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Documentary about Zheng He

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

This is a documentary about a Chinese explorer/geogpraher, maybe engineer named Zheng He. Chinese, huh? Did I post on the wrong sight, no really he was also brough up a Muslim. This documentary descibes his upbringing in a part of rural China where Islam was practiced, and is still practices today. But heres the question, […]

Behzad’s Wiki Contribution-History of Mathematics…

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

This is the page I tried to edit but was unsuccesful  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics specifically, the “History” subsection. here’s what I have written: From the ninth century to the fifteenth century, scholars and scientists from various parts of the vast Islamic Empire contributed extensively to various fields such as mathematics, astronomy, geography, chemistry, medicine, and pharmacology, among […]

wiki assignment

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I wrote about Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu a Turkish surgeon. Initially i wanted to delete all of what it had and just have my stuff but wiki wouldn’t let me so i posted my paragraph at the beginning because the previous person didn’t write much and what they wrote was plagiarised from another webpage. So here is […]

wiki

Monday, March 8th, 2010

This is Reem, and for the assignment, I: I edited the ‘pharmacy’ section on the Medicine in Medieval Islam page. References (are #80 and 81 under ‘Notes’ on wiki): syed, ibrahim B.. “1000 years ahead of its times.” Islamic medicine (2002): 1-8. Print. http://www.ishim.net/ishimj/2/01.pdf tschanz, David W.. “a short history of islamic pharmacy.” (2003): 1-7. […]

Monday, March 8th, 2010

My edits to Wikipedia were split between 2 articles: 1. Edited the “Science in the Islamic World” section of the article entitled “The History of Science.” I added two new paragraphs, one about Ibn-Sina (several other prominent Islamic scientists were featured but not him, and I felt that he was too important to be left […]

Wiki Assignment

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Hey FINALLY done. Thank God lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ali_Ibn_Isa&oldid=348636447 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shams_al-D%C4%ABn_Ab%C5%AB_Abd_All%C4%81h_al-Khal%C4%ABl%C4%AB&oldid=348638632 Ali ibn Isa (940-1010AD) is considered one of the most famous physicians of the tenth century. His famous Notebook of the Oculists combined information obtained from both Greco-Roman and Arab sources. The book encompassed information on treatment and classification of over one hundred different eye diseases. In […]

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Hello, I have completed the wiki assignment. I have added two new sections to the “history of medicine page” in the Arabic and Persian Medicine section. Here is the link to it History of medicine. (2010, March 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:05, March 9, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_medicine&oldid=348635794 and post the whole thing […]

wiki

Monday, March 8th, 2010

serafeddin sabuncuoglu <– a surgeon guy

Wikipedia Submission

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Ok so I have completed my wikipedia assignment.   1.Inventions in Medeival Islam: I added a section at the end called “Purpose of Mechanical Inventions” discussing the role of technology in Muslim society. I used 3 sources. Old Version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inventions_in_medieval_Islam&oldid=348321911 New: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inventions_in_medieval_Islam&oldid=348626269   2.Funding of Science: I added a section solely about funding/patronage of science […]

Wiki Assignment

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Oops I forgot to put my topics up – if we still have to. I’m doing Translation Movement – editing the page that has only one sentence on it :s and I’ll be doing Bioethics in Islam. Hilary

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