Welcome to this new project!
| This project is run by historians of the intellectual history in Islamicate societies between the seventh and the nineteenth centuries. The reason for engaging here in a popular representation of our research is the ever growing amount of false information and evaluation of all fields of intellectual activities in Islamicate societies before 1900.
Glorification, exaggeration, misrepresentation of the relations between the sciences, philosophy and religion as well as simple factual errors dominate most of the websites as well as popular books and exhibitions.
But we also wish to reach out to other cultures, because we believe that they too are often misrepresented by amateurs, ideologues, and commercial agencies. Hence, we chose the general name Science, Religion, Culture for our project. We hope that many colleagues will contribute to any of these three themes for the cultures they study. |
Call for Papers
Forthcoming
Khaled El-Rouayheb, Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century. Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb, Cambridge University Press, September 2015.

- ISBN: 9781107042964
Liana Saif, The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
September 2015.
ISBN 9781137399465
The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy introduces Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories formulated mainly in The Great Introduction to the Judgements of the Stars by Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787-886), De radiis by Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (801-873), and the Picatrix by Maslama al-Qurtubi (d. 964). Liana Saif investigates their influence on early modern occult philosophy, particularly the works of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), and John Dee (1527-c. 1608). The Arabic theories of astral influences provided a naturalistic explanation of astral influences and magical efficacy based on Aristotelian notions of causality. In addition, this book explores how this causality was reconciled with astrological hermeneutics, Neoplatonic emanationism, and Platonic eschatology, thus demonstrating the complexity of early modern occult philosophy and its syncretism.
Ahmed Ragab, The Medieval Islamic Hospital. Medicine, Religion, and Charity, Cambridge University Press. September 2015.
ISBN 9781107109605

Completed Research Projects
Alexander Fidora, ICREA Research Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/latintohebrew/