Review Of ' The Kitab Al Fihrist '

Yusuf, the first traveler, attended school in Venice, Italy, at the University of Padua, where he obtained his degree in medicine. The school is known for their teaching of medicine and Astrology, so their mascot dresses as the Cosmos. Yusuf believes that his school choice, as well as his own culture, stands higher than the other four travelers, because the Arabic people base their studies from medicine, philosophy, and science. He believes that without his ancestors, the European medical history would have little to it. Yusuf knows that without people like him that achieve degrees in medicine, many other cultures would begin to die out due to low life expectancy, epidemics without a cure, and disease that newborns cannot live through.

There will always be philosophical interpretations that will create universal truths for many generations to come. In addition, these literary works enriches the audiences’ understanding of these texts as supremely important cultural and historical documents, for audiences who embrace their universal truths. Both generational audiences’ spiritual interpretations seemed to have, collectively, developed a text of extraordinary literary works that are overflowing with philosophical and truth-seeking richness.

The medieval philosophers originated from the middle east, yet most adopted Jewish beliefs. Constitutors such as al farabi, ibn tufayl, and moss Maimonides produced some of the most profound pieces in Arabic political history. During this time, the Islamic region strongly dismissed the notions of Aristotle and Plato and focused solely on their religious teaching. But the Arabic philosophers saw a connection between the two. yet, they found it necessary to incorporate the idea of reason into their teachings. This caused conflict within their society because the citizens believed that there was no need for reason, rather the only need was God and his teachings. Further, they believed that the teachings of reason did not link to their religious values. Al Farabi infused his work with the work of Aristotle and Plato such as; the survival of the soul and the punishment of the afterlife. Ibn Tufayl philosophy pertaining to religion explains the harmony of joining reason and philosophical thought with

Qutb’s teachings and commentary of Islamic teachings are seen to hold considerable authority and significance to adherents of Islam. His main and most revered teachings included: the belief in Tawhid (the oneness of God), the concept of Jahiliyya (pagan ignorance), jihad (struggle) and the need to revive Islam.

I hope that through the lens of their introspective commentary on how cosmologies are psychological constructs, I can achieve some sort of explanation to how we understand the cosmos via linguistic representation.

Due to the constant struggle for power between the Church and the Moors, Rabbi Yehuda, seeking some peace and quiet, set out for Andalusia (a province in Spain that the Christians had not yet conquered).1 There he continued to write poetry, which in his day, was considered one of the highest of all written art forms. Jewish and Muslim poets alike sought to achieve complete perfection in their writing, and those who were successful, were greatly revered by their contemporaries.2 Yehuda’s talents were so outstanding that although very young, he still attracted much attention from the other great scholars and poets of his era.1

Mevlana Jalal al- Din Rumi is one of the most influential Islamic mystics of all times. It is no surprise that even seven hundred years after his death; he remains to be the best selling poet in North America. His poetry reflects the teachings of Islam and his opinions on various matters such as faith, prayer, love, free will etc. are assembled in a book called “The signs of the Unseen”. Occasionally, commentators dissociate Rumi poetry’s from Islam but the fact is that Rumi’s entire writings are inspired from the Quran and sayings of Prophet (PBUH) and represent the essence of Islam.

We believe that Farah is disgusted by IEDs because she has had first hand experience with emotional and physical pain that they can cause. “Just absence. It was such a jolt. I felt as though an earthquake had given the entire building a shake”(Pg.59). This shows how much emotional pain she went through at the moment of finding out that she will no longer have her legs for the rest of her life.

took pilgrimages to Mecca. His family claimed to be descended from both an early Mongol

The book that we have chosen to review is titled “Lost History, the Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists”. The author of the book is Michael Hamilton Morgan. The book was published in the year 2007 and also holds the same copyright date. The book is a non-fiction. The main subject matter of the book is the history of the Islamic civilization from the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

Since 1959 the Jafari school of jurisprudence has been afforded the status of “ the fifth school” along with the four Sunni schools of Azhar University in Cairo. The other two legal schools that share the Jafari origin are the Zaydi and the Mustali Fatimid

Muhammad Al Khwarizmi was recognised as the greatest Muslim mathematician. Since the 9th century he was renowned for his strong advocacy for the numerical system and his fundamental algebraic methods.

Al-Kindi, also known as the Philosopher of the Arabs, was born at Al Kufa (in modern Iraq) in the early years of the 9th century. Most of his life he lived in that region, at Basra, and, eventually, at Baghdad until he died in 873. He was a scholar who worked in Baghdad's House of Wisdom. He was interested in many subjects, including chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, music, philosophy and even psychology. And he has left us many great books in which he wrote down all he

To better appreciate the Islamic civilization’s contribution to knowledge and to understand the issues that hinder us from developing our academic sources, this essay will discuss the rise and fall of one of the world’s greatest libraries, Bait Al Hikmah, more commonly known as, The House of Wisdom.

In the short story The Library of the Babel written by Jorge Luis Borges, suggests how written language and orthographic conventions limit our understanding of the universe. While knowledge from language helps decipher what is what is known; could it also expose us to what is unknown in the universe? Within The Library of the Babel the ideas of the awareness of the questions that emerge with intelligence of certain topics and the lack of knowledge in regards to understanding the vastness of the universe. Along with the simplistic conventions of language, these topics are prevalent in interpreting how limiting our cultural symbolic system is in determining answers to complex concepts of the universe. The humans historical relation to the world