George Saliba
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George Saliba | |
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Born | 1939 (age 84–85) |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | Historian of Astronomy, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science |
Awards | History of Science Prize (1993), History of Astronomy Prize (1996), Kluge Center of the Library of Congress Distinguished Scholar (2005-6) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Columbia University (1979-) |
Website | www |
George Saliba (Arabic: جورج صليبا) is an American historian who is
Early life and education
Saliba received a bachelors and master's degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut. After, he received a master of science degree in Semitic languages and a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.[2]
Career
Saliba has been at Columbia University since 1979. He studies 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. He uncovered pathways of transmission of Islamic astronomy to Renaissance Europe. The main thrust of his research has been the connections between Islamic astronomers and Copernicus.[3] His book Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance has been published in multiple languages including Arabic, English, and Turkish.[4]
Awards and honors
Saliba has won 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.[5][6] In 2005 he was named as a Senior Distinguished Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center.[6]
Columbia Unbecoming
Saliba was one of the professors named in the 2004
Bibliography
- Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press (April 1, 2007) ISBN 0-262-19557-7(hardcover, and in paperback as of 2011. The book has since been translated into Turkish, Arabic, Urdu and Bahasa (Indonesian)
- A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam, New York, University Press; (1994) ISBN 0-8147-8023-7(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 0-89236-757-1(hardcover)
- "The Crisis of the Abbasid Caliphate" (ISBN 0-7914-0627-X(paperback)
- "The Astronomical Work of Mu’ayyad al-Din al-’Urdi (died 1266): A Thirteenth Century Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy", Markaz dirasat al-Wahda al-'Arabiya, Beirut, 1990, 1995
- (With Sharon Gibbs) Planispheric astrolabes from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Press, (1984) ISBN 0-608-11955-5(paperback)
- "The Pebble That Became A Fist-Full Rock: On the Continued Importance of Edward Said's Orientalism". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- "The Ash'arites and the Science of the Stars" in Richard G. Hovannisian and George Sabagh (eds.), Religion and Culture in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 79-92.
References
- ^ "AUB Launches its Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy". American University of Beirut. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "George Saliba". Columbia University. September 28, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "An Interview with Professor George Saliba". Muslim Heritage Foundation. May 27, 2009. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance". MIT Press. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ Diane Greenberg. "George Saliba to Give a Talk at Brookhaven Lab on Science in Renaissance Europe, August 19". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
- ^ a b Helen Dalrymple. "George Saliba Named Senior Distinguished Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
- ^ a b "The `Silent Jews' speak out" by Shoshana Kordova Haaretz, February 8, 2005
- ^ Columbia Spectator(November 3, 2004)