Muslim Heritage

#OpenAccess #CentralAsia #IntellectualHistory #Khurasan #Samanid #Mongol #SilkRoads Lost Enlightenment Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane S. Frederick Starr Princeton Univ Press 2013 Direct Access PDF⬇️ mo.tnu.tj/wp-content/upl… ⬇️ mo.tnu.tj/ru/vspomogaeln…

New article alert! Lamia Balafrej delves into the politics of technology in medieval Islam. It’s easy to see automata of enslaved women as objectification, but how much of that is modern projection? Reading Sufi tales alongside images of automata opens up new avenues of inquiry

Another view of a #Tatar #Belarusian or #Polish #Islamic #manuscript , a collection of #dua in #Arabic, #Turkish and a #Slavic #language.

This Wednesday, 18 October, 18:15 CET, next Gotha Manuscript Talk: Prof. Zeynep Yürekli (University of Oxford) speaks about "Manuscripts Attributed to Matrakçı and the Dresden Drafts". 1/2 @CSMC_Hamburg @unierfurt

Started today my tour of London Islamic auctions with Mayfair Auction House! We unrolled a very rare Talismanic scroll, probably from the Mamluk period, 5 meters long!

Digitized manuscripts from the Great Omari Mosque in #Gaza — one of the most important and oldest national library and archives centres in #Palestine 211 manuscripts 25957 images [open access] eap.bl.uk/project/EAP128…

#OpenAccess #ByzantineStudies #ByzantiumandIslam #Ottoman #Balkans #Seljuk Byzantium: Its Internal History And Relations with The Muslim World: Collected Studies by: Speros Vryonis Jr. Variorum reprints 1971 Direct Access PDF ⬇️ macedonia.kroraina.com/en/svp/vryonis… ⬇️ macedonia.kroraina.com/en/svp/index.h…

Exciting news! The new captivating game Assassin's Creed Mirage features art from The Khalili Collections! Discover the intriguing Planispheric Astrolabe. #Monday #KhaliliCollections #IslamicArt #GamingGems 🎮 @Ubisoft @assassinscreed

Front cover of the catalogue of the exhibition "#Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations: Gaza à la croisée des civilisations - Contexte archéologique et historique, edited by M.-A. Haldimann et al. (Neuchâtel: Chaman Edition, 2007). #Palestine muslimheritage.com/gaza-crossroad…

#1001Nights #ArabicLiterature #DutchLiterature #18th_century #Translations "The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800" Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines by: Richard van Leeuwen, Arnoud Vrolijk PUB: Amsterdam Univ Press 2019

#OpenAccess #Waqf #Endowment #MuslimShrine #Balkh #AlidShrine #Afghanistan #Trans_Oxiana #Bukhara Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 R. D. McChesney Princeton Univ Press 1991 Direct Access PDF⬇️ archive.org/download/dli.p…

#IslamicScience #Sufism #Cosmology #Mathematics #Astronomy #IslamicMedicine #IslamicAlchemy #Philosophy #Mulla_Sadra "Science and Civilization in Islam" by: Seyyed Hossein Nasr ABC International 2001 Direct Access PDF ⬇️ archive.org/download/Seyye…

We are delighted @ace_southeast are supporting @MKLibraries @1001inventions @MKIAC to deliver Creative Journeys from Alchemy to Chemistry #cityofcodesandlight. Many free workshops - 4th - 7th Oct at Central Library. Booking ow.ly/xVwl50PM4ju @mkcouncil @OffsetProjects

🚀 Exciting news for #MiltonKeynes families! Join us for #1001inventions at #MiltonKeynesCentralLibrary during #CityOfCodesAndLightFestival, Oct 4-7, 2023. Book now: …01inventions-MKLibrary.eventbrite.com 🎟️ Calling #homeschooling groups! Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Limited slots!

Islamic Scholars and the development of Physics and Mathematics ▲ Mathematics and physics were greatly developed by ancient Islamic scholars and scientists during the Golden Age of Islam, which spanned from the 8th to the 13th century. Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850): He is considered the father of algebra, a term derived from his book al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa’l-muqabala (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing). He also introduced the Arabic numerals and the decimal system to the Western world, and wrote influential works on astronomy, geography, and trigonometry. Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965-1040): He is regarded as the father of modern optics, as he made significant contributions to the theory and practice of optics, vision, and light. He wrote the Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), which was a landmark in the history of physics and psychology. He also studied the laws of reflection and refraction, the nature of colors, the structure of the eye, and the mechanism of vision. He also proposed the scientific method of experimentation and observation, and criticized Aristotle’s physics. Omar Khayyam (c. 1048-1131): He was a renowned poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He is best known for his Rubaiyat, a collection of quatrains that express his views on life, love, and fate. He also contributed to algebra, geometry, number theory, and binomial theorem. He also calculated the length of the solar year with remarkable accuracy, and devised a calendar reform that was more accurate than the Gregorian calendar. Al-Biruni (c. 973-1048): He was a polymath who excelled in various fields of science, such as astronomy, mathematics, physics, geodesy, geography, geology, mineralogy, chemistry, pharmacology, anthropology, history, and linguistics. He wrote over 146 books on various topics, and is considered one of the greatest scholars of all time. He measured the radius and circumference of the Earth using trigonometry, determined the specific gravity of various substances using hydrostatics, described the heliocentric model of the solar system, and studied the motion of planets and comets. Al-Farabi (c. 872-950): He was a philosopher, logician, musician, and scientist who wrote influential works on metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, cosmology, psychology, music theory, and logic. He synthesized the ideas of Plato and Aristotle with Islamic theology, and developed his own system of classification of sciences. He also studied sound waves and musical harmony, and invented several musical instruments. These contributions from ancient Islamic scholars laid the groundwork for the advancement of physics and mathematics in the subsequent centuries. Their works were translated and disseminated in Europe during the Middle Ages, playing a crucial role in the Renaissance and the development of modern science and mathematics.

Some marginal notes in a manuscript copy of an Ottoman Turkish commentary on the al-Shamāʾil al-nabawīyah of al-Tirmidhī, written to form fun little shapes scattered throughout the manuscript, an 1810 copy of a mid-18th c. work by one Aşik Paşa (Princeton Garrett no. 1347Y):

#OpenAccess auf #MENAdoc: „Islamic literature and intellectual life in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Anatolia“ edited by A. C. S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz (Würzburg, 2016) Istanbuler Texte und Studien; Band 34 dx.doi.org/10.25673/110637

An entire 18th-century Ottoman Damascene room has just come on the market, after 70+ years (?!) in a private UK home. Would love to see it in a public institution in Syria.... christies.com/lot/lot-644569…

Exciting paid opportunity for students/science communicators in the Milton Keynes area. The STEM 1001 Journeys from Alchemy to Chemistry event takes place at Milton Keynes Central Library 4-7 OCT. @1001inventions Contact: education@1001inventions.com

Guess the stories! If you pay attention to the softness of the colors and the excessive softness of the calligraphy, you can reach the state and mood of the calligrapher! spring colors, flowers, letters that are written with soft hand and...