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Excerpts from Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine in Arabic and Latin
In the first place we render thanks to Allah, for the very excellence of the order of His creation, and the abundance of His benefits. His blessings and the abundance of His mercies are upon all the prophets. In the next place, I may say that it is…
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East"
Stewart Gordon uses the narratives of nine travelers to tell the story of Asia’s diverse economy and cultures between 500 and 1500 CE. During those thousand years, the world’s largest continent was the hub of global cultural and economic…
Tags: Arabic, Asia, Buddhism, China, Christianity, commerce, culture, Hinduism, India, Indian Ocean, invention, Islam, merchants, philosophy, politics, Portugal, sciences, trade, travel narrative, war
The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
In 2004, the noted scholar of comparative religion F. E. Peters produced a new edition of his well-regarded Children of Abraham. When initially published three decades ago, the book was one of the first scholarly works to place Islam alongside…
Tags: Abrahamic, Christianity, culture, history, interfaith, Islam, Judaism, Middle East, mysticism, philosophy, religions, rituals, scripture, theology