Al-Razi Essays

  • Al Razi Research Paper

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    Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi was born on August 26, 865 AD in Ray, Iran and died on October 15, 925 AD in Ray, Iran. It is said that Razi was initially interested in music but soon became attached to medicine, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and philosophy. While he was studying under his mentor Ali Ibn Rabban he became well versed in ancient Greek, Persian, and Indian systems of medicine and many other subjects. As he grew older he chose medicine as his professional field. He was an early advocate

  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

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    Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi Al-Razi was one of the greatest eastern scholars, he made a lot of contributions which have a great impact on eastern society and many sciences. He was born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 AD (251 AH), and died there in 925 AD. During his life Razi was physician, philosopher, and scholar who made fundamental and enduring contributions to the fields of medicine, alchemy, and philosophy, he wrote more than 184 books and articles in various fields of science,

  • Al Razi; The Intellectual Figure Of The Abbasid Dynasty

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    Mohammad ibn Zakariya al Razi was born in Reyy, Tehran. Razi was a polymath, chemist, philosopher and physician. He won the title of ‘firsts’ in many of his works such as diagnosing smallpox from measles and discovering chemical compounds such as kerosene and alcohol. Razi served at courts as a physician and was in charge of two hospitals in Reyy and Baghdad. Some of his works under the title of medicine such as “Kitab al- Mansoori”, “Kitab al-Hawi fi al-tibb” and “Kitab al-Mulooki” are used till

  • Abu Bakr Al-Razi Research Paper

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    oath not to compose mortiferous remedies." A quote so true and so right was said by one of the greatest physician in history, Abu Bakr Al-Razi, also known as Razi. Abu Bakr Al-Razi was born 854 CE Ray (near Tehran), Iran. Abu Bakr Al-Razi was a famous physician, he was very hard working person, and he invented medicines to cure many diseases. Abu Bakr Al-Razi was a physician in the era of “Islamic Golden Age”. He was well educated in the fields of mathematics,philosophy, and metaphysics, but

  • Rough Draft: Bayt-al Hikma

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    from all around the Muslim world. Much of the modern world’s scientific and philosophical knowledge has its roots in the Abbasid caliphate, and Baghdad its capital. Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom was founded by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, and formally established by his son al-Mamun during the early middle ages of Europe. Bayt al-Hikma was a distinguished institution where a remarkable assemblage of scholars undertook the task of translating all of the scientific and philosophical classical age

  • Essay On Surah Al Kahf

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    The book reviewed thoroughly on the greatness of miracle stories in surah al-Kahf hence pondering the glorious meaning underlying it. Plus, the writer emphasized on what our last Prophet’s saying and Al-Quran highlights about the power of this surah as a protection against evilness and deceives nature of Dajjal itself, since Dajjal is the greatest evil at the Doomsday. Interestingly, surah al-Kahf was selected and highlighted by Allah to identify (Dajjal) solely and guard our spiritual gains against

  • Islam: The Golden Age

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    The period from the 8th – 13th century CE was a period in which we saw the emergence of a super empire known as The Muslim empire. The prophet Muhammad around 622 CE founded the Muslim empire. His writings were documented in a holy book called the Qur’an, which is the basis of Islam. During the time between the 8th-13th centuries the Muslim empire had expanded all the way from Spain to India. The empire, headed at the time by the Abbasid caliphate, was one of the largest and most influential empires

  • Avicenna Research Paper

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    Avicenna: An Ancient Practitioner of wet cupping Wet cupping was also practiced by famous Arab physicians such as Al-Razi, (865-925) or as he was known in the west, “Rhazes” and Ibn Sina, or as he’s best known in the west, “Avicenna”. Avicenna (August 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. Indeed, of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40

  • Features of Al-Masjid-Al-Nabawi Mosque

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    worship for practising Muslims where they can pray together. Al-Masjid-Al-Nabawi, also known as the prophet's mosque, is the second holiest mosque in the world and is the final resting place of the prophet Muhammad. The original mosque was built by the prophet himself. The mosque also served as a community centre, a court and a religious centre. The main religious texts provide no rules to what the mosque should look like. Al-Masjid-Al-Nabawi has gone under some major transformations form 629-1921

  • The Abbasid Rule: The Golden Age Of Islam

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    accurately describing new diseases, new surgical techniques, and better treatments. The most important of these advancements in the Golden age was the newly found emphasis on empirical instead of theoretical medicine, which came about due Abu Bakr al-Razi applied the same thought process while studying smallpox and measles, coming up with the first accurate description of the two diseases. In fact, most of his original contributions were in the world of clinical medicine. He encouraged diagnosing and

