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Conference on
Islam and Science
27-29 August 2001
List of Participants & Topics
(Selected articles
and conference abstracts
in BRIIFS
vol.4, no. 1)
1- Professor Ahmad Dallal
Stanford University,
USA
Topic: The Adjustment of Science
2- Professor Alnoor Dhanani
Harvard University,
USA
Topic: Problems in Eleventh Century Kalam Physics
3- Dr. Anne Davenport
Harvard University,
USA
Topic: Mneme Theou: Science as Dhikr in Descartes, Faraday,
and Ibn al-Haytham
4- Dr. Antoine Zahlan
London,
UK
Topic: Science and Technology in the Islamic World
5- Professor Bennacer El Bouazzati
Muhammad V University, Morocco
Topic: The Continuum of Knowledge and Belief
6- Professor Charles Burnett
University of London,
UK
Topic: The Question of Religion in the Translation of Arabic
Scientific Works into Latin in the Twelfth Century
7- Professor Dimitri Gutas
Yale University,
USA
Topic: The Social Contexts of the Sciences in the Medieval
Islamic World
8- Professor Elaheh Kheirandish
Harvard University,
USA
Topic: The Alexandrian Optical Traditions in Arabic and
the "IOTA" (Index of Terms in Arabic) Project
9- Professor George Saliba
Columbia University,
USA
Topic: The Social Context of Islamic Astronomy
10- Professor Hisham Ghassib
Princess Sumaya University College for Technology,
Jordan
Topic: Can Religious Metaphysics Coexist with the Scientific
Method?
11- Professor Kamel Ajlouni
Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology,
Jordan
Topic: Values, Qualifications, Ethics and Legal Standards in
Arabic (Islamic) Medicine
12- Dr. Lawrence Conrad
University of Hamburg,
Germany
Topic: Commentary Culture and the Shaping of Academic
Culture in Medieval Islam
13- Professor Mohammad Abattouy
Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin,
Germany
Topic: The Arabic Tradition of 'Ilm al-Athqal wa'l-Mawazin
(Science of Weights and Balances): A Report on an Ongoing Research Project
14- Professor Ramazan Sesen
The Research Center for Islamic
History
Art and
Culture, Turkey.
Topic: The Ottoman's Approach to Science
15- Professor Richard Lorch
Institute for the History of Science,
Germany
Topic: Astronomical Instruments in the Islamic Middle Ages
16- Professor Robert G. Morrison
Whitman
College, WA, USA
Topic: Astronomy and Tafsir
17- Professor Sami Hamarneh
Retired Professor, History of
Medicine
Washington D.C.,
USA
Topic: Al-Ya'qubi's "Universal History," and Al-Biruni's
"Al-Jamahir"
18- Dr. Sonia Brentjes
Institute for the History of
Science
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University,
Germany
Topic: Welcomed into the Maratib al-'Ulum Literature, but Banned
from the Madaris? On the Respectability, Meaning, and Professional Status of al-'Ulum al-'Aqliyya between 1100 and 1700 (mainly in Egypt
and Syria)
19- Professor Syed Nomanul Haq
Rutgers University,
USA
Topic: The Corpus Jabirianum as a Religious Document
20- HRH Princess Wijdan Ali, Ph.D
Vice
President, Jordan Institute of Diplomacy
Topic: Building Technology in the Umayyad Period as Shown in
the Murals of Qusair Amra
21- Professor Edward Kennedy
Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics, American University of Beirut
Topic: Al-Battani's Astrological Determination of the Date of the Prohpet's
Birth.
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