George Saliba

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George Saliba (born December 9, 1939 in Schrīn (English Chrine ; in today's Lebanonberg Governorate ), Lebanon ) is an American Arabist and Islamic scholar .

life and work

Saliba studied at the American University of Beirut and earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1963 and a Master of Arts in 1965. He continued his studies at the University of California at Berkeley , where he earned a Master of Science degree in Semitic studies, and finally received a doctorate in Islamic studies.

Since 1979 he has worked in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University , New York , most recently as Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Saliba placed the transmission of mathematical and astronomical ideas from the Islamic world to Europe in the center of his work in the 15th and 16th centuries. A special field of work is the reception of Greek in Arabic natural science and astronomy .

Awards

Saliba received the History of Science Prize from the Third World Academy of Science in 1993 and the History of Astronomy Prize from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science in 1996. He was elected a Distinguished Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress (2005-2006) and a Distinguished Carnegie Scholar (2009-2010).

Anti-Semitic remarks

Saliba emerged in 2004 with anti-Semitic remarks to Columbia University students who complained to him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. MIT Press 2007, ISBN 0-262-19557-7 (hardcover, and in paperback as of 2011). - Translations into Turkish, Arabic and Bahasa (Indonesian)
  • A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam. New York, University Press 1994, ISBN 0-8147-7962-X (hardcover), (reissue edition 1995), 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 2004, ISBN 0-89236-757-1 (hardcover)
  • The Crisis of the Abbasid Caliphate (Tabari, Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk ; annotated translation). State University of New York Press, 1985, ISBN 0-87395-883-7 (hardcover), 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 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.
  • The Pebble That Became A Fist-Full Rock: On the Continued Importance of Edward Said's Orientalism. (on-line)
  • Ibn Sīnā and Abū ʿUbayd al-Jūzjānī: The Problem of the Ptolemaic Equant. In: Journal for the History of Arabic Science. Volume 4, 1980, pp. 376-403.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shoshana Kordova: The Silent Jews' Speak Out , in: Haaretz Feb 08, 2005, (online) .
  2. ↑ George Saliba: Rebutting a "Misguided Political Project" , in: Columbia Spectator, November 3, 2004, (online)
personal data
SURNAME Saliba, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Arabist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chrin , Lebanon