Riwayah Writings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.