Muslim Heritage in Mechanics and Technology: Outline of a Program for Future Research
The following text is the revised and expanded version of a lecture pr...
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1001 Cures – Introduction
Islamic civilisation developed a system of healthcare that, at its apo...
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Embedding Scientific Ideas as a Mode of Science Transmission
I used the discipline of astronomy as a template to record the transmi...
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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
When a sixteenth-century medical writer referred to Phoenicians, along...
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Hydraulic Imagery in Medieval Arabic Texts
The Arabic reports about irrigation, dams and water-powered machines f...
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The Science of Al-Biruni
Al-Biruni was so far ahead of his time that his most brilliant discove...
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Manuscript Review: The Book on Public Finance, by Abu `Ubayd Al-Harawi
Abu `Ubayd's work is much more comprehensive in the subject of public ...
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Arab Origins of Cryptology
This article is the summary of a presentation given by Dr. Al-Suwaiyel...
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1001 Cures Book launch at The Royal Society in London during the British Science Week
To celebrate the launch of 1001 Cures; Contributions in Medicine & Hea...
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From Baghdad to Barcelona: The Anxiety of Influence in the Transmission of the Greek and Arabic Sciences
Drawing on Harold Bloom’s model of poetic influence and supersession...
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1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation
1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civil...
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Islam’s Historical Contribution to Commerce and Finance
Under the reign of Eurocentrism, the Western mind imagines that even i...
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Astronomy in Medieval Jerusalem
Various medieval Arabic manuscripts preserved in libraries around the ...
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Arabic Medicinal Manuscripts of Pre-Colonial Northern Nigeria: A Descriptive List
West African Muslim scholars produced a number of Arabic works relatin...
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Dental Care in Islamic Medical Science: Muhammad al-Aqkirmani (d. 1760) and his Risalah fi hukm al-Siwak
Most of the oldest Muslim treatises on Siwak remain in a manuscript fo...
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Oxford Museum of the History of Science Online Al-Mizan Exhibition
The Oxford Museum of the History of Science launched an online Al-Miza...
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Islamic Astronomy from “Star Wars” to Star Tables
The most obvious difference between modern and Islamic astronomy is th...
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Ibn al-Nafis, the Pulmonary Circulation, and The Islamic Golden Age
Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288) was an Arab physician who made several import...
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