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Introduction While several studies have investigated the contribution of Muslim women in various fields of the classical civilisation of Islam, such as in hadith transmission, jurisprudence (fiqh), literature, and education,…
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Summary New Spain was a viceroyalty of Spain between 1521 and 1821. In these three centuries, the practice and the teaching of medicine had a great influence from Arabian medicine, and in this way, the thinking of Avicenna and his…
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This article presents Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zaharawi, Arabic أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي, Latin Albucasis (936-1013 A.D.), one on the most outstanding Arabic physicians and the most remarkable Arabic surgeon. His work had a…
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Introduction In Ottoman Turkish tenzu (tensuh) means“very rare beautiful thing” or “a box containing a variety of fragrances.”Tenzu was also said to be the name of a place in Hıtay (Eastern Turkistan / Xinjiang)…
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Summary The Republic of Venice constantly supported the contagionist hypothesis playing the role of pioneer and model for the measures adopted to prevent the diffusion of epidemics, as testified by the establishment in its…
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On a pu qualifier Ibn Khaldoun d’esprit universel. Politique, historien, philosophe, homme de sciences, père de la sociologie, juriste, poète, l’homme pourrait mériter tous ces qualificatifs. Son œuvre majeure est le Kitab al Ibar (le…
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Introduction “Khamsa”(Hamsa) is an Arabic word that means "five", but also "the five fingers of the hand". Khamsa is also a popular symbol found throughout the Middle East and North Africa from antiquity to the present day. Early use of…
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Although the western Omeyyad caliphatehad brought ancient knowledge across to North Africa and Spain,yet in the 10th century the famous physician AzZahrawi (d.1013C.E.) was complaining "that medical science had regressed to the extent…
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