Welcome to my user page! I spend some of my time on wikipedia because I love to share what I learn and what I know and I don't get wikistressed because I'm a WikiSloth! Outside of wikipedia, I am a Biochemistry graduate and masters student in Oncology at the University of Oxford. I currently reside in the UK.
I enjoy the outdoors, Islamic culture and the sciences (as well as delicious halal food!). I am a strong advocate for Islamic cultural conservationism and the upholding of traditional values. I find great pleasure in reading historical accounts of civilisations gone by and drawing relevant lessons. I am also fond of studying classical Islamic texts in Jurisprudence and Aqeedah. I love to travel and learn about all the gifts of life. One of my goals on wikipedia is to uphold the values of Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘ah - so you may see me editing some articles relating to Islam or significant Muslim scientists and physicians... :). On the whole I generally tend to edit articles when I feel I want to, usually sticking around the more relevant ones to my interests. I have an interest in the applications of Biochemistry in Medicine and Medical research.
I have conducted a wide variety of research from Tissue Engineering to gene therapy to oncological imaging techniques. My institutions of research include the Magdi Yacoub Institute, the UCL Royal Free Medical school and the University of Oxford.
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary. [...] To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation, but this is a narrow view.
Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , Routledge, 2004, p.372
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.
Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos, H.G. Bohn, (1860).
Contacts with the Mohammedans in Spain, and to a lesser extent in Sicily, made the West aware of Aristotle; also of Arabic numerals, algebra, and chemistry. It was this contact that began the revival of learning in the eleventh century, leading to the Scholastic philosophy. It was later, from the thirteenth century onward, that the study of the Greek enabled men to go direct to the works of Plato and Aristotle and other Greeks writers of antiquity. But if the Arabs had not preserved the tradition, the men of the Renaissance might not have suspected how much was to be gained by the revival of classical learning.
Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , Routledge, 2004, p.268
