LEIDEN, Netherlands, March 21 (KUNA) -- It is perhaps unknown that the university library in the Dutch city of Leiden has some of the oldest and rarest Arabic manuscripts dating back to early Islamic ...

The workshop was held at the Persian and Iranian Studies center of the university, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Thursday. Akbar Irani, the director of the Miras-e Maktub Research Center, a ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as “The Great Geometer”, have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...

Professor Witkam arrived to Tehran last week by invitation of Ali-Akbar Velayati, Head of the Islamic Civilization Committee. Witkam, who teaches archaeology at the College of Arts and Humanities of ...

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Qatar University (QU) yesterday hosted a ceremony to launch a special exhibition “The Beauty of Islamic Manuscripts – the Leiden Collection” in co-operation with the Netherlands embassy. Held under ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars ...

Three cuttlefish and other marine and terrestrial animals. From an Arabic manuscript of Dioscurides' Book of Herbs. Credit: Leiden University Libraries. Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely ...