An important allegory throughout the history of philosophy is Plato’s allegory of the cave. There are remarkable similarities between this allegory and an allegory from Islamic philosophy—that of western exile (al-ghurba al-gharbiyya) proposed by Suhrawardī. This paper seeks to consider fundamental components and issues within the two allegories, including the issue of the soul as the ...

In this talk I introduce three of the twentieth century’s main philosophies of mathematics and argue that of those three, one describes mathematical reality, the “reality”of the other two being merely virtual. What are mathematical objects, really? What, for example, is that thing that we call “the number one”, or “the set of all positive whole numbers”, or “the shortest path between two points...

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intellect is a fundamental topic of concern in the peripatetic philosophy. a comparison of al-farabi’s approach to ‘intellect’ (an iranian muslim philosopher with an oriental background) with that of alexander of aphrodisias’ (a greek philosopher with an occidental background) may reveal the contrasting features of aristotelian peripatetic philosophy and the islamic philosophy. basing itself on...

ibn sina considers the first being in the world to be the first intellect, which issues from the necessary being on the basis of the principle, ‘only one issues from that which is one in all respects’, and through the different aspects of which all other beings come into existence. ibn arabi rejects the basis of ibn sina’s theory of the first emanation, which is the above mentioned principle, a...

the relation between an authorized contract and transfer of another’s property is one of the subtle and, at the same time, important issues of civil law as well as criminal law, which has doubly increased the legislator’s silence, numerous contradictions in legal texts, bewilderment of intellects, and confusion in comprehension. there are various probabilities apt to come up concerning the rela...

O X F O R D Malnutrition is largely a silent and invisible emergency, exacting a terrible toll on children and their families. The result of multiple causes, including a lack of food, common and preventable infections, inadequate care and unsafe water, it plays a role in more than half of the nearly 12 million deaths each year of children under five in developing countries, a proportion unmatch...

BACKGROUND Studies that compare Indigenous Australian and non-Indigenous patients who experience a cardiac event or chest pain are inconclusive about the reasons for the differences in-hospital and survival rates. The advances in diagnostic accuracy, medication and specialised workforce has contributed to a lower case fatality and lengthen survival rates however this is not evident in the Indig...

This thinker observed that all the books no matter how diverse they might be, are made up out of the same elements: the space, the period, the comma, the twenty-two letters of the alphabet. He also alleged the fact which travellers have confirmed: In the vast Library there are no two identical books. From these two incontrovertible premises he deducted that the Library is total and that its she...