The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics: Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al-manazir - Click to enlarge

 

Elaheh Kheirandish

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BOOKS

- The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics: Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al-manazir Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary (revised dissertation), 2 volumes, Springer-Verlag: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, no. 16, 1999.

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- 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, Tehran, 1991, submitted to the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. 


- Eastern Astrolabes by David Pingree, editor, general editor, Bruce Chandler:
Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, volume II. 2009.


IN PROGRESS

- 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 Alexandria’s Introduction to Mechanics: The Greco-Arabic Tradition of Book 8 of the Mathematical Collection: Springer-Verlag: "Sources in the History of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (extension of collaborative work on the “Archimedes Project”)

A ‘Dialogue’ of Two Cities: Baghdad to Isfahan in an Age of Science (ca. 750-1750)

A historical treatment of science in Islamic lands, based on a medieval ‘dialogue’ between Baghdad and Isfahan, reconstructed from the standpoint of scientific developments.


EDITED VOLUMES


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)


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.


ARTICLES


- "Mathematics",
Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World, ed. John Esposito, Oxford University Press, 1995, 3: 65-68.


- "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 Iran's 'Jewel' Codices of Tusi's Kutub al-Mutawasitat", Nasir al-Din al-Tusi : philosophe et savant de x111e siecle, etudes par N. Pourjavady et Ziva Vesel, Tehran: Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran (IFRI), 2000.
 

- "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, Belgium: Breplos, 2001: 17-28.
 

- "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, 2003.

 

- “Organizing Scientific Knowledge”, Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim World, Agha Khan University (Conference  proceedings: London, Fall 2003, ed. Gerhard Endress, Leiden; Brill, 2006: 135-154.

 

- “The Puzzle of Tusi’s Optical Works,” Les sciences dans la monde iranien (Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI), eds. N. Pourjavady et. Z. Vesel, conference proceedings (1998), 2004: 197-213.


- “Science and ‘Mithal’: Demonstrations in Arabic and Persian Scientific TraditionsSciences, 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.

 “Footprints of ‘Experiment’ in Early Arabic Optics”, in Early Science and Medicine, 2009, 14, no. 1-3; Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch, Early Science and Medicine, 14 (2009): 79-104.


“Optics, The science of “aspects” or “appearances”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, A Comprehensive Research Tool Dedicated to the study of Iranian Civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent, http://www.iranica.com, (2010).


“Optics, Transmission of”, Mapping the Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 300-1550: An Encyclopedia of Perspectives in Research, Brill, forthcoming.
 


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.


J. L. Berggren, Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, New York: Springer New-Verlag, 1986” Review of Review in Persian, Nashr-e Rīyāzī: A Mathematical Journal of Iran University Press, 1995, 7, 1: 53-55.


David E.P. Jackson, “Scholarship in Abbasid Baghdad with Special Reference to Greek Mechanics in Arabic,” Quaderni di Studi Arabi (1987-8): Review title: “The ‘Fluctuating Fortunes of Scholarship”: A Very Late Review Occasioned by a Fallen Book, Early Science and Medicine, Volume 11, No. 2, 2006: 207-222(16), Brill Academic Publishers.


 "The Arabic 'Version' of Euclidean Optics: Transformations as Linguistic Problems in Transmission", 1996
"Optics: Highlights from Islamic Lands", 2001. "The Many Aspects of Appearances: Arabic Optics to 950 A.D", 2003
“The ‘Fluctuating Fortunes of Scholarship”: A Very Late Review Occasioned by a Fallen Book (Review), 2006 Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184-1153 AH/800-1740 CE), co-editor, 2008  “Footprints of ‘Experiment’ in Early Arabic Optics”, 2009

 

 


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