AVICENNA - HISTORY'S PRODIGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (06) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Shakhnoza Ganieva ◽  
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Professor Kamola Baltabayevna Akilova ◽  

The earliest of the manuscripts available in the world, "Kitab al-Qanun fi-t-tibb" ("Canon of Medicine"), by the great Abu Ali ibn Sina (980-1037), dating back to the 12th century, is kept in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. This major work has been the most complete encyclopedia of medicine for a millennium. As early as in the 12th century, it was translated in Europe from Arabic into Latin by the Italian Gerard of Cremona (1114-1187) and then disseminated in many manuscripts. "The Canon of Medicine," Avicenna began writing when he was twenty years old and completed this work in 1020-at the age of forty, when Avicenna's medical and life experience was vast. This article is just an attempt to lift the veil over the mystery of the genius' formation, and how this priceless folio, created in the ancient Uzbek land, came to St. Petersburg.

Author(s):  
Zemfira Mammadova

Azerbaijan people have rich and ancient cultural traditions and have contri­buted extensively to the world brilliant masterpieces of artistic, philosophical and scientific thought. This cultural heritage is known not only in Azerbaijan, but also all over the world. Since antiquity, there were large libraries in Azerbaijan. The Institute of manuscripts of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has a collection of 453 medical manuscripts, dating from the IX century. Seventy three manuscripts were written in Arabic, sixty ones – in Turkic (Azeri and Ottoman Turkish) and three thousand twenty ones - in Persian languages. In 29 July 2005 UNESCO officially included three medieval medical manuscripts from the Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences into the register of the Memory of the World Program which includes the most unique and irreplaceable written monuments of the humankind. The Certificate confirming this decision was presented to the Institute of Manuscripts by Dr. Matsuura, the head of UNESCO. One of them oldest copies of the second volume of “Canon of Medicine” (1030) by Ibn Sina, know in the West as Avicenna (980-1037). Second book is “Zakhira-I Nizamshahi” was written in the XIII century by the famous Central Asian author Zeynaddin Ibn Abu Ibrahim Jurjani. The manuscripts are unique and not found in other manuscripts deposits in the world. The third book is “al-Maqalatun Salasun” by Abulkasim Zakhravı. One of the rarest and most ancient manuscripts of this book in the World. Ancient manuscripts, being a unique invention of mankind, had an impact on the entire history in general and on medicine in particular.


Author(s):  
Vladimir Kolossov

The author is Head of the Centre of Geopolitical Studies at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow,Professor at the University of Toulouse - Le Mirail (France) and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Political Geography. He is the author of 12 books and has published in Political Geography, GeoJournal, Geopolitics, Eurasian Geography and Economy (formerly Post-Soviet Geography and Economy,) and other international and national journals. His most recent books include La Russie (la construction de l'identité nationale) in co-authorship with Denis Eckert (Paris, Flammarion, 1999); Geopolitics and Political Geography, in co-authorship with N. Mironenko (Moscow, Aspekt-Press, 2001, in Russian); and editor, The World in the Eyes of Russian Citizens: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy (Moscow, FOM, 2002, in Russian). 


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Makbul

Islam with its culture has been running for approximately 15 centuries. In such a long journey there are 5 amazing journey centuries in philosophical thought, namely between the 7th century to the 12th century. During that time, the Islamic philosophers thought about how the position of humans with others, humans with nature and humans with God, using their minds. They think systematically, analytically and critically, thus giving birth to Islamic philosophers who have high abilities because of their wisdom. Islamic philosophy grows and develops in two different areas, namely philosophy in the Masyriqi region (east) and philosophy in the Maghreb region (West). After Islam came, the Arabs controlled the areas of Persia, Syria and Egypt. So that the center of government moved from Medina to Damascus. At that time, two major cities emerged that played an important role in the history of Islamic thought, namely Basra and Kufa.Islamic philosophy in the eastern part of the world is different from the philosophy of Islam in the western world. Among the Islamic philosophers in the two regions there were differences of opinion on various points of thought. In the East there are several prominent philosophers, such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina. While in the West there are also some well-known philosophers, namely, Ibn Bajah, Ibn Thufail, and Ibn Rushd.


2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Аnatoliy Vladimirovich ZAKHAROV ◽  

The relevance of the work is due to the need to study the mineralogy of granite pegmatites of the Lipovskiy vein field, a unique object that gave the world a large amount of crystal raw materials of colored tourmaline Purpose of the work: study of zincohögbomite found in granite pegmatites of the Lipovskiy vein field (Middle Urals). Research methodology: quantitative analysis of the chemical composition of magnetite was carried out using the X-ray spectral electron probe microanalyzer CAMECA SX 100 (The Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg). The chemical composition of zincohögbomite was determined using the Jeol JSM-6390LV scanning electron microscope with an INCA Energy 450 X-Max 80 energy dispersive attachment from Oxford Instruments (The Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg). Results. When studying the surface of magnetite crystals, pore spaces were found inlaid with flattened grains of an unknown mineral, mainly triangular, less often hexagonal, in shape, up to 2–3 microns in size. Based on the data on its chemical composition, this mineral was assigned to zincohögbomite. Based on crystallochemical calculations, it was found that the mineral corresponds to zincohögbomite-2H2S or zincohögbomite-8H according to the old classification. Conclusions. A new mineral was found for granite pegmatites of the Lipovskiy vein field – zincohögbomite-2H2S. It was found in the form of inclusions in magnetite individuals in common intragranite pegmatites. This is the second find of zincohögbomite in the Urals and, most likely, the first one in the world in granite pegmatites. The formation of zincohögbomite is associated with retrograde metamorphism of amphibolite facies, when primary spinels become unstable and decompose into several mineral phases. Zincohögbomite from Lipovskiy field was formed as a result of the decomposition of primary magnetite during the cooling of granite pegmatite.


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