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Editorial note: This article needs to be read in conjunction with the ...

Manuscript Review: The Book of Musical Modes, by Al-Urmawi

[Al-Urmawi] was the greatest of music theorists. He was the pioneer of...

The Unpublished Works of Arabic Geography: An Overview and a Classification

Islamic geographical texts are not only valuable in terms of geographi...

Manuscript Review: Instruction of the Learner; The Method of Learning, by Al-Zarnuji

Zarnuji’s work represents a landmark in the history of Pedagogy in t...

Ibn Sina’s The Canon of Medicine

The Sheikh al-Ra'is Sharaf al-Mulk Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn b. ‘Abd Alla...

The Suhayl 2014 Vol 13

The Suhayl 2014 Vol 13 - International Journal for the History of the ...

Manuscript Review: Farthest Perception in the Comprehension of Heavens, by Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

With all the weight of his knowledge, Qutub al-Din preferred to be a m...

Manuscript Review: The Detailed Treatise on Matters Concerning Learners and Guidelines for Teachers and Learners, by Al-Qabisi

Al-Qabisi was the inventor of the concept and practice of 'Co-operativ...

Book Release: Publication of the Complete Critical Edition of Al-Isfizārī’s Corpus of Mechanics

Last November 2013, the world has seen a new unique publication. The ...

Manuscript Review: Treatise on ‘The Alive Son of the Awake’, by Ibn Tufayl

Besides [Ibn Tufayl's] contributions in medicine, he is best known for...

Lecture on Timbuktu Manuscripts at Al-Furqan Foundation

Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation organizes on Wednesday 6th March...

British Prime Minister David Cameron in Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who arrived in Jeddah on Novembe...

Islamic Manuscripts in the Schoenberg Collection at Pennsylvania University

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection at the University of Pennsylvani...

Book Review: “Debt – The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber

Economics textbooks claim that money was invented to replace onerous a...

Manuscript Review: The Book on the Soul, by Ibn Bajjah

Besides philosophy and mathematics, Ibn Bajjah was well-versed in bota...

Jewels of Muslim Calligraphy: Book Review of “Female Calligraphers: Past & Present by Hilal Kazan”

This is a review of the book prepared by Hilal Kazan for the Istanbul ...

National Geographic Releases New 1001 Inventions Book

25th January 2012, Washington, DC – The latest edition of the best-s...

Book Review of “Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq’s Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook” by Nawal Nasrallah

Written nearly a thousand years ago, Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-cent...

‘Ali b. Sahl Rabban al-Tabari Author of Firdaws al-hikma (Paradise of Wisdom)

The physician, scientist and philosopher, ‘Ali b. Sahl Rabban al-Tab...

Book review of Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man by Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan

In Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man, Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan outl...

Manuscript Review: The Book of Observations and Admonitions, by Ibn Sina

[Ibn Sina] flourished as a great physician and philosopher, but was al...

Book Review of Dr. Toygar Akman’s “Cybernetics”

"Cybernetics: Past, Present, Future" published by Toygar Akman, a reno...

Book Review of ‘Islamic Gardens and Landscapes’ by D. Fairchild Ruggles

Ranging across poetry, court documents, agronomy manuals, and early ga...

Rebuttal by the FSTC to Edward Rothstein’s Article

Rebuttal by the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation to ...

New Book by Jim Al-Khalili – Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. I...

Book review: Ibn al-Haytham and the New Optics

This is a book review of Ibn El-Heysem ve Yeni Optik (Ibn al-Haytham a...

Manuscripts and printing in the spread of Muslim science

[Proceedings of the conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our...

Charles Burnett Publishes a New Book on the Arabic-Latin Transmission

The book Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and the...

1001 Inventions Book Continues its Way in the Media: Two Recent Reviews

In the following, we republish two recent and very elogious reviews of...