AUTHOR'S ARTICLES
Fine Dining
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 14th January 2022
Medieval people from Muslim Civilisation, like many others, ate according to seasonal influences. Typical winter meals used vegetables such as sea kale, beets, cauliflower, turnips, parsnips, carrots, celery, peas, broad beans, lentils, chickpeas, olives, hard…
On the Coffee Trail
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 14th December 2021
Coffee is a global industry and the second-largest commodity-based product; only oil beats it. More than 1,200 years ago, as the story goes, a herd of goats and their watchful master, a shepherd, discovered this…
1001 Inventions – Home
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 1st November 2021
The Home chapter includes some of the thousand-year-old inventions that still shape daily life. In addition to the three-course meal and using appropriate utensils for eating, other new ideas from Muslim civilization included new fashions,…
The Story Begins – The Golden Age
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 12th September 2021
This article is extracted from CHAPTER ONE of 1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization. This book shows, the knowledge of the scholars of Muslim civilization was far from lost. Thousands of precious documents…
Hospital Development In Muslim Civilisation
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 26th October 2020
The idea behind hospitals in the Muslim world a thousand years ago was to provide a range of facilities from treatments to convalescence, asylum, and retirement homes. They looked after all kinds of people, rich…
The Mystery of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 19th August 2020
In early 12th-century Muslim Spain, a gifted philosopher, mathematician, poet, and medical doctor was born. Ibn Tufayl, or Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi, to give his full name,…
Travellers and Explorers from a Golden Age
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 1st August 2020
Since the Quran said every able-bodied person should make a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca at least once in their lifetime, thousands travelled from the farthest reaches of the Islamic empire to Mecca, beginning in…
Keep your distance – health lessons from the history of pandemics
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 8th April 2020
From a simple cold to a serious illness, humans have always lived with the risk of catching diseases from one another. Pandemics affecting millions are fortunately rare, but the bubonic plague of the 14th century…
The Birth of Modern Astronomy
by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 18th January 2020
Some people, unaware of what was accomplished during Muslim civilisation, believe that astronomy died with the Greeks, and was brought to life again by Nicolas Copernicus, the 15th-century Polish astronomer who is famous for introducing…