This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world. Chinese herbal drugs have been described by medieval Muslim medical scholars such as Tabari (...

While some of these formulations are not particularly original, the efforts by several contributors to orient them within a broader social context are sometimes illuminating. The book's many explicit personal accounts provide valuable vignettes on a little-known aspect of the social scene in Islamic countries, and often in ways that the authors themselves seem not to have noticed. A "drag" dres...

In seeking to understand the root causes of the events of 9/11 many accounts have turned to Samuel P. Huntington’s provocative and controversial thesis of a ‘clash of civilizations’, arousing strong debate. Evidence from the 1995-2001 waves of the World Values Survey/European Values Survey (WVS/EVS) allows us, for the Ž rst time, to examine an extensive body of empirical evidence relating to th...

This study wants to analyze the common points and of difference between Western Islamic philosophy. is qualitative research using exploratory-analytical method. finds that philosophy has contributed each other. The point Philosophy lies in transmitting truth. Meanwhile, we can see three aspects. First source knowledge. comes from reason five senses, while not only but also authority (al-Quran a...

With the collapse of many organizations, many researchers are increasingly paying attention to such phenomenon. But ethical issues are not always clear cut; there are many grey areas that need to be threaded with care by organizations. To determine whether an action or decision is ethically carried out, ethical theories, developed mainly by Western scholars, are the current theoretical framewor...

Islamic building codes require mosques to face Mecca. The further Islam spreads, the more apt are believers to fall into a quandary. X faces Y only when the front of X is closer to Y than any other side of X. So the front of the mosque should be oriented along a shortest path to Mecca. Which way is that? Does the path to Mecca tunnel through the earth? Or does the path follow the surface of the...

Islam has given great importance to knowledge acquisition, preservation, application and dissemination. It regards as one of the uncountable favours Allah His greatest gift mankind. With knowledge, not only mankind can change environment or create a civilization, but they are also able distinguish reality from illusion, truth falsehood other alternatives. Despite value its indispensability, the...