The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...

'Abd al-Latīf al-Baghdādī's (d. 1231) work Book of the Two Pieces of Advice (Kitāb al Nasīhatayn) challenges the idea that Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century AD. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine. 'Abd al-Latīf advocated using the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day; he argued...

‘Abd al-Şamad al-Fālimbānī who was considered a prolific scholar and had made major contribution to the development of Islamic scholarship, it turns out that his ways explaining hadith has unique way have been overlooked by previous researchers. In fact, he not only recognized as an expert in Sufism studies, but also sufficient credibility be narrations. Therefore, this article reveals characte...

abd- al sami’ ibn-mohammad-ali- yazdi is one of the lettered, jurists & poets of 13th century (a.h) that has done valuable services to the arabic language and literature like so many other iranian. so far, there are only a few biographical books in which he has been mentioned or introduced. unfortunately he has been forgotten during the passage of time. most of his writings are in arabic and th...

â â  this study, which is done in the light of modern research, is a small step in exploring the great heritage of arabic rhetoric. it may be quite appropriate to explore rhetorical techniques in the work of 'abd al- qähä«r al-jurjänä«, particularly because he has been neglected in many pieces of research on rhetoric. this article is an attempt for describing 'abd al- qähä«r’s ap...

Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi was born in March 1162 in his grandfather’s house in a street called Darb al-Faludhaj in Baghdad. He died there on 9 November 1231, and was buried in the Wardiyah cemetery next to his father, Yusuf. Abd al-Latif travelled extensively and spent a large part of his life in Aleppo, Cairo and Damascus, all three of which were important intellectual centres in the medieval I...