1647. Note the image of the brain on the plinth below Ibn al-Haytham. Image courtesy of the library of the Royal Society.
Arabic Roots of the Scientific Revolution
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It is well known nowadays that modern Scientific Revolution...
Figure 1: Diagram from Kamal al-Din al-Farisi's great work Kitab Tanqih al-Manazir li-dhawi al-absar wa-‘l-basa'ir in which he edited the famous drawing of the nervous system from Kitab al-Manazir of Ibn al-Haytham. Source: Tanqîh al-Manazir, Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Museum Library, Ahmed III, MS 3340, folio 16a.
The Influence of Ibn al-Haytham on Kamal al-Din al-Farisi
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This is a very short note summarizing the lecture presented...
Figure 1: Illuminated page from the Kitab Ihya' ‘Ulum al-Din (Revival of the Religious Sciences), Al-Ghazali's great masterpiece. Manuscript preserved in Tunisia's National Library, Tunis. (Source).
Did Medieval Islamic Theology Subvert Science?
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It is often supposed in Islamic studies that Al-Ghazali...
Figure 1: Location map showing Kerala in India.
Kerala Mathematics and Its Possible Transmission to Europe
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The Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics was an...
Figure 1: Sultan Murad III's firman about al-Tusi's book Tahrir Kitab usul al-Handasa li-Uqlidis printed in Italy in 1594.
The Influence of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi on Ottoman Scientific Literature
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The works of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi have always attracted the...
Figure 1: Professor Peter Adamson. (Source).
Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World
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In the following short report, we present a summary of the...
Figure 1: A folio from the Akhlaq-i Nasiri, a philosophical treatise written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, the prestigious scientist and intellectual. (Source).
Trevor Hilder: A Story About Sustainable History
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After briefly describing his work background, Trevor Hilder...
Figure 1: Timeline (in CE) of Ibn al-Nafis in relation to some of his contemporaries and predecessors. The filled-in event box is for Ibn al-Nafis, the dotted-boundary box for his professor Muhadhdhab al-Din al-Dakhwar and the dashed-boundary box for Ibn al-Quff, one of his most famous students.
Contributions of Ibn al-Nafis to the Progress of Medicine and Urology
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This primary-source study of four medical works of the 13th...
Figure 2: Illustration depicting Ibn al-Haytham by Hanane Kai. (Source).
Nader El-Bizri: Ibn al-Haytham - An Introduction
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This presentation focused on the historical and epistemic...
Figure 1: Imaginary portrait of Ibn al-Haytham. (Source).
Ibn al-Haytham and Psychophysics
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The famous scientist Ibn al-Haytham (‘Alhazen') has rightly...
Figure 1a-b: Two historic maps of Cairo, Egypt: a. Map of 1492 by Schedel; b. map by an unknown artist, 16th century. (Source).
Cairo: A Millennial
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In this article, published originally in Saudi Aramco World...
