Such an environment of curiosity and openness was supported caliphs, sultans, and viziers, most notably the Abbasids, but also to varying degrees the Umayyads and Seljuks, and later the Timurids ...

It is the first Indian text to be inducted in the Unesco World Register in 1997. These are Tamil Medical Manuscripts preserved at the Institute of Asian Studies has collected 564 copies of these ...