Picture only if you insist. Are you sure?

George Saliba Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Columbia University 606 West 122^nd Str. Room 312 New York, NY 10027 Tel: (212) 854-4166 E-Mail: [email protected]

I study the development of scientific ideas from late antiquity till early modern times,
with a special focus on the various planetary theories that were developed within the Islamic civilization and the impact of such theories on early European astronomy.

My web accessible, and relatively recent research

[file in 5 sections], deals with some of the latest findings regarding the transmission of astronomical and mathematical ideas from the Islamic world to Renaissance Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. See publications below.

Representative Publications:

SAMPLE BOOKS AND OCCASIONAL PAPERS

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press, 2007.
Rethinking the Roots of Modern Science: Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in European Libraries, Occasional Paper, Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies, Georgetown University, 1999.
The Origin and Development of Arabic Scientific Thought, [Arabic], Balamand University, 1998.
A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam, New York University Press, 1994, paper, 1995.
The Astronomical Work of Mu'ayyadal-Din al-'Urdi (d. 1266):  A Thirteenth Century Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy, markaz dirasat al-Wahda al-'Arabiya, Beirut, 1990, 1995
From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honorof E. S.Kennedy, co-editor Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, NY, 1987.
The Crisis of The Abbasid Caliphate, an annotated translation of Tabari's caliphate of al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz (862 - 869 A.D.),  SUNY Press, 1985.
Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History, coauthor, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984.

Selected publication list (PDF FILE not always up to date)

[Click Here]