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Yusuf al-Baghdadi ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī ( Arabic : عبداللطيف البغدادي , 1162 Baghdad –1231 Baghdad), short for Muwaffaq al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī ( Arabic : موفق الدين محمد عبد اللطيف بن يوسف البغدادي ), was a physician , philosopher, historian ...
- Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi
- Muhammad ibn Yusuf, c. 1162, Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, short for Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (Arabic: موفق الدين محمد عبد اللطيف بن يوسف البغدادي ; 1162–1231), or Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (Arabic: عبداللطيف البغدادي ), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous ...
Primary Source. Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Autobiography. Annotation. In medieval times, education was a key factor of Islamic society. It was considered the purpose for which God created man. As such, belief and education were not separated from one another.
Abd al-Latif travelled extensively and spent a large part of his life in Aleppo, Cairo and Damascus, all three of which were important intellectual centres in the medieval Islamic world. Under the supervision of numerous famous teachers, he first studied introductory subjects – such as Arabic grammar, lexicology, and poetry – and later ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Vast and Innumerable Throngs of the Ancient Dead. A medieval account of Egyptian burial practices and tomb robbers. By Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi. Wednesday, November 02, 2022. Purifying and Mourning the Dead, Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky, by Charles K. Wilkinson, c. 1390 bc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Rogers Fund, 1930.
Jan 1, 2020 · ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī. Cecilia Martini Bonadeo. Reference work entry. First Online: 01 January 2020. 64 Accesses. Abstract. Between the eight and the ninth centuries, the production of original philosophical and scientific treatises became dominant with respect to the study of Greek philosophical and scientific literature in Arabic translation.
Many of the achievements of the European Renaissance were later based on the accumulated knowledge of medieval Islamic civilization. The selections from this document provide a glimpse into the education that made a great scholar of the Islamic Middle Ages.
