Muslim Printing Before Gutenberg

Gutenberg does seem to have been the first to devise a printing press, but printing itself, tha ...

Blood Circulation

Ibn Al-Nafees and Discovery of the Blood Circulation System

Ibn Al-Nafees worked in the hospital as a physician, and later as a teacher of medicine. Owing ...

Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics

After failing in his attempt to regulate the flow of the Nile, Ibn Al-Haytham feared that al-Ha ...