Mauro Zonta The study of botany as an independent science was not very widespread in the medieval Islamic world. Most of the botanical treatises written in Arabic during the Middle Ages were lists of names and descriptio...
Iraj Afshar Article contents:The title of the workThe authorThe period which the author flourishedThe dedicateeThe manuscripts in order of their importanceThe contentsThe novelty of Javāher Nāme-ye NeẓāmiPlagiarised Javā...
Syed Numanul Haq It is well known among historians that scattered, all over the world, in numerous manuscript collections, is a very large body of tantalising medieval Arabic writings attributed to an enigmatic figure – ...
Ihsan Abbas Initially, not fully familiar with al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār, I considered it as a geographical gazetteer from which the French orientalist E. Lévi-Provençal had extracted the names of places in Muslim Spain. Lévi-Pr...
Ayman Fuad Sayyid Article contents:Books of mathematical geographyThe geographical dictionaryGeography books about the Maghrib and AndalusiaUrban descriptions and local topographyBooks of travel accountsThe geographical ...
Jan Just Witkam I wish to thank Dr Arnoud Vrolijk for his help and support during the final stages of the composition of this chapter. When on Sunday 25th August 1889 two Egyptian gentlemen, ʿAbdallāh Fikrī Pasha and Muḥ...
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Article contents:The Hellenistic-Islamic legacyʿAjāʾib al-Mukhlūqāt (The Marvels of Creation)Early modern literatureModern literatureAmbassadors’ reports (sefāretnāmes) and travelogues (seyahatnāmes)...
Ibrahim Chabbouh In our Arab Islamic culture, classical geographical writings are an important basis for cultural and anthropological studies. They often serve as the starting point to reconstruct a view of old societies...
Abdallah Yusuf al-Ghunaim Article contents:Evaluating of the geographical heritage in the research and publication completed in the nineteenth centuryRevisions of research work published over the last two decadesThe invo...
Roshdi Rashed Bibliographers have often organised their books and catalogues along lines inspired by traditional teachings: so after the Qurʾānic sciences come the Prophetic Ḥadīth, followed by the sciences of language, ...