after introducing three famous grammarians –ibn-e-malek, ibn-e- aqil and al-soyuti– the authors of this article try to compare and contrast the tow well-known explications of ibn–malek`s alfiyya, by ibn-e-aqil and al-soyuti. the authors refer to the similarities and differences between the two explications and give examples from both works. the main purpose of this article is introduce th...

al-aqad was a contemporary prominent critic and writer of egypt who by authoring the book about ibn al rumi life and his poems‚ tried to present thoughtful view points, about this great poet. he believed that ibn al-rumi was a great poet of abbasi era and was a poet laureate of his contemporary poets but unlike his literary position‚ he was not supported by the kings. it is worth noting that be...

the menhaj al-bolagha and seraj al-odaba by hazem qartajeni is one of the most effective books on rhetoric and theory of arabic poetry. although he was grown up in an environment influenced by ibn rushd and is considered his indirect student, in this book (with a rhetoric and philosophical style) he is under the influence of ibn sina in founding and presenting the theory of arabic poetry. witho...

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...

A close look at the writings of the Middle Eastern and North African scholars who lived in the Middle Ages (roughly between A.D. 476-1500) reveals an immense body of theoretical knowledge pertaining to the humanities, and behavioral and social sciences. A partial list of the scholars who wrote on these issues includes names such as Abu Yusuf (8th century), Abul-Fadl Al-Dimishgi (9th century), A...

During the 1020s Ibn Sı̄nā wrote a commentary in Arabic on the logical works of Aristotle, as part of his encyclopedia Al-Šifā’ (The Cure). The commentary runs to some 2180 pages in the recent Cairo edition; this figure includes his commentary Madk ̄ al on Porphyry’s Eisagōgē, which he counted as an introduction to Aristotle’s work. Apart from the Madk ̄ al which was translated into Latin in the 1...

analysis and the explanation of the document of nawader al-hekmah rejalprincipleabstractone of the traditional methods of assessment of narrations and recognition of narrators has been to correctnarrations in analogy in the primary grounds and then makesome of them exception. today, many following ibn al-walid (b. 343 ah. ) –who excludedthe narrations of a group of narratorsofnawader al-hekmaho...

Even for the knowledgeable, the tasks get vitiated by the blemishes of fate or the gods, or the human nature. It is not impossible to divine what is meant here, but how much more idiomatically it could have been done: Things go wrong, even for the wise, because of the iniquities of fate and of men. The bibliographical control of source works is almost non-existent, although this is not always a...