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Muslim History and Historians Part 1: For a Better Approach to Muslim History

This article on Muslim history and historians is in three parts, and also includes an extensive reading list to help readers explore the issues discussed here. This first part looks at the way Muslim...

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Rediscovering Arabic Science

The magazine Saudi Aramco World published in May-June 2007 an interesting folder on Arabic and Islamic science. The folder of 20 pages consists of several articles illustrated with a rich iconography...

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Ibn Wasil

Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Wasil was an historian and man of letters, born in Hamat in Syria on 2 Shawwal...

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Trevor Hilder: A Story About Sustainable History

After briefly describing his work background, Trevor Hilder tells the story of the young man who set out to...

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Medicine in the Middle Ages: New Insights and a Call for Further Research

[Proceedings of the conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World organised by FSTC, London, 25-26...

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Ottoman Cash Waqfs Revisited: The Case of Bursa (1555- 1823)

Cash endowments contributed to Ottoman society, without any cost to the State, by organizing and financing...

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History, Culture and Science in Morocco: 11th-14th Centuries

The history of the Islamic west offers glorious pages of contribution to world history in various fields....

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How Islamic Learning Transformed Western Civilization: Review of 'The House of Wisdom'

In February 2009, Jonathan Lyons published 'The House of Wisdom', a riveting history which reveals the vital...

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Figure 1. The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154, one of the most advanced ancient world maps. Modern consolidation, created from the 70 double-page spreads of the original atlas. (Source)