salm ibn amr khasir the first abbasid poet born in basra.he was a pupil and narrator of the poet bashar ibn burd. he acquired his nickname (the loser),when he sold a copy of the quran in exchange for a book of verse; other explanations are also given. when young,he moved to baghdad and became a panegyrist of the ‘abbasid caliphs,the barmakids, in especial fadl barmaki,and other leading persons....

the tradition attributed to the prophet that he said: «» (verily god created adam in his visage) is one of the bases of sufis ideology and ibn arab? (ab? 'abdill?h muhammad ibn 'al? ibn muhammad ibn `arab?), the founder of theoretical sufism (irfan nazari), often refers to it in his works. in his most famous work named: the al - fut?h?t al-makkiyyah, he attempts to show the correlatio...

english abstracts / 11 ibn anbari s principles and style in the book al-ensaf fi masael al-khelaf eisa motaghi zadeh * majid mohammadi ** abstract after combing arabic language with non arabic and expanding the issue of diction, linguists tried to preserve the quran language, consequently they decided to legislate some special rules for facilitating the teaching of arabic grammar. very soon, su...

ghāfiqī (6th/12th century) is an andalusian botanist whose al-jāmiʿ fī al-adwiya al-mufrada is one of the principal pillars of the science of botany in andalusia and one of the most important sources for knowing and reconstructing the past history of this science. this book ows much to earlier botanical works, especially al-nabāt of dīnawarī and al-qānūn of ibn sīnā. in this paper, first the mo...

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...