#Avicenna

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/Following up on an interesting point raised by Jonathan AC Brown about Avicenna & wine-drinking, I'd like to offer a few cursory remarks. One: Avicenna drank wine. His penchant for

Jake Kildoo

KakeJildoo

One of my favorite debates in Islamic studies right now concerns the precise character of al-Ghazali's theological standings. The basic contours of the matter are simple: was he more Ash'ari

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

In 1227 Michael Scot, orginally from Melrose in the Borders, “the leading intellectual in Western Europe during the first third of 13thC” joined Frederick II’s court from Toledo, where he

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am really interested in takes likes these because I wonder why everyone always picks the middle ages. Like I think you just mean before germ theory, antibiotics, and effective

HIBA

hibatheeba

thread. Earlier, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late devotion nights. Later brought to Cairo by some students, the coffee buzz soon caught on. without Muslims? no Starbucks for you

Ashkan Etemadi

AshkanTweets

Unlike the current anti-Iranian Islamic Republic, the patriotic #Pahlavi Kings assigned importance and devoted great resources to our rich history & cultureIt was they who built the magnificent mausoleums of

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Pathological history quiz time!1/ In ancient Egypt, which of the following was commonly used as a medicine: B) Over 100 recipes have been recorded. According to Egyptologist Alison Roberts "Set's

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

For hundreds of years, Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies to use them as paint . . . and swallow them as medicine. How were they able to do this, and

The Sixth Mountain

cynical_biatch

Cartesian VisionA woodcut from Descartes 1644 'Principles of Philosophy' shows a theory of optics & the interaction with the Pineal Gland.Believing light rays impressed particles into the eyes, the programmed

Gregory Mansour

GregoryMansour

Hey all, time for another Urology tweetorial on Fournier gangrene (FG). We will briefly cover the history, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management. Special thanks in advance to my wonderful mentor @RamonVirasoro!

Rational π ☪️

m_afnaaan

Thread on Muslim Pioneers and Ancient Islamic Contributions to the Scientific World. First of all no thread is going to do any justice to the vast Muslim intellectual contributions

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

This is a thread of people from Kurdistan you should know. Including men & women of different ethnic/religious backgrounds. I'd like to start with Ibrahim Pasha Baban who found Kurdistan's

Daniel

DanielCJonas

Volume IV. The Age of FaithEncompassing the history of medieval civilization (Byzantine, Islamic, Judaic, and West European) from Constantinople to Dante (AD 325-1330). As usual, Durant delivers with incredible understanding,

Sajjad Rizvi

mullasadra

Slowly it seems that interest in Islamic thought - the rational disciplines including philosophy and logic - in India is growing, and the recent book by Shankar Nair is a

قرّم۔

ElPsyQ

A long thread on famous Muslim Mathematicians, Scientists, Philosophers, Chemists, Physicists, Biologists,etc.. & their contributions to the evolution of Mankind Al-Khwarizmi:Father of AlgorithmsFirst systematic solution of linear and q

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