Cultura

Reflections on the Evolution of Mediaeval Cairo in Light of Ibn Khaldoun’s Theories of Culture

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Tawfiq F. Abuhantash
Associate Professor of Architecture, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Abstract

The author's Master's thesis, which served as the study's basis, was utilized as the essential source. It is an attempt to understand a portion of the components that influenced the development of mediaeval Cairo and its formation drawing on Ibn Khaldun’s concepts of society and social change. It depends on the idea that the actual development of a city mirrors the social factors that support the verifiable cycle. As a social observer, Ibn Khaldun explored the social factors behind verifiable occasions. He developed a theory of history based on a cyclical pattern of social development that leads to the rise and decline of political institutions. Because of progress, the city is accepted to follow this inescapable developmental example. In this review, a few parts of Cairo (Al-Qahirah) will be inspected considering Ibn Khaldun's perspectives. The review is divided into two parts: the first gives an overall synopsis of the hypothesis and its understandings utilizing Ibn Khaldun's Introduction (Al Muqaddimah) and scholastic papers by different students of history and social researchers who have concentrated on Ibn Khaldun. The thought is applied in the second part to numerous components of Cairo's advancement and formation, as found in its arranging attributes and authentic structures. The primary history specialist of Egypt at that time, Al-Maqrizi, composed itemized manuscripts that will be utilized to sort out the authentic subtleties of the city during that time.

Keywords : Medieval Cairo, Ibn Khaldun, Al-Maqrizi, Civilization, Historical Buildings, Asabiyah, Egypt, Social Change, Science of Culture.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty