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t. e. Ibn Sina ( Arabic: اِبْن سِینَا, romanized : Ibn Sīnā; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( / ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/ ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [4] [5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [6]
ISBN. 978-0808403197. What Is Philosophy? ( German: Was ist das - die Philosophie) is a book by the philosopher Martin Heidegger. It is the published version of a lecture course he gave at Cerisy-la-Salle in 1955. [1] It was translated into English by William Kluback and Jean T. Wilde.
De docta ignorantia ( Latin: On learned ignorance/on scientific ignorance) is a book on philosophy and theology by Nicholas of Cusa (or Nicolaus Cusanus), who finished writing it on 12 February 1440 in his hometown of Kues, Germany. Earlier scholars had discussed the question of "learned ignorance". Augustine of Hippo, for instance, stated ...
The Baro-Bhuyans (or Baro-Bhuyan Raj; also Baro-Bhuians and Baro-Bhuiyans) were confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The confederacies consisted of loosely independent entities, each led by a warrior chief or a landlord. The tradition of Baro-Bhuyan is peculiar to both ...
Syed Ameer Ali. Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India [5] (6 April 1849 – 3 August 1928) was an Indian jurist, a prominent political leader, and author of a number of influential books on Muslim history and the modern development of Islam. [1] [2] [3] [6] He hailed from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down in the ...
History of Ethiopia. The Gondarine period (alt. Gondarian) was a period of Ethiopian history between the ascension of Emperor Fasilides in 1632 and a period of decentralization in 1769, known as the Zemene Mesafint. Gondar was founded by Emperor Fasilides in 1636 as a permanent capital, and became a highly stable, prosperous commercial center.
The Bangladesh Army is the land warfare branch and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to provide necessary forces and capabilities to deliver the Bangladeshi government's security and defence strategies and defending the nation's territorial integrity against external attack.
The Elements ( Greek: Στοιχεῖα Stoikheîa) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid c. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions ( theorems and constructions ), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The books cover plane and solid Euclidean ...