George Saliba
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George Saliba has been Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, USA since 1979.
George Saliba received a master of science degree in Semitic languages and a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a recipient of a number of awards and honors, including the History of Science Prize given by the Third World Academy of Science in 1993, and the History of Astronomy Prize in 1996 from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science.
In his website he writes about himself: "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."
Saliba has been doing research about transfer of mathematical and astronomical knowledge from Islamic world to Europe during 15-16th centuries.
In a documentary Columbia Unbecoming he, together with some other Columbia professors, was accused of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in their classes and stiffling the dissenting opinions.[dailyprincetonian.com: "Columbia prof discusses Islamic science"]
Bibliography
- A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam, New York University Press; (1994) ISBN 081477962X (hardcover); (reissue edition: November 1995) ISBN 0814780237 (paperback)
- (With Linda Komaroff, Catherine Hess) The Arts of Fire : Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance, Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum (June 10, 2004), ISBN 0892367571 (hardcover)
- The Crisis of the Abbasid Caliphate (Tabari, Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk; annotated translation), State University of New York Press (November 1985) ISBN 0873958837 (Hardcover), ISBN 079140627X (paperback)
- "The Astronomical Work of Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urdi (d. 1266): A Thirteenth Century Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy", Markaz dirasat al-Wahda al-'Arabiya, [[Beiru]t, 1990, 1995
- "Planispheric astrolabes from the National Museum of American History", Smithsonian Institution Press, (1984) ISBN 0608119555 (paperback)
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