A famous signed sketch of Hypatia, included as an insert in Elbert Hubbard's pamphlet Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, vol. 23, no 4, 1908.
Women's Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and PoliticsLEARN MORE
While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and literature and there...
Dr Salim Ayduz presenting his lecture.
Muslim Contributions to Modern CivilisationLEARN MORE
Dr Salim Ayduz, researcher at FSTC, presented on Tuesday 9 February 2010 a conference on the Muslim...
Figure 1: HRH Prince Charles of Wales. (Source).
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Figure 1: Fig. 1: Illustration of Kuttab School in a mosque, from the 7th maqama of al-Hariri's Maqamat. This manuscript, copied and illustrated by al-Wasiti, was executed in Baghdad in 1237. MS. ar. 5847 f. 18v., Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Islamic science developed thanks to a good system of knowledge diffusion through education. (Source).
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The magazine Saudi Aramco World published in May-June 2007 an interesting folder on Arabic and Islamic...
Front cover of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons (Bloomsbury, 2009).
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In February 2009, Jonathan Lyons published 'The House of Wisdom', a riveting history which reveals the vital...
Samples of ancient Islamic ceramics in the Museum of Islamic Ceramics in Cairo. Four plates with drawings from Islamic Egypt: (a). Mamluk era, 11th century; (b). Fatimid era, 12th century; (c). Mamluk period, 11th century; (d). Fatimid times, 11th century. (Source).
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Most educational systems, particularly those of Western countries, teach that industry was born in Europe and...