Imtiaz A. Chaudhry1, Yonca O. Arat2 and Waleed Al-Rashed3 1Senior Academic Consultant, Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon Oculoplastic and Orbit Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin 3Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist, Division of Anterior Segment King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospit...

tuhaf al-uqūl is the name of a hadīth collection, the author of which is abu muhammad ḥasan ibn alī ibn ḥussein ibn shu‘bat al-ḥarrānī. he is one of the hadīth narrators of the fourth century (a.h), and according to some sayings, he was one of sheikh mufīd’s preceptors. one of the features of tuhaf al-uqūl is its containing some single hadīths, which have no equivalent in other hadīth collectio...

according adhar bigdili, muhammad ali was son of abdal biq naqqashbashi (painter laureate)and grandson of aliquli biq jabadar, court painter of shah safi and shah abbas ii safawi. adhar bigdili credited muhammad ali with naqqashbashi of shah tahmasp ii safawi and nadir shah afshar. having learnt the art of painting from his father, muhamma ali in turn trained ali ashraf, who worked under patron...

The puzzle of a mysterious death in the Middle Ages has been hypothesized in terms of contemporary forensic legal and scientific methods. That al-Hasan ibn-'Ali died in 669 aged just 45 has been forensically analyzed based on written sources that dictate eyewitness accounts of historical events. The report of the contemporaneous poisoning of another individual who resided under the same househo...

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

1 Sup'Com-MEDIATRON, City of Communication Technologies, 2083 Ariana, Tunisia 2 LORIA and INPL, Campus Scientifique, BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France 3 IPP-HURRAY! Research Group, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Rua António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal 4 Al-Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University, Computer Science Dept.,11681 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Email: jamilabs07@yah...