Bibliotheca Alexandrina presents online lectures on Arab heritage

CAIRO – 16 February 2021: The Manuscripts Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is presenting an online lecture entitled “The Scientific Approach in the Arab-Islamic Civilization” given by Head of the Academic Studies Department of the library's Manuscript Center, Hussein Soliman, on February 17 at 11 a.m.

The lecture reviews with the origins of the scientific method used by the Muslim Arabs in the Greek civilization, and how the Greeks were affected by approaches from ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Chaldean civilizations, which led them to adopt reason in looking at existence and nature.

This lecture comes as part of a series of lectures presented by the Manuscripts Center entitled: “On the Arab Islamic Heritage”. The series aims to introduce the different fields, in which Arabs and Muslims have excelled in the Arab Islamic civilization.

The lecture "The Scientific Approach in the Arab-Islamic Civilization" is the third in this series of lectures.