the present article studies the reality of “zohdyyat” by abul atahie. has abul atahie been a real pious? or has he chosen piety as a technic for poetry? is his piety islamic? or is it spiritual? or is he an infidel? the present article tries to study the doubts and accusations in this regard so that we will know the reality of his “zohdyyat”. for the sake of this reason we first study the eleme...

impact on Ibn Tufayl's forerunners, especially Avicenna, whom Ibn Tufayl quotes expressly. Salim Kemal's 'Justifications of poetic validity' gives a very condensed summary of his monograph The poetics ofAlfarabi and Avicenna (Leiden, 1991). But I doubt whether Ibn Tufayl's novel kind of thought experiment can be grasped in terms of Avicenna's poetology. The medieval Latin translators did not co...

Laboratoire de Biologie et Santé, Unité de recherche Associée au CNRST-URAC 34, Faculté des Sciences Ben M'Sik, Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Maroc, Laboratoire d'Immunologie Clinique, Inflammation et Allergie, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Maroc, Département de Pédiatrie 1, Hôpital d'Enfants de Rabat, CHU Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc, Département ...

This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...

This work is the latest product of Albert Dietrich's investigations into the transmission and expansion of the Materia medica of Dioscorides in the medieval Islamic world; here he publishes, with German translation and commentary, a text by the renowned Andalusian physician Ibn Juljul (d. c. 384/994) describing 62 items not mentioned by Dioscorides. Such works were important contributions to th...

The purpose of presenting review was to share the medicinal and surgical contribution of Greco-Arabic Muslim scientists in diagnosis, surgery and natural medicines for the management and treatment of urolithiasis. The contribution of Al-Antaki, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Baitar, Al-Bokhari, Al-Razi, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Zuhr was highlighted. The data compilation was preliminary and much more efforts ...

The authors regret that there is a mistake in the university name in one of the author’s affiliation. It is written over the article as ‘‘Al-ImamMuhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University’’. The correct one is as follows: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Al ImamMohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. BOX 90950, 11623 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The authors ...

This paper introduces a new way of representing bankruptcy rules. These representations are used to show that the minimal overlap rule is a composition of the Ibn Ezra rule and the constrained equal losses rule, a result originally obtained by [1]. The residual minimal overlap rule is analysed as an alternative extension of the Ibn Ezra rule, by using a composition with the constrained equal aw...

SOME time fince* you were pleafed to take notice of fome hints I have given about fmall dofes of mercury; but as I find enough has not yet been faid upon the fubjedt to engage the attention of the faculty, and as the next volume I intend t^ publilh fhortly on medical furgery will not admit what I have to fay about the venereal ulcer, I beg leave to offer to your confideration the outlines of a ...

N fome of the earliefh inftances I had occafion to fee of this epidemic in London, the patients dated their complaints from the latter end of June ; but the difeafe could hardly be faid to occur with much frequency before the fecond week of July; from which period, till about the fourth week cf that month, feemecL to be the fpace of time in which it was moft prevalent. In the beginning of Auguf...