University of Sharjah
The volume “The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity: Crosspollinations in Art, Architecture, and Material Culture” reveals that art objects – both Muslim and Christian – played a pivotal role in fostering peace and coexistence…
This article examines the hammam, or traditional Islamic bathhouse, as both a spiritual and communal institution in Muslim societies. Building on Greco-Roman thermae, the hammam evolved into a space rooted in Islamic principles of purification,…
In the centuries since the first coffeehouse was opened in Istanbul (then Constantinople) in 1554, Turkish coffee has brought together people of different classes, cultures, and ranks and helped shape politics and lifestyles, Ali Çaksu,…
Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research reveals that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, closely resembles one designed by an Arab astronomer…
Muslim scientists developed their own perceptions, meanings, and worldviews of knowledge that differ drastically from those prevalent in the West.
This article reviews the two lost works by the Greek mathematician Apollonius (262 BC–190 BC), which have been preserved in an Arabic manuscript housed at the Leiden University Libraries in the Netherlands. The findings are…
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