in islamic mysticism by annihilation it is meant the removal of any determination, tendency of delimitation to non-delimitation and transformation of multiplicity into unity. the study of historical development of the concept of annihilation can be helpful in understanding and analyzing this fundamental doctrine of mysticism. in early mystical works extant in world of islam, hardly can one find...

yusuf ibn mohammad ibn yusuf heravi, commonly known as “hakim yosefi” and “molana ibn yusuf”, son of mohammad yosefi, was a 10th century ah physician. it seems he was a native from khaf, khorasan which studied in mā varā al-nahr and leaved in harat. since of he fear of sorkh kolahan, he moved to india with his father. his works are important from that he poetry to facilitate medicine subjects. ...

In 1396 (798/799), two hundred years before Vesalius, the Persian author Mans: ur ibn Muh:ammad ibn Ah:mad ibn Y usuf ibn Faq h Ily as composed a treatise on anatomy entitled Tas:r h: -i Mans: ur that summarized many of the observations of Galen. It was not the first such treatise to be composed in the Islamic world, but it was the first to be accompanied by drawings of the human body in anatom...

After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...

Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improving the likelihood and quality of a deal. While this intuition has been stated informally in much previous literature, there is no formal analysis of the types of deals that can be reached through IBN and how they differ from those reachable using (cl...