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...

Background: Pterygium is one of the eye diseases that have been a subject of interest since ancient times. The aim of this study was to trace back the methods of diagnosis and treatment of pterygium throughout the history of Islamic civilization and to learn about the drugs and the related surgical instruments used to treat it. Methods: We searched all availab...

Stemless shoulder arthroplasty with metaphyseal fixation of the humeral component is increasingly used in the treatment of primary or secondary osteoarthritis, achieving significant pain relief and improving both range of motion and patient satisfaction [1, 4, 6]. The majoradvantagesof the stemlesshumeral design are preservation of humeral bone stock, anatomical reconstruction regardless of hum...

BACKGROUND Pruritus is an unpleasant feeling that can cause the desire of scratching in a person and can be the symptoms of systemic, infectious, and neurological diseases. Pruritus is the most common clinical manifestation of skin diseases. Pruritus prevalence is 8-38% in the general population. Causes and treatments of pruritus have been described by traditional Persian medicine scientists. T...

Background Depression is one of the five most-common diseases globally, and is expected to be the second leading cause of disability by 2020 and its economic and social burden is a major problem worldwide. Objective The aim of this research was to elucidate the causes and symptoms of depression according to Persian Medicine (PM) and classic medicine. Methods In this study, works that were i...

BACKGROUND Cancer is the most important non-communicable disease and the chief cause of death in the world, which imposes a major burden on communities. It is expected that the number of new cancer cases will increase 70 percent worldwide in the next two decades. The exact cause of the disease is unclear in modern medicine. More than a third of all cancer cases are preventable and the other two...

Objectives: In this study, in order to review the semiology of traditional medicine and apply it to current medical terminology, traditional and classic medicine resources on the subject of convulsion were reviewed. The connotative meaning of the term “convulsion” in traditional medicine is “the twitch of a non-specific part of the body, prepared for an expansive movement in a consistent, rapid...

This article is result of library research with a normative legal approach. Legal materials and data were obtained from Islamic norms regarding inheritance khuntsa the texts Qur'an Hadith, as well opinions jurists. thesis discusses distribution based on opinion Imam Ali As-Shobuni Abu Hanifah. People who do not have clear gender status, male female, are called in law. One problems determining r...

In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...