Islam and Science
The “Islam and Science,” is a new speaker series co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Program in History & Philosophy of Science, Stanford’s History Department, and the Middle Eastern Studies Forum. Each talk spotlights cutting-edge research on how scientific knowledge was practiced, taught, debated, and exchanged across the medieval, early modern, and modern Islamic world, often through newly uncovered sources that challenge received narratives and reshape our understanding of science in Islamicate societies.
For further information, please contact the conference's graduate student coordinator: Fyza Parviz Jazra at fjazra [at] stanford.edu (fjazra[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Past Events
The period after the so-called “Golden Age of Islam” has been largely dismissed as a time of radical "decline," often blamed on the “dogmatism” of Islam and…
Nükhet Varlık's research traces the emergence and evolution of healthscaping efforts and their broader political implications in the context of Ottoman early…
Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century.
Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean.