Histoire des sciences islamiques

Health, Magic and Stars: Workshop on the history of Islamic science in Honour of Emilie Savage-Smith

Workshop

St Cross, Oxford, 29 March 2019


Participants

Silke Ackermann, Cristina Álvarez-Millán, Charles Burnett, Anna Caiozzo, Catherine Delano-Smith, Evelyn Edson, Nahyan Fancy, Lesley Forbes, Geert Jan van Gelder, Monica Green, Peregrine Horden, Jeremy Johns, Maja Kominko, Francesca Leoni, Daniel Nicolae, Peter Pormann, Venetia Porter, Yossef Rapoport, Ignacio Sánchez, Simon Swain, Selma Tibi, Uwe Vagelpohl, Kathy van Vliet



9:30-10:00 Reception and Greetings


Magic and Art

10:00-10:30 Francesca Leoni, “Rolled up Blessings: Printed Islamic Talismans”

10:30-11:00 Venetia Porter, “The use of magical symbolism in the work of Middle Eastern artists”

11:00-11:30 Anna Caiozzo, “From the Magician King to the Learned Sovereign, Occult Sciences and Princely Imagery in the Illustrated Copies of Firdawsi's Shah-nameh”


Coffee break 11:30–12:00

Transmission of Medical Knowledge

12:00-12:30 Monica Green, “Medicine as a One-Way Street: The Transference of Islamic Medicine to Latin Europe”

12:30-13:00 Charles Burnett, “The Question of Genre in Greek, Arabic and Latin Medical Texts”


Lunch 13:00-14:30


Medical Commentaries

14:30-15:00 Daniel Nicolae, “Ibn Jumayʿ’s Commentary on the Canon of Medicine: How to Busy Oneself with the Art of Medicine”

15:00-15:30 Peter E. Pormann, “Ibn al-Nafīs’ Earlier Commentary on the Aphorisms (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Pococke 294)”

15:30-16:00 Nahyan Fancy, “The Educational Landscape of Post-Classical Physicians: What can be Gleaned from Arabic Commentaries on the Canon of Medicine and Epitome?”


Coffee break 16:00-16:30


Collaborative Scholarship

16:30-17:00 Evelyn Edson, “Collaboration, Collusion, Cooperation: Working with Emilie Savage-Smith”

17:00–17:30 Closing remarks: Yossef Rapoport, Ignacio Sánchez, Simon Swain