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Elaheh Kheirandish http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kheirand/
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BOOKS - The Arabic Version of Book reviews - Sources for the History of Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic
World: an
Updated Critical Supplement to An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic
Science, vol. 3, on Mathematics: Cultural Studies and Research
Institute, FORTHCOMING - Early Arabic Optics: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Ahmad ibn Isa’s Optics, Brill: Text and Studies Series (extension of Dibner Institute “IOTA” project). - Pappus of - Eastern Astrolabes by David Pingree, one of the three
editors, general editor, Bruce Chandler: Historic Scientific Instruments of
the Adler Planetarium and IN PROGRESS - A Dialogue of Two Cities: Baghdad and Isfahan in the ‘Age of
Science’, A
historical treatment of science in Islamic lands, based on a medieval
‘dialogue’ between Baghdad and Isfahan, reconstructed from the standpoint of
scientific developments (under
consideration by publishers) -Science in the Islamic Middle Ages A
Source Reader, with a selection of scientific and historical sources with
English translations, Maps, Timelines, Glossaries and Indices (under
consideration by publishers) CHAPTERS - "The Mixed Mathematical Sciences of the Islamic Middle
Ages",
The Cambridge History of Science, 8 vols. eds. David C. Lindberg and Ronald
Numbers; vol. 2: The Middle Ages, eds. David C. Lindberg and Michael Shank,
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. JOURNALS Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184-1153 AH/800-1740 CE). Special Issue of Iranian Studies, Volume 41 Issue 4, 433, Routledge, September 2008 (co-edited with Najma al-Din Yousefi and Carol Bier) ARTICLES - “Science and ‘Mithal’: Demonstrations in Arabic and Persian
Scientific Traditions Sciences,
Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca.
184-1153 AH/800-1740 CE). Special Issue of Iranian Studies, Volume 41 Issue
4, 433, Routledge, September 2008 (co-edited with Najma al-Din Yousefi and
Carol Bier): 465-489 - "Mathematics", Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic
World,
ed. John Esposito, - "The Arabic 'Version' of Euclidean Optics:
Transformations as Linguistic Problems in Transmission", Tradition,
Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-modern
Science Held at the University of Oklahoma, eds. F. Jamil Ragep
and Sally P. Ragep with Steven Livesey, Leiden: Brill, 1996: 227-243. - "Optics in the Islamic World", Encyclopedia of the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Kluwer, 1997:
40-44. - "The 'Manazir' Tradition through Persian Sources",
Les
sciences dans le monde iranien, eds. Z. Vesel, H. Beikbaghban et B. Thierry
de Crussol des Epesse, Actes du Colloque tenu à l'Univrsité des Sciences
Humaines de Strasbourg (6-8 june 95), Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche
en Iran (IFRI), 1998: pp. 125-45. - "A Report on - "What 'Euclid Said' to His Arabic Readers: The Case of
the Optics", De
Diversis Artibus (tome 55: N.S. 18): Proceedings of the XXth International
Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997), edited by Gerard
Simon and Suzanne Debarbat, - "Optics: Highlights from Islamic Lands", The Different
Aspects of Islamic Culture, Volume Four: Science and Technology in
Islam, part I (UNESCO, 2001), pp. 337-357. - "The Many Aspects of Appearances: Arabic Optics to 950
A.D.", The
Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives, ed. Jan P. Hogendijk and
AbdelHamid Sabra, Proceedings of the conference: New Perspectives on Science
in Medieval Islam,
held at The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (6-8
November, 1998), Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. - “Organizing Scientific Knowledge”, Organizing
Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim
World, - “The Puzzle of Tusi’s Optical Works,” Les sciences dans
la monde iranien ( REVIEWS - C. A. Qadir, Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World
, Journal
of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press, Jan. 1992, vol. 3, no. 1:
107-109. - A. I. Sabra, The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, 2 vols., Warburg
Institute, 1989, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Nov. 1994,
vol. 1, no. 2: 188-194. |
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