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Hospital Development In Muslim Civilisation
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New Results In The Research On Some Mathematical Works Of Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi
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An Untold Story: The Important Contributions of Muslim Scholars for the Understanding of Human Anatomy
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The Arab Roots of European Medicine
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The Islamic Roots of the Modern Hospital
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Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics
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1001 Cures – Introduction
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1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation
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Arabic Medicinal Manuscripts of Pre-Colonial Northern Nigeria: A Descriptive List
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Ingenious Clocks from Muslim Civilisation that Defied the Middle Ages
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Manuscript Review: Instruction of the Learner; The Method of Learning, by Al-Zarnuji
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Professor Devin Stewart: The Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Islamic World
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Manuscript Review: Farthest Perception in the Comprehension of Heavens, by Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
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Medicine and Health in Medieval Arabic Poetry: An Historical Review
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Manuscript Review: The Detailed Treatise on Matters Concerning Learners and Guidelines for Teachers and Learners, by Al-Qabisi
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The Mechanical Water Clock Of Ibn Al-Haytham
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Manuscript Review: Treatise on ‘The Alive Son of the Awake’, by Ibn Tufayl
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Introducing Medical Humanities in the Medical Curriculum in Saudi Arabia: A Pedagogical Experiment
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Professor Rabie E. Abdel-Halim’s Lectures
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Ibn Zuhr and the Progress of Surgery
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Professor Qasim Al-Samarrai Lecture on the The Edition of Arabic Manuscripts
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Experimental Medicine 1000 Years Ago
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Reason and Rationality in the Quran
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A New Arabic Text of Mechanics: Sinan ibn Thabit on the Theory of Simple Machines
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A Medical Classic: Al-Razi’s Treatise on Smallpox and Measles
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Significant Ottoman Mathematicians and their Works
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Ali Al-Qushji and His Contributions to Mathematics and Astronomy
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The Institution of Waqf as a Solution to the Economic Crisis
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Trevor Hilder: A Story About Sustainable History
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From Frankfurt and Cairo to Damascus: Recent Models of the Umayyad Mosque Clock
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The European Muslim Heritage and its Role in the Development of Europe
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The Transfer of Science Between India, Europe and China via Muslim Heritage
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Medicine in the Middle Ages: New Insights and a Call for Further Research
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Ibn Khaldun’s Thought in Microeconomics: Dynamics of Labor, Demand-supply and Prices
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The Economic Theory of Ibn Khaldun and the Rise and Fall of Nations
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Muslim Contributions to Modern Civilisation
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One Thousand Years of Missing History
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New Discoveries in the Islamic Complex of Mathematics, Architecture and Art
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Filling the Gap in the History of Pre-Modern Industry: 1000 Years of Missing Islamic Industry
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Ibn Khaldun’s Concept of Education in the ‘Muqaddima’
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Pericardial Pathology 900 Years Ago: A Study and Translations from an Arabic Medical Textbook
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The Missing Link in the History of Urology
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The Volume of the Sphere in Arabic Mathematics: Historical and Analytical Survey
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Book Review of The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science by Arun Bala
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Medical Sciences in the Islamic Civilization
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The Ethical Theory of Education of Ahmad Miskawayh
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A Plea for the Recovery of the Forgotten History of Muslim Heritage
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The subject of food and diet was very essential in…
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Islam’s Forgotten Contributions to Medical Science
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Remembering the Language of History and Science: When the World Spoke Arabic
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A Bibliography of the Islamic and Chinese Scientific Relationships in Classical Times
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