User:Syncategoremata/Unreliable sources

Articles
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 * Contains the immortal claim that, "By university we mean the degree-granting institution that we find in Europe and America from the 12th century and which was introduced to the rest of the world from the 17th century." (p. 123), which puts the entire article into the joke category as far as I'm concerned.

Books
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 * This book does not seem to give any sources and at least the material on al-Jahiz and evolution (on p.43) appears to be based on Wikipedia, as does much of the other material in that area of the book. The rest of the book may be entirely fine.
 * See this google search for current uses on Wikipedia.

— Research Committee of Strasburg University, Imam Jafar Ibn Muhammad As-Sadiq A.S. The Great Muslim Scientist and Philosopher, translated by Kaukab Ali Mirza, 2000. Willowdale Ont. ISBN 0969949014.
 * See this talk page archive for some discussion of this source.
 * See this Google search for current uses on Wikipedia.

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 * A high school maths text book being used as a source on a history of science page.
 * See this Google search for current uses on Wikipedia.

Middle school books
The following book was being used as a reference at Age of the Earth and : According to their website the book is aimed at children in grades 5–8 (i.e. 11 to 14 year olds)

Another such book, used, was: Again, a book in the same series and aimed at children in grades 5–8.

This would be true of all the publisher's other books in the Great Muslim Philosophers and Scientists of the Middle Ages series.

High school books
More children's books from Rosen Publishing being used as references : This series is aimed at high school children, grades 9–12 (14 to 18 years olds).

MuslimHeritage.com
— www.FSTC.co.uk & www.muslimheritage.com

These are not reliable: see Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 18 — 3:15 pm, 15 August 2008 (UTC).

As an example, consider their paper: which contains the claim that: "Al-Khazini most particularly draws attention to the Greeks' failure to differentiate clearly between force, mass and weight (p. 5)"

which cites the book: but on checking that source, we find a rather different claim: "al-Khāzinī repeats the vagueness of the Greeks in failing to distinguish clearly between force, mass and weight. (p. 61)"

See also my user page User:Syncategoremata/al-Majriti and the principle of the conservation of mass for an example of an uncritical use of a bad source.