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Detailed Program Agenda
Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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9:30 – 11:00 Opening Session |
| Opening Addresses |
• Dr Youssef Ziedan (Director of Manuscript
Center/Museum)
Our Unknown Scientific Heritage |
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• Dr Aladine Lolah (Director of the
Institute for the History of Arabic Science
Arab & International Efforts for the Compilation and Editing of Arabic
Scientific Heritage (Reality & Prospects) |
• Dr Mohamed Nizar Uqail (Dean of Aleppo University)
Guest Address |
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11:00-12:45 Session 1 |
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• Chairman: Ahmed El-Gendy(Egypt) |
• Dr Abdel-Hamid Sabra
(Egypt/USA):
With Ibn al-Haytham in Optics: the Manuscripts of his Magnum Opus & its
Problems |
• Dr Bouthayna Jalkhi (Syria):
Ibn al-Haytham's Perception of the Images of Objects via Reflection |
• Dr Moussa Zemouli (Algeria):
Mathematics and the Classification of Sciences: A Reading into two
Maghrebi Manuscripts |
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1:00-2:30 Session 2 |
| • Chairman: Dr Aladine Lolah (Syria) |
• Dr Mohamed Hassan El-Tayyan
(Syria):
Ibn-al-Durayhim's Poem on Hal Rumuz al-Mukatabat wa fahm Aqlam
al-Mutaqaddimin |
• Dr Adbel-Wahid Zunun (Iraq):
al-Bayrūnī's Maqālīd ‘Ilm al-Hay’a |
• Dr Khaled Azab (Egypt):
Unknown Manuscripts on Arab-Islamic Architecture |
• Dr Yahya Miralam (Kuwait):
Šawq al-Mustaham fi Ma'rifat Rumuz al-Aqlam |
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3:30-5:00 Session 3 |
| • Chairman: Dr Mohamed Nizar Uqail (Syria) |
• Dr Mohamed Qijja (Syria)
Development of Scientific Methodology in Arabic Historiography |
• Dr Mohamed Abdel-Wahab Galal (Egypt):
Introduction to the Causes of the Degeneration of Arabic Science |
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• Dr Mohamed Saleh El-Nawawi (Egypt):
Revolution of Celestial Bodies According to Ibn- al-Šātir and Nasīr-al-Dīn
al-Tūsī |
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5:00-6:30 Session 4 |
| • Chairman: Moustafa Shehata (Egypt) |
• Dr Constantin Canavas
(Greece):
Technological Imagery in Arabic Cosmographies |
• Dr Mohammed El-Gomati (UK):
Application of Engineering Graphics & Computer Simulation in the Study of
Extinct Machines: The Cases of Banu Musa, Al-Jazari and Taqi al-Din |
• Dr Youssef Guergour
(Algeria):
Plane Euclidean Geometry in al-Mu'taman bin Hud al-Sarqasti's Kitab
al-Istikmal |
• Dr Sami Chalhoub (Syria)
Unknown Geometrical Aspects in the Manuscript of al-Hāwī |
| 6:30 |
Library Tour |
| 7:00 |
Manuscript & Rare
Book Showroom Tour |
| Dinner (at the Hotel) |
Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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10:00-12:30 Session 5 |
| • Chairman: Dr Maher Abdel-Qadir (Egypt) |
• Dr Ahmed Arhim Hebou (Syria):
Medicine & Pharmacology in the Ancient Civilizations of the East
(Mesopotamia and Syria) |
• Dr Ifaqa EL-JANABI (Iraq)
Thābit bin-Qurra's Influence on the
Development of the Magic Square and
Amicable Numbers |
• Dr Ossama Nasir El-Naqshabadi (Iraq):
Scientific Efforts of King al-Ašraf al-Ghasānī & his Contributions to the
Development of the Astrolabe |
• Dr Zafir al-Wafa’i
(Syria)
Arab Oculists' Genuine Contributions in Ophthalmology |
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1:30-2:30 Session
6 |
| • Chairman: Dr Mohamed Qijja
(Syria) |
• Dr Gotthard Strohmaier (Germany):
Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places |
• Dr Moustafa Mawalidi (Syria):
Irrational Roots Applications: A Reading into a Rare Manuscript |
• Dr Mohamed Taha El-Jasser (Syria)
Unknown Aspects of Arabic Medical Contributions to the West |
• Dr Fouad Uwila (Syria):
Arabic Contributions to Euclid's Elements |
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3:30-5:00 Session 7 |
| • Chairman: Dr Mohamed Saleh (Egypt) |
• Dr Mohamed El-Shayeb (Syria):
Study & Edition of al-Kāfī fīl-Tib by Ibn al-‘Ayn Zarbī |
• Dr Ifaqa El-Janabi (Iraq):
Thābit bin-Qurra's Influence on the Development of the Magic Square and
Amicable Numbers |
• Dr Abdel-Nasir Ka‘dan
(Syria):
al-Qarbilyanī's Tumour Causality Theory from a Modern Oncological
Perspective |
• Dr Nabila Abdel-Moneim Dawoud (Iraq):
A Reading into Kinz al-Tujjār fī Ma‘rifat al-Ahjār |
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5:00-6:30 Session 8 |
| • Chairman: Dr Faisal El-Hafyan
(Syria): |
• Dr Nashaat Hamarna (Syria):
The Impact of the Alexandrian Manuscript Collections on pre-Islamic
Christian/Syrian Writers & Arab-Muslim Physicians |
• Dr Jinan Abdel-Jalil El-Hamawandi (Iraq):
Eye Diseases (Sixth Treatise by Galen) |
• Dr Ahmed El-Sheikh Qaddur
(Syria)
Unknown Aspects of Arabic Pharmacology |
• Dr Ahmed Haloubi (Syria)
Arab Agronomists' Contributions to Plant Breeding |
| 7:00 Planetarium Show |
| Dinner (at the Hotel) |
Thursday, 30 September 2004
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10:00-11:00 Closing Session |
| Speakers: |
• Dr Youssef Ziedan
• Dr Aladine Lolah |
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