Of Islam

Taslimi, M. "An examination of the Nihayat al-talab and the determination of its place and value in the history of Islamic chemistry." PhD thesis, University College, London, 1954. 

Holmyard, Eric John. Some alchemists of Islam. Aryan Path 3, no. 2 (Feb 1932) 102-106. 

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic science an illustrated study. World of Islam Festival Publ Co, 1976. 272p. 

Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leyden London Brill Luzac, 1927. S.v. "al-Kimiya, alchemy," by E. Wiedemann. 

Goldfarb, A.M. Alfonso-. "The establishment of Islamic alchemy in the Iberian peninsula." In Alchemy revisited, ed. Z.R.W.M. von Martels, 127-132. Leiden Brill,... 

In The Jewish discovery of Islam studies in honor of Bernard Lewis, ed. Martin Kramer. Tel Aviv The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999. 

Arnold, T. and A. Guillaume. The legacy of Islam. Oxford Clarendon P, 1931. 416p. 

Science and Civilization in Islam is the first one-volume work in English to deal with every branch of Islamic science and to approach it not from the Western viewpoint but as it is understood by the Muslims them selves. introduction surveys the religious, metaphysical, and philosophic conscepts of Islam. chapter cover the entire scientific spectrum from cosmography, mathematics, and medicine to alchemy and theology as well as how these fields interact with related schools of thought"... 

During the Golden Age of Islam (7th through the 17th century) Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. Here documentary writer Howard Turner offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to the scientific achievements of medieval Islam. Howard Turner opens with a historical overview of the spread of Islamic civilization from the Arabian peninsula eastward to India and westward across northern... 

Holmyard, Eric John. Some chemists of Islam. Sci Prog 18, no. 69 (Jul 1923) 66-75. 

Mason, R. B. and M. S. Tite (1994), The beginnings of islamic stone paste technology, Archaeometry 36, 77-91. 

FBIS, Russian Newspaper on Union of Islamic Movements in Central Asia, Moscow Pravda, September 16, 2002 as cited in Gilmore 2002. 

Al-Saad, Z. (2000). Technology and provenance of a collection of Islamic copper-based objects as found by chemical and lead isotope analysis. 

Al-Saad, Z. (2002) Chemical composition and manufacturing technology of a collection of various types of Islamic glazes excavated from Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science 29 803-810. 

Eiland, M. L. and Williams, Q. (2001). Investigation of Islamic ceramics from Tell Tuneinir using X-ray diffraction. Geoarchaeology 16 875-903. 

Sufism The beliefs and practices of a sect of Islamic mystics... 

The Greek writers make numerous references to opium with some evidence that they used species other than P. somniferum. Hippocrates, considered by some to be the father of medicine, rejected the supernatural attributes of opium but acknowledges opium s usefulness as a narcotic, especially in the treatment of certain diseases. It has been claimed that Alexander the Great took opium to Persia and India in 330 BC. The Romans continued the use of opium in medical applications and there is little evidence that addiction was a problem in these ancient cultures. After the rise of Islam, the use of opium in medicine was further developed and documented. At some stage, the Arab spice traders took opium to the Far East and some credited them with introducing it to China. By the middle ages, the drinking of opium mbctures for recreational use is recorded in Persia and India. 

The final Acehnese revolt against the Dutch, and the most successful, was largely the work of PUSA. The Japanese occupied Penang and northern Malaya in mid-December 1941, but it was another three months before they invaded northern Sumatra. A PUSA activist and ulama, Said Abu Bakar, surprised the Japanese fifth-column specialist, Col. Iwaichi Fujiwara, by seeking him out to offer active support with no particular quid pro quo. He told Fujiwara, the people of Aceh were extremely hostile to the Dutch Government, but also to the uleebalang because they also oppress the people, even more than the Dutch. .. They are not afraid to die in the name of Islam (Fujiwara 1966 200-1). 

The aggressive expansion of Islamic Aceh in the period 1520-1630, at the expense of all the varied coastal states, ensured a separation not only between Bataks and Islam, but also between Bataks and the port-states... 

LA-TOF-ICP-MS may be a useful tool for distinguishing different sources of lead found in low-lead, alkaline-based and lead-based glazes from Mesopotamia. Even with the limitations of the present study, lead-isotope ratios determined by TOF-ICP-MS indicate that multiple ore sources were utilized by makers of Islamic lead-glazed pottery. With the further refinements of Dudgeon et al. (this volume), LA-TOF-ICP-MS promises to be a rapid, cost-effective approach to lead-isotope ratio analysis of glazed pottery. 

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