• Giordano Bruno
    • no (1548 -2/17/1600) G/iordano Bruno's father, Giovanni Bruno, was a professional soldier who married Fraulissa Savolino. They baptised their son Filippo Bruno but later Filippo was called "Il Nolano" afte...
    • Galileo Galilei
    • ei ( 2/15/1564- 1/8/1642) Born in Pisa in 1564, Galileo Galilei, known usually as just Galileo, taught first in his native city, and then in Padua. FromPadua he went to Florence, called there by Cosimo II, who nomin...
    • Edna St. Vincet Millay
    • illay   (February22, 1892-October19, 1950)   Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American poet, One of the most popular poets of her era, Millay was admired as much for the bohemian freedom of her youthful li...
    • Arthur Schopenhauer
    • er (2/22/1788-9/21/1860) Arthur Schopenhauer is frequently referred to as a pessimist who inaugurated an emphasis on the will in modern philosophy. His early education was in France and England; he entered the Un...
    • W. H. Auden
    • en February21, 1907-September29, 1973)) Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden),1907–73, Anglo-American poet, b.York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the m...
    • Victor Hugo
    • Hugo ( February26,1802-May22,1885) Novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play CROMWELL (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of...
    • Paul Ricoeur
    • ur Born: 2/27/1913 Born in Valence, Paul Ricoeur taught at Strasbourg and at the Sorbonne before guiding the new University of Nanterre in the difficult moment that 1969 was. After retirement, he taught in America, p...
    • Martin Luther
    • er (11/10/1483-- 2/18/1546) Martin Luther was born in Eisleben (only in german) in 1483, the son of a mining family of rural origin. He attended the Latin School in Mansfeld from 1488 onwards, continuing his schooling...
    • Alfred North Whitehead
    • ad (2/15/1861- 12/30/1947) Alfred North Whitehead's father, also named Alfred Whitehead, was an Anglican clergyman from Ramsgate. He is said to have been an upright man with countless friends and Alfred North White...
    • A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
    • hing African Cultural Stories During the colonial period in Kenya there were three Kikuyu men Kioi, Githogori and Kaminju who thought that they knew everything. They decided to go to adult education classes to learn...
    • Verse of the week
    • eek "And whatsoever ye have been given is a comfort of the life of the world and an ornament thereof; and that which Allah hath is better and more lasting. Have ye then no sense?" Qur'an 28:60 ...
    • Zariyat(Winnowing[winds])
    • ds]) Name It is derived from the very first word wa al-dhariyat, which implies that it is a Surah which begins with the word al-dhariyat. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the style clearly show that it w...
    • Charmides, or Temperance
    • ance Plato http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/charmides.html 2-Laches, or Courage Plato http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/laches.html 3-Cratylus Plato http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/cratylus.html 4-Ion Pl...
    • University of Tabriz
    • riz http://www.tabrizu.ac.ir/ The initial idea of establishing the University of Tabriz born a year after the termination of the threatening international catastrophe; the Second World War and took shape very soon o...
    • Sir Thomas More
    • re ( February 7 , 1478 - July 6 , 1535 ) Thomas More studied at Canterbury Hall,Oxford, and read law at the Inns of Court, being called to the bar in 1501. Thomas was happiest in the bosom of his family--three generati...
    • Rene Descartes
    • es (3/31/1596- 2/11/1650) "Cogito Ergo Sum". ("I think, therefore I am.") René Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town of La Haye in the south of France, the son of  Joachim Desc...
    • Immanuel Kant
    • nt (4/22/1724- 2/12/1804) Kant is most famous for his view—called transcendental idealism —that we bring innate forms and concepts to the raw experience of the world, which otherwise would be completely unknowable....
    • Giulio Cesare Vanini
    • ni (Died:2/9/1619) 1. Dates Born: Taurisano,Lecce (Southern Italy), c. 1585 Died: Toulouse, France,9 February 1619 Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain Lifespan: 34 2. Father Occupation: Government Official Vanini was the so...
    • Eid Al Ghadir
    • dir "Today I have perfected your religion and completed my favor upon you, and I was satisfied that Islam be your religion." (Qur'an 5:3) The flaming orange sun is now directly overhead, casting intense heat on a...
    • The Wild Swans
    • ns Hans Christian Andersen FAR away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a...
    • Positive Idea
    • Go out and change the world. The more you study, the more you should have-- A GOAL you should be pursuing; A DREAM your should be launching; A PLAN you should be executing; A PROJECT you should be start...
    • Qaf
    • Qaf Name The Surah derives its name from the initial letter Qaf, thereby implying that it is the Surah which opens with the alphabetic letter Qaf. Period of Revelation There is no authentic tradition to show as to ...
