Riwayah Writings

Riwayah art print of Saladin's army entering Jerusalem

How Saladin Took Jerusalem in 1187

The Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem, and the conduct that made Saladin a legend on both sides of the war.

How Saladin Took Jerusalem in 1187

The Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem, and the conduct that made Saladin a legend on both sides of the war.

Riwayah art print of al-Zahrawi's surgical school

Al-Zahrawi: The Father of Modern Surgery

The Cordoban surgeon whose illustrated instruments and methods shaped European surgery for five hundred years.

Al-Zahrawi: The Father of Modern Surgery

The Cordoban surgeon whose illustrated instruments and methods shaped European surgery for five hundred years.

Riwayah art print of Abbas ibn Firnas attempting flight

Abbas ibn Firnas: The First Flight, Centuries B...

The Andalusian polymath who built wings and flew over Cordoba more than a thousand years before powered flight.

Abbas ibn Firnas: The First Flight, Centuries B...

The Andalusian polymath who built wings and flew over Cordoba more than a thousand years before powered flight.

Riwayah art print of Ibn al-Haytham's light experiments

Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Invented the Scient...

How an 11th-century scholar in Cairo built a science of evidence six hundred years before Europe did.

Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Invented the Scient...

How an 11th-century scholar in Cairo built a science of evidence six hundred years before Europe did.

Riwayah art print of Ibn Sina writing the Canon of Medicine

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and The Canon of Medicine

The story of the polymath Europe called Avicenna, whose Canon of Medicine taught its universities for six centuries.

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and The Canon of Medicine

The story of the polymath Europe called Avicenna, whose Canon of Medicine taught its universities for six centuries.

Riwayah art print of al-Khwarizmi teaching algebra

Al-Khwarizmi and the Birth of Algebra

The Baghdad scholar who left behind two words still used every day: algebra and algorithm.

Al-Khwarizmi and the Birth of Algebra

The Baghdad scholar who left behind two words still used every day: algebra and algorithm.