Publications

Books

• Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection (New York: Routledge, 2013). (You may access the first chapter through Amazon) 

  • Reviewed in Turkish by Şeref Etker (2013) for Osmanli Bilimi Araştirmalari 14: 125–133 (click here to access)

  • Reviewed by Leigh Chipman (2014) for Der Islam 91: 195–198.

  • Reviewed by Housni A. Shehada (2014) for Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77: 384–386 (click here to access).

  • Reviewed by Abdessamad Belhaj (2014) for Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 25: 544–546 (click here to access).

  • Reviewed by Raphaela Veit (2014) for Isis 105: 632–633 (click here to access). 

  • Reviewed by Justin Stearns (2014) for Early Science and Medicine 19: 365–368 (click here to access).

  • Reviewed in German by Stephan Conermann (2014) for Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 14 (2014), no. 9 (click here to access). 

  • Reviewed by Emilie Savage-Smith (2015) for Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74: 390-392. (click here to access)

  • Reviewed by Dimitri Gutas (2017) for Nazariyat 4: 139–145. (click here to access) 

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Shifting Narratives of Postclassical Medicine," History of Science  61 (2023): 157–162.

• "Introduction to Roundtable Discussion: Current Debates and Emerging Trends in the History of Science in Premodern Islamicate Societies," (co-author Justin Stearns) History of Science 61 (2023): 124–134. 

• "The Science of Sleep in Medieval Arabic Medicine, Part 2: Sleep Theory and Practice after Ibn Sīnā," CHEST  163, 4 (2023): 916–920. (click here)

• "The Science of Sleep in Medieval Arabic Medicine, Part 1: Ibn Sīnā's Pneumatic Paradigm," CHEST  163, 3 (2023): 662–666. (click here)

• “Medical Commentaries,” in Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries, ed. Sonja Brentjes (New York: Routledge, 2023), 436–446.

• “Systems of Knowledge: Debating Organization and Changing Relationships,” (co-authors Sonja Brentjes & Kenan Tekin) in Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries, ed. Sonja Brentjes (New York: Routledge, 2023), 761–772. 

• "Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries Between the First and Second Pandemics," in Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond, eds Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlık (York: York Medieval Press, 2022), 35–66. 

• "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)" (with Monica H. Green), Medical History 65 (2021): 157–177. (click here) 

• “Verification and Utility in the Arabic Commentaries on the Canon of Medicine: Examples from the Works of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) and Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288),” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 75 (2020): 361–382  (pdf)

• "Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs," in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen, eds Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 263–278. (pdf)

• “Generation in Medieval Islamic Medicine” in Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, eds Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming and Lauren Kassell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 129–140. (pdf) 

• "Anatomy," in 1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation, ed. Peter Pormann (Manchester, UK: FSTC, 2018), 42–51. (pdf)

• "Medicine and Religious Scholarship," in 1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation, ed. Peter Pormann (Manchester, UK: FSTC, 2018), 176–185. (pdf)

• "Post-Avicennan Physics in the Medical Commentaries of the Mamluk Period," Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 6 (2018): 55–81. (pdf) 

• “Womb Heat versus Sperm Heat: Hippocrates against Galen and Ibn Sīnā in Ibn al-Nafīs's Commentaries,” Oriens 45 (2017): 150–175. (pdf)

• “Medical Commentaries: A Preliminary Examination of Ibn al-Nafīs’s Shurūḥ, the Mūjaz and Commentaries on the Mūjaz,” Oriens 41 (2013): 525–545. (pdf)

• “The Virtuous Son of the Rational: A Traditionalist’s Response to the Falāsifa,” in Avicenna and His Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy, ed. Y. Tzvi Langermann (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2009), 219–247. (pdf)

• “Examining the Rate of Renaturation for Different Types of DNA” (with Andrew Mehl), Journal of Chemical Education, 76:5 (1999), 646–648.

Edited Special Issues

• (co-editor Justin Stearns), "Roundtable Discussion: Current Debates and Emerging Trends in the History of Science in Premodern Islamicate Societies," History of Science 61 (2023): 123–178. 

Essay Reviews

• The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity, by Ahmed Ragab, Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 3 (1), 2016: 109–118 (Turkish pdf), 137–146 (English pdf). 

Encyclopedia articles

• Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., ed. Kate Fleet, et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2021), s.v. “Ibn al-Nafīs.” (link)

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, ed. Ibrahim Kalin