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The Sciences

The various kinds of sciences and the methods of instruction

The Science of Alchemy

Part 29

The Alchemy of Ibn Bishrun

Part 29b

The Alchemy of Ibn Bishrun

Part 29c

Alchemy is Sorcery

Part 29d

The corruption of philosophy

Part 30

The corruption of philosophy

Part 30b

Astrology is wrong, has weak achievements, harmful goal

Part 31

The worthlessness of astrology

Part 31b

The impossibility of alchemy and the harm it causes

Part 32

Why Alchemy is Wrong

Part 32b

The 7 Valid Purposes of Writing a literary composition

Part 33

The great number of scholarly works is an obstacle to attaining scholarship

Part 34

The Great Many Brief Handbooks On Scholarly Subjects Is Detrimental To Instruction

Part 35

The Right Attitude In Scientific Instruction And How To Give Such Instruction

Part 36

The study of the auxiliary sciences should not be prolonged

Part 37

The Instruction of Children

Part 38

Severity to students does them harm

Part 39

Scholars are least familiar with the ways of politics

Part 41

Most of the scholars in Islam have been Persians

Part 42

A person whose first language was not Arabic has a harder time acquiring the sciences

Part 43

The Sciences Concerned with the Arabic language

Part 44

The science of lexicography

Part 44b

The Science Of Rhetorical Figures

Part 44c

The Inimitability of the Qur'an

Part 44d