The case of an ‘Ottoman’ watermarked paper used in Yemen and in Ethiopia1 Anne RegourdAustrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna CNRS, UMR 7192) Article contents:IntroductionOverview of paper...
A. B. Zahlan Paper presented at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies Conference on ʻIslam and Science,ʼ in Amman, 27-29 August 2001. Article contents:IntroductionThe Status of TechnologyResearch outputThe Institut...
Irfan Shahid The felicitous Qurʿānic phrase ʻahl al-kitābʼ, the ʻPeople of the Bookʼ, is applied in the Qurʿān to the Jews and Christians, but it is in fact even more applicable to the Muslims privileged place of the Qur...
Ibrahim Ben Murad Article contents:IntroductionThe interpretation of Plant NamesThe verification of plant namesThe verification of plant names in the written contextVerification of the essential nature of a plantConclusi...
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...