Category Archives: Academics

Peer Review

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Muller

In a recent article on AntiWar.com by Muhammad Sahimi an apparent information leakage of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and David Albright’s Institute of Science and International Security (ISIS) was linked to Olli Heinonen, IAEA’s deputy director for safeguards. Albright’s … Continue reading →

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A ‘Road to Damascus’ Experience of the Special Kind

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Muller

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. phil. habil. Sven Muhammad Kalisch (42) seeks publicity these days. As may be traced in his rapidly inflated German Wikipedia entry, he had been appointed in 2004 chairman of the Islam Department at the Center for … Continue reading →

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The Mysterious North Dome of Esfahan’s Great Mosque

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Muller

From a mainly architectural point of view, Esfahan contains one of Islam’s most significant buildings, its marvelous Masjed-e Jomeh [1]. As Oleg Grabar puts it in his wonderful book [2], one might rightly consider Esfahan’s Great Mosque as the “Chartres … Continue reading →

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Falsafa

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Muller

The work of Greek philosophers, mainly Aristotle but also few of Plato, had been translated into Arabic very early after the Abbasid revolution in the 8th century and continued down to the 10th century. In fact, these great works of … Continue reading →

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Medical Information Transfer into Practice in the 21st Century: A Revolution

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Muller

  Advance! Advance! We advance. We advance. Can we advance? Can we advance? Can we? Can we? Henry Cow 1980 [1]  When having recently been asked to write an op-ed, I was wondering whether the above could be a good … Continue reading →

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