    • The University of Jordan
    • an http://www.ju.edu.jo/ The University of Jordan is both a modern as well as old institution of Higher Education in Jordan. Established in 1962, the University has, since then, applied itself to the advancem...
    • Quranic Christians:
    • ians:  An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis Jane Dammen McAuliffe Binding: Hardcover, 340 pages Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr Published Date: 04/01/1991 The Muslim perception of Christianity and Ch...
    • Kenzaburo Oe
    • o Oe  (Janvier 31, 1935- )  Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. His family had lived in the village tradition for several hu...
    • Joseph Priestley
    • ey (3/13/1733- 2/6/1804) The English Presbyterian minister and chemist, was born, a cloth-dresser's son, at Fieldhead in Birstall Parish,Leeds. At the grammar school he entered in 1745, Priestley learned Latin, Gree...
    • Imre Lakatos
    • os ( 11/9/1922- 2/2/1974) Imre Lakatos was a philosopher of mathematics . He was born Imre Lipschitz in Hungary . He received a degree in mathematics, physics , and philosophy from the University of Debrece...
    • Hugo von Hofmannsthal
    • hal pseudonym Loris February 1 , 1874 - July 15 , 1929 Hugo von Hofmannsthal , was an Austrian librettist , poet , dramatist , narrator, and essayist.Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna , the son of a bank ma...
    • Arnold Geulincx
    • cx (1/31/1624- 1669) GEULINCX, ARNOLD (1624-1669), Belgian philosopher, was born at Antwerp on the 31st of January 1624. He studied philosophy and medicine at theUniversity of Louvain, where he remained as a lecturer for ...
    • The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
    • rrow Folktales from Japan Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. The old man, who had a kind heart, kept a young sparrow, which he tenderly nurtured. But the dame was a cross-grained old thing; ...
    • Bertrand Russell
    • Russell (5/18/1872- 2/2/1970) Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970), the third Earl Russell, was a philosopher and influential logician, an important political liberal, activist and a popularizer of philosophy...
    • Verse of the week
    • ek ALLAH TELLS MUHAMMAD THE STORY OF ABRAHAM "And mention in the Book Abraham; surely he was a true man, a Prophet. When he said to his father, 'Father, why worshippest thou that which-neither hears nor sees, nor ...
    • Al-Hujurat
    • rat (The [inner] Apartments) Name The Surah takes its name from verse 4 in which the word hujurat has occurred. Period of Revelation Traditions show and the subject matter of the Surah also supports the same that t...
    • Quotation of the week
    • LLAH TELLS MUHAMMAD THE STORY OF ABRAHAM "And mention in the Book Abraham; surely he was a true man, a Prophet. When he said to his father, 'Father, why worshippest thou that which-neither hears nor sees, nor avai...
    • Iran University of Science
    • ence & Technology http://www.iust.ac.ir/IUSTEntry/ Iran University of science and Technology was first established in 1929 as the Iranian Institution for Higher Technical Education. Ultimately in 1978,It was aw...
    • 1-Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis
    • esis  (RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Qur'an) Brannon M. Wheeler This study draws on host of late antique and medieval sources to examine selected Muslim exegeses of Moses in the Qur'an. Using approaches from biblic...
    • Hajj ,The Spiritual Migration
    • Hajj occurs during the highly respected month of Zul-Hijjah. The land of Makkah (Mecca) is tranquil and peaceful. Instead of fear, hatred, and war, the desert is characterized by security and peace...
    • Hajj as a shift against racism:
    • one Muslim who saw the light of true Islam through his Hajj in April 1964. As a former member and speaker for the Nation of Islam, a black spiritual and nationalist movement, he believed that the white man was the devil and the black man superior....
    • Hajj Poem: Return of Pilgrims
    • The pilgrims returned with reverence. They were thankful to the Merciful God. On their way to Mecca from Arafat, They repeatedly said "Labbaika" with great respect.....
    • William Somerset Maugham
    • ham ( January 25 , 1874 - December 16 , 1965 ) William Somerset Maugham was a British writer of novels, short stories, and plays. He was orphaned as a child and raised by an uncle. He studied medicine and practiced as ...
    • Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
    • 44) (January 29, 1866-1944) Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, in the district of Nièvre. He studied literature, music, and philosophy, and in 1895 he published two doctoral theses:Les Origines du théâtre lyr...
    • José Mart
    • rtí ( January 28 , 1853 – May 19 , 1895 ) José Julian Martí y Perez was a leader of the Cuban independence movement as well as an esteemed poet , writer and journalist . He is considered by many to be...
    • Johann Gottlieb Fichte
    • te (5/19/1762- 1/27/1814) Johann Gottlieb Fichte has significant importance as one of the progenitors of German idealism and as a follower of Kant . Fichte believed that Kant was mistaken to argue for the exi...