Emilie Savage-Smith

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Emilie Savage-Smith FBA (born 20 August 1941) is an American-British historian of science known for her work on science in the medieval Islamic world and medicine in the medieval Islamic world.[1]

Education and career

Savage-Smith was born on 20 August 1941, in the US, and became a

critical edition of book 16 of Galen's De usu partium corporis humani, including a translation from the Arabic edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq.[3]

She is retired as Professor of the History of Islamic Science at the

Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford she was a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles
, in the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and in the Medical History Division of the Department of Anatomy.

Books

Savage-Smith is the author or coauthor of:[2]

  • Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo (with Yossef Rapoport, University of Chicago Press, 2018)[5]
  • Medieval Islamic Medicine (with Peter E. Pormann, Edinburgh University Press, 2007)[6]
  • Medieval Views of the Cosmos (with Evelyn Edson, Bodleian Library, 2004)[7]
  • Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction, and Use (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985)[8]
  • Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device (with M. B. Smith, Undena Press, 1980)[9]

Additionally, she has contributed as an editor or translator to multiple other books including critical editions of works from the medieval Islamic world, edited volumes, and catalogues of collections.[2]

Recognition

Savage-Smith was named a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.[1] She became a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2020.[2]

In 2014, DePauw University gave her an honorary doctorate.[2][10] In 2016, the Scientific Instrument Society chose Savage-Smith as their Gerard Turner Memorial Lecturer and gave her the Turner Medal.[2][11] A workshop in honour of her career and contributions to the history of Islamic science, Health, Magic and Stars: Workshop on the history of Islamic science, was held at Oxford in 2019.[12]

Her book Medieval Islamic Medicine was one of three 2008 winners of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c Professor Emilie Savage-Smith FBA, British Academy, retrieved 2021-02-04
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae, University of Oxford, retrieved 2021-02-04
  3. ^ WorldCat catalog entry for Galen on Nerves, Veins and Arteries, retrieved 2021-02-04
  4. ^ About the Society, Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science, retrieved 2021-02-04
  5. ^ Reviews of Lost Maps of the Caliphs:
  6. ^ Reviews of Medieval Islamic Medicine:
  7. ^ Reviews of Medieval Views of the Cosmos:
  8. ^ Reviews of Islamicate Celestial Globes:
  9. ^ Reviews of Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device:
  10. ^ 506 receive DePauw degrees at university's 175th commencement, DePauw University, 18 May 2014, retrieved 2021-02-04
  11. ^ Annual invitation (medal) meetings, Scientific Instrument Society, retrieved 2021-02-04
  12. H-net
    , retrieved 2021-02-04
  13. ^ "Pre-2010", British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize, retrieved 2021-02-04

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