A History of Herbal Medicine for Herbalists (or How the Persians/Arabs Saved Greek Sciences)These pharmacists introduced alarge numberof new drugs(herbs) to clinical practice fromaround the known world. Someof these weresenna, camphor, sandalwood,musk, myrrh,cassia, tamarind, nutmeg, cl...
Iran is not an Arab country. Iranians are not Arabs.The language spoken is Persian (also known as Farsi) and not Arabic (although there are many languages spoken within Iran including Kurdish and forms of Turkish, Indo-European languages and Khuzi Arabic for example, due to the many ethnic...
We got that word from “norange” a French interpretation of an Italian word which came by way of Persians or Arabs. Trace it all the way back and you learn that the fruit and the name came from Tamil lands in southern India where it originally meant “fragrant fruit” நரந்...
The city with its 8500 years old history is a cornucopia of civilizations and was home to Amazons, Lydians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, Byzantines, Seljuks, and Ottomans. The weather in İzmir is hot and dry during the summers, while it is warm and rainy in winters [85]. Some of ...
“Among the first race, which is located primarily in Europe, I count also the Moors (Mauretanian from Africa), the Arabs (following Niebuhr), the Turkish-Tataric ethnic tribe and the Persians, as well as all other peoples from Asia who are not explicitly excluded from it by the ...
Mombasa has had a turbulent history, dating back to the Omani Arabs’ realm of influence and the bloody skirmishes with Portuguese explorers, who established Fort Jesus in 1591. The Omani Sultan had relocated his headquarters from Muscat to Zanzibar in 1832, and laid claims over the territory ...
There were also records found where Persians made sweet chilled drinks with ice from the freezing water in the desert. Arabs also drunk sherbet or sharab, a chilled beverage. Travelers brought the recipes to Europe, which became very popular. Italians developed a variety of recipes. In 1694, ...
It is easy to learn the ancient rules of play, and to get a feeling for chess as it was experienced by Persians and Arabs long ago. Let's look at the old game, known throughout ancient Islam asshatranj,starting with features that are familiar to a modern chess player. The game was ...