Al-Jahiz lived, during one of the most exciting times of intellectual history – the period of the transmission of Greek science to the Arabs and the development of Arabic prose literature -and was intimately involved in both. Not much is known about al-Jaḥiẓ’s early life, but his family was very poor. Born early in February...Read More

MOHA Research Center presents a video about Mohammed Ali. Details on the childhood years of Mohamed Ali are likewise clouded in obscurity due to an absense of contemporary sources. As a result numerous contradictory legends have arisen. He claimed that he was born in 1769, the year that Napoleon Bonaparte and Wellington were also born....Read More