AUTHOR'S ARTICLES
The Invention of Spectacles between the East and the West
by Lutfallah Gari Published on: 12th November 2008
The following article by the expert scholar Lutfallah Gari surveys the historical sources to uncover the ancient history of the invention of spectacles. To the question "where and when were they invented?", and after a…
Knowledge versus Natural Disasters from Arabic Sources
by Lutfallah Gari Published on: 26th May 2008
The aim of this paper is to investigate the various aspects of preparedness and response to natural disasters in the Arabic speaking lands during the 15th and 16th centuries, with comparison to earlier writings. Two…