Arab Enterprize In Ifriqiyah, Siqilliyah and Andalusia On the downfall of Qurtubah, a number of provincial cities (seats of petty kingdoms) like Seville, Toledo and Granada rose into power and became...
Arab Enterprize in Ifriqiyah, Siqilliyah and Andalusia Arab conquest of North Africa began after ‘Uqbah Ibni Nafi’ built Al-Qayrawan in 670 AD, at the site of old Carthage. Harun-ur-Rashid appointed I...
Mechanical Contrivances and Military Science The Arabs and their immediate Muslim successors to the mastery of the civilized world do not seem to have added very much to the engineering sciences they...
‘Belles-Lettres,’ Religious Literature and Philosophy In this brief sketch it is impossible to do more than just mention a few outstanding works on Arabic literature (sacred and secular). Abu-Al-Aswad...
Search for knowledge, desire for Haj and interest in trade and innate propensity to see the world and explore its marvels led the Arabs to contribute immensely to geographical science. They travelled...
When the Saljuqs began to dominate over the Abbasid Khalifah (on the downfall of Buwayids) a fresh impetus was given to the pursuit of astronomical studies. Jalal Uddin Malik Shah summoned at his new...
Partronage at the Eastern Provincial Courts When the power of the ‘Abbasid Khalifahs weakened in the provinces and distant governors began to wield more or less unrestricted authority, scientific inqu...
Modern research has established the fact that the human race built up its civilisation some six thousand years ago on the banks of the Shattal-Arab and the Nile; whence it spread gradually through var...
