Dr. Ali Akbar Ziaee — новинки

Medicine and health care were perhaps the highest scientific achievement of the Muslims during the Middle Ages. The author discusses the history of rainbow and attempts to provide a historical and scientific explanation for the rainbow phenomenon according to Muslim scientists generally and Hocazade especially. Marifetname deals with classical scientific subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, medicine and physics. It also offers discussions on modern scientific concepts and presents certain contradictory statements on Islamic sciences. Dr Ziaee also discuses the quality of representing the human values like freedom, liberality, tolerance, faith, certainty, and etc in the form of semantics. In the last chapter he criticizes Nasir Khusraw''s definition of the first intellect and then describes his position of ‘ibda'' or innovation. Ziaee tries to debate Nasir Khusraw''s relevant philosophical issues and contradictions in his works respect to these narrow field of study.

The Marifetname, deals with classical scientific subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, medicine and physics, and also offers discussions on modern scientific concepts and makes certain contradictory statements on "Islamic science" and "science." It is an interesting Islamic and scientific encyclopaedia in Turkish. Ibrahim Hakki was an eighteenth-century Turkish saint and religious scholar who was an expert in anatomy, astronomy and mysticism. He presents the fundamental theories of Islamic cosmology concerning heaven, hell, barzakh, skies, earth, the planets of our solar system, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, seas, mountains, and the function of human organs, diseases and other medical issues as well as Islamic mysticism. In every part of this research, Dr. Ali Akbar Ziaee referred to Marifetname1 to describe Hakki''s position to Islamic cosmology, geometry, evolution, and astronomy.

The author of this book has resided for five years (1994-2000) in Albania and four years (2003-2007) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During this period, he was engaged in many cultural activities and introduced the Islamic culture and Persian literature to the Albanians and the Bosnians. In this book, he has portrayed many issues such as sufism in Albania, Naim Freasheri''s biography and works, Hasan Kafi''s and Hancic''s contributions to the Islamic culture in Bosnia, and other interesting articles and researches.