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

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    The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese shows the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle such as fear, reluctance, depression, doubt, and fear. However, the movie departs from the accepted Biblical depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. In other words, the movie is remotely derived from the Gospel of John, Luke, Mark, and Mathew. The movie starts with the renunciation that it is not based on the above gospels. Instead the movie is derived from the book, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos

  • The Cause of the Endless Wars Against the United States of America

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    hatred that propelled the attack.  So, the remote sources of this aggression are so deep rooted and far more numerous that it would require a global dialog to prevent such a tragedy in future. Sources Cited and Consulted Bulliet, Richard W. et al.  The Earth and Its People:  A Global History.  2nd ed.  New York:  Houghten Mifflin. Shama Omar.  "Terrorist's Video Vows Insecurity for America."  The Star Ledger.  8 Oct. 2001:  1-9. Zakaria, Fareed.  "Why Do They Hate Us?  The Politics of

  • Effective Use of Conflict in Shakespeare's As You Like It

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    swept away as we are by the sparkling wit of the play, its numerous songs, and the use of stage spectacle (such as the masque of Hymen). But precisely what enables Arden to have such a profound effect on the visitors (Rosalind, Orlando, Duke Senior et al.) is the fact that it is a retreat from the "painted pomp" of the "envious court". The twisted morality of the court, where Duke Frederick hates Rosalind for her virtue, is very much necessary for the purpose of the drama of the play; it is only through

  • Comparing Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

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    metal placed under a piece of jewelry to increase its brilliance" ("Foil"). Thus when applied to literature, the term refers to "a character who makes a contrast with another, especially a minor character who helps set off a major character" (Barnett et al. 1331). For example, a foolish character may place a wise character's wisdom in a stronger light, or a cowardly character may make the hero's actions appear even more courageous. A foil is frequently an antagonist or confidant, but whoever the foil

  • Male Dominance Over Women Traced Back to Roman Times

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    conception (qtd. in Lefkowitz et al. 228). Plato asserts that because "all concoction works by means of heat" and "some of the body's parts are 'principles'" (qtd. in Lefkowitz et al. 229), a lack of heat will affect concoction which will, in turn, affect a principle body part. This is crucial to the development of the body as "once a principle has been 'moved' (i.e. changed), many of the parts which cohere with it must of necessity change as well" (qtd. in Lefkowitz et al. 229). Therefore, no heat in

  • The Pros and Cons of the Two World Wars

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    all, as Voltaire said, “No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for” (Bulliet et al. 468). One can never put the world wars into the black-and-white categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ into which they have often been placed. But it will be interesting to explore the positive and negative effects of the wars, which changed the world forever as shown in The Earth and Its Peoples: A global History by Richard W. Bulliet et al., historical films like History Channel’s Manhattan Project - The Century and Heritage:

  • A Poet Protesting the Persecution of the Palestinian People

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    A Poet Protesting the Persecution of the Palestinian People Poets from every part of the world from all times of history have written about the issues of oppression and hardships of unfairness and discrimination. It is easy to find writings and poetry by African Americans, Hispanics, Japanese, Chinese, and even Native American poets. These nationalities are very well represented when it comes to poets shouting of the unfair treatment of their ethnic group. However, to find poetry and poets

  • The 19th Century Aesthetic Movement

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    popularity was the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. There, in numerous displays, many Americans, artists and craftsmen as well as the general public, were exposed to art objects from a great variety of nations and periods (Bolger Burke et al. 19). Most writers on the Aesthetic Movement agree that its roots lie in the reaction to Industrialization in mid-19th century England The movement incorporated both exotic and historical sources of design generally, the Japanese influence became the

  • The Food of the Gods

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    The Food of the Gods For over 2000 years, chocolate in its many forms has been enjoyed and its effects have been exalted. It was believed that the Mexican god Quetzalcoatl left the cocoa tree for the people. The Aztec emperor Montezuma is reported to have consumed 50 goblets of chocolate a day. It is called "the food of the gods," literally, as a translation of Theobroma Cacao, the cacao bean. (1). Such a title must imply that chocolate has some naturally occurring superior quality. Why else

  • Sports and Gender

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    Sports become stereotyped as gender-neutral, feminine, or masculine based on conceptions regarding gender, gender differences, and beliefs about the appropriateness of participation due to gender (Colley et al., 1987; Csizma, Wittig, & Schurr, 1988; Koivula, 1995; Matteo, 1986). Sports labeled as feminine seem to be those that allow women participants to act in accordance with the stereotyped expectations of femininity (such as being graceful and nonagressive) and that provide for beauty and aesthetic