The advent of evolutionary medicine in the last two decades has provided new insights into the causes of human disease and possible preventative strategies. One of the strengths of evolutionary medicine is that it follows a multi-disciplinary approach. Such an approach is vital to future biomedicine as it enables for the infiltration of new ideas. Although evolutionary medicine uses Darwinian e...

alopecia areata is a dermatologic disorder which presents itself with sudden and patchy hair loss. the aim of this study is to assess the issues related to the similar condition in ancient manuscripts of traditional persian medicine. this is a descriptive review study in which a number of well-known traditional persian manuscripts such as; kamil al-sina’a al-tibbiyyaby al-majusi, ‘ali ibn al-’a...

highlights the extent to which the Greek medical tradition has been assimilated, even at the level of popular and religious medical writing. Unfortunately, Al-Akili's translation is wildly exegetical; in some passages more than half of the content of the translation is not to be found in the Arabic. On contagion, for example, one tradition simply states the following: "In the delegation of [the...

In the subcontinent, Companions, followers, followers of and narrators came at different times continued to perform duties spreading Islam here. The books Asma 'ul-Rijal turning pages history show that according a conservative estimate, about five Companions visited India, including' Uthman ibn Abi al-'As Saqafi his brothers, 'Abdullah ibn' Umayr, Sahl 'Adi Malik, Syedna Asim bin Amr Majasha Th...

apart expressing the cause of the reflection of light from the surface of polished objects, ibn al-haytham in his al-manāẓir claims that the acceptance or rejection of light by these objects is only due to their polished surfaces and have nothing to do with their solidity, because the reflection of light from the surface of soft polished objects such as water is also possible. kamāl al-dīn al-f...