
JBIMA’s 1001 Cures Book Review
1001 Cures – Contributions in Medicines & Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation (Edited by Peter Pormann,…
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The Role of Religion in the Development of Mathematical Sciences in Medieval Islamic Civilization
The rise of Islamic Civilization was one of the major events in world history. An…
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MACFEST Event: Medicine in the Middle East with Dr Peter Pormann
Join Peter Pormann to learn about the forgotten history of Arabic language contribution to Scientific…
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Al-Jazari’s Peacock Clock (1206 CE)
The Peacock Clock is the sixth machine described by al-Jazari in his famous treatise of…
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Food Production and Food Security Management in Muslim Civilization
This article attempts to describe and analyse food production and food security management practices and…
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Video: AUB Beirut COVID-19 Briefings Ep 7 with George Saliba
The American University of Beirut - Episode 7 of COVID-19 Briefings: Pandemic Lessons from Arabic-Islamic…
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Video: Prof Salim Al Hassani @ Digital Light: Codemakers Bletchley Park 2019
A video of Prof Salim Al-Hassani's speech about Muslim Civilisation's contribution in optics and cryptology…
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The Orbital Elements of Venus in Medieval Islamic Astronomy: Interaction Between Traditions and the Accuracy of Observations
The orbital elements of each planet are the eccentricity and the direction of the apsidal…
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Natural Drugs in Greco-Arabic and Islamic Medicine
This article has been produced from Chapter 6 "Contributions of Arab and Islamic Scholars to…
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The Observational Instruments at the Maragha Observatory after AD 1300
The present paper introduces, investigates, analyses, and comments on an anonymous treatise in Persian named…
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Agriculture Image Gallery
Browse through selected images taken from Muslim Heritage articles related to Agriculture...
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Hospital Development In Muslim Civilisation
The idea behind hospitals in the Muslim world a thousand years ago was to provide…
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Soul and Body
The reciprocity between soul and body represents one of the core principles of Arabic medicine.…
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Biruni’s Telescopic-Shape Instrument for Observing the Lunar Crescent
This paper deals with an optical aid named barbakh that Abū al-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (973–1048 CE)…
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Video: Plague and Contagion in the Premodern Muslim Mediterranean
This talk by Justin K Stearns reviews the diversity of views on contagion and plague…
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The Petra Fallacy: Early Mosques do face the Sacred Kaaba in Mecca
Dan Gibson, a Canadian amateur archaeologist, is the latest of a number of revisionist historians…
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Video: Why algorithms are called algorithms – BBC Ideas
Algorithms: From Al-Khwarizmi to Alan Turing and Beyond
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Geography Image Gallery
Browse through selected images taken from Muslim Heritage articles related to Geography...
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Islamic Coins
Islamic/Arabic Coins, the dirham, was said to be of such might that it was used…
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Plague and Contagion
Historians traditionally have divided the occurrence of the bubonic plague (Yersinia Pestis) into three pandemics…
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The Mystery of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
In early 12th-century Muslim Spain, a gifted philosopher, mathematician, poet, and medical doctor was born.…
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The Role of Mathematics and Geometry in Formation of Persian Architecture
Geometry is one of the main features in the formation of Persian architecture. Research in…
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Astronomy as a global science: The case of Islamic astronomy
This short article was written by Professor Rudiger Lohlker in response to our invitation to…
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Music Therapy and Mental Health
Mental Health Care and Bimaristans in the Medical History of Islamic Societies
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The Form and Function of the Prophet’s Mosque during the Time of the Prophet
In the wake of the hijrah (migration), the city-state of Madinah underwent significant changes in…
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Memory and Erasure in the Story of the West: Or, Where have All the Muslims Gone?
This a transcript of a lecture delivered on November 13, 2018 at the David M.…
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Shining light upon light
Two science histories dissect the transfer of knowledge between the Greco–Islamic and European civilizations, and…
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Travellers and Explorers from a Golden Age
Since the Quran said every able-bodied person should make a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca…
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Contributions of Scholars from the Muslim Civilisation to Pharmacology
This article has been produced from Chapter 5 "Contributions of Arab and Islamic Scholars to…
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The Emergence of Sophisticated Mosque Architecture in Early Islam
This paper discusses the evolution of the identity of Muslim architecture and the emergence of…
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Portable Cosmologies
15-16th Century Italian-Islamic Exchanges of the Astrolabe and Effects on Visual Culture
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New Results In The Research On Some Mathematical Works Of Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi
The article analyses the mathematical contents of four texts by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274), one…
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Hydraulic Imagery in Medieval Arabic Texts
The Arabic reports about irrigation, dams and water-powered machines form a cultural construction which could…
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Ibn al-Haytham and Psychophysics
The famous scientist Ibn al-Haytham (‘Alhazen') has rightly been credited with many advances in optics…
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Turkish Medical History of the Seljuk Era
The Great Seljuk state was part of the medieval Islamic civilization. Most of its scientific…
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An Overview of Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine
*** Produced from Chapter 1 of the Book “Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine: Traditional System,…
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Video: Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World
This documentary takes a thematic approach to carry audiences on an intimate journey to nine…
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Muslim Roots, U.S. Blues
To many the idea that American blues music has its origins with Muslims and even…
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Al-Andalus, a Bridge Between Arabic and European Science
The purpose of this paper is to outline the conditions in which Eastern Islamic science…
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Book Review: “Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine: Traditional System, Ethics, Safety, Efficacy and Regulatory Issues”
Traditional Arab-Islamic* herbal medicine plays an increasingly influential role in modern Western medicine. This extensive…
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An Untold Story: The Important Contributions of Muslim Scholars for the Understanding of Human Anatomy
It is usually assumed that Galen is one of the fathers of anatomy and that…
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The Principles of Animal Advocacy in Islam: Four Integrated Ecognitions
The Qurān—the scripture of the Muslims, which purports to be from the Creator of the…
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The Arab Roots of European Medicine
Wel knew he the olde Esculapius And Deyscorides and eek Rufus, Olde Ypocras, Haly and…
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The Islamic Roots of the Modern Hospital
"The hospital shall keep all patients, men and women, until they are completely recovered. All…
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Architecture Image Gallery
Browse through selected images taken from Muslim Heritage articles related to Architecture...
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Documenteries on Muslim Civilisation
We need a visual presentation to understand things better as the saying goes "A picture…
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The Classification of Mental Diseases in the Ottoman Medical Manuscripts
The Ottomans provided great contributions towards the fields of psychiatry and neurology. Their thoughts and…
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The Islamic Roots of Modern Pharmacy
Along the road from sympathetic magic and shamanism to scientific method, much trailblazing was carried…
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Islamic Glass Image Gallery
From Ibn Al-Haytam’s optical lenses to a mosque lamp of Amir Qawsun, Muslim Civilisation played…
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