Al-Hakim Mosque, Cairo (990-1012)
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Hama is famed for its huge water wheels and it produced...
Figure 1. Plan of Al-Hakim Mosque showing the five aisled prayer hall and porticoes resembling the Al-Azhar Mosque.
Al-Hakim Mosque, Cairo (990-1012)
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Al Hakim Mosque is the second major Fatimid Mosque and the...
Al-Razi the Medical Scholar
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Al-Razi was "a writer of rare and incredible productiveness...
One of the small mahfills in Suleymaniye Mosque
Influence of Acoustic Data in Architectural Design
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Sinan's is renowned for its success in the acoustic design...
The Mosque of Djenne, Mali
West African Mosque Architecture - A Brief Introduction
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Mosques built in parts of the Muslim world where Arabs...
The Scholars of Seville – Artists, Architecture and Government
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Seville was a key centre of Islamic Civilisation in Spain....
Professor Sevim Tekeli - a short autobiography
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Sevim Tekeli is Emeritus Professor, History of Science...
The Kayseri Hospital (Gevher Nesibe Sultan Shifahâna). Drawn by Suheyl Unver
Educating Ottoman Physicians
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Medical doctors in the time of the Ottomans had various...
The Earliest Paediatric Surgical Atlas: Cerrahiye-i Ilhaniye
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The author of one of the earliest surgical books was...
Figure 1: Page from The Result of Thinking about the Cure of Eye Diseases (Natijat al-fikar fi `ilaj amrad al-basar) written in Cairo by Fath al-Din al-Qaysi (d. 1259/657 H). Copy finished by unnamed scribe on 16 November 1501 (5 Jumada I 907 H). National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, MS A48, fols. 7b-8a (Source).
Anaesthesia 1000 Years Ago (II)
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The following research article in a particular field of the...
Figure 1: Drawing of the cross section of the Brain and the Eyes made by the 13th century Khalifa ibn Abi Al Mahasin Al-Halabi (from Aleppo) in his book Al-Kafi Fi Al-Kuhl (The Book of Sufficient Knowledge in Ophthalmology) (Source).
Anaesthesia 1000 Years Ago (I)
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