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Four Medieval Hospitals in Syria
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The creation of hospitals as institutions for the care of sick people was developed during the early Islamic...


Book Review of “Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook” by Nawal Nasrallah
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Written nearly a thousand years ago, Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century cookbook is the most comprehensive...


The Sound Rules in Reading the Quran (Tajwid) in Qutb Al-Din al-Shirazi’s Music Notation
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In the Islamic world, starting from Al-Kindī (d. 874), Al-Fārābī (d. 950), Ibn Sīnā (d. 1034), and Safī al-...


Kerala Mathematics and Its Possible Transmission to Europe
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The Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics was an Indian school of mathematics and astronomy founded by...


Kalila wa-Dimna
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One of the most popular books ever written is the book the Arabs know as Kalila wa-Dimna, a bestseller for...


The Coffee Route from Yemen to London 10th-17th Centuries
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The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the 9th century. From Eastern Africa, coffee spread to...