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Category Archives: Book Review
Master John and Brother James
I have to admit that, after the media hype about Reza Aslan’s Jesus biography (in particular after he was interviewed by Fox News’ Lauren Green), only then I became curious of Zealot – The life and times of Jesus of … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review
Tagged Apostle Paul, James the Just, Jesus of Nazareth, Jewish-Roman wars, John the Baptist, Reza Aslan
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Strong Beliefs
When recently reading with growing interest Patricia Crone’s latest book about The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran – Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012) I came across a most unlikely reference, Reinhold Loeffler’s interviews of Boyer … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Iran, Islam
Tagged anthropology, Boyer Ahmadi, Erika Friedl, Patricia Crone, Reinhold Loeffler, Shi'a Islam, Zagros
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An Iranian Blend
Up to the so-called Sunni Revival long after the conquest of much of the Islamic World, and foremost Iran, by the Seljuqs in the first half of the 11th century, the religious denomination of Iranians has never been so clear. … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Iran, Islam
Tagged Abbasid revolution, Abu Muslim, Al-Muqanna, Azerbaijan, Babak, Ishak al-Turk, Islamic Third Civil War, Jibal, Khorasan, Khurramism, Mazdakism, nikah al-mutah, Patricia Crone, Sasanid empire, Sunbadh, Transoxiana, Umayyads, Yahiya bin Zayd, Yazdegerd III, Zoroastrianism
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Avicenna’s Systematic Reviews
That great medieval polymath and philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), or Avicenna as he is known in the West, might in fact be regarded as father (or inventor) of medical systematic reviews [1], nowadays considered as the highest level of … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Iran, Medicine
Tagged Avicenna, Bukhara, clinical trial, Dentistry, Galen, Golden Age of Islam, Hamadan, Ibn Sina, Islamic medicine, Jinan Rashid, systematic review, traditional medicine, Transoxiana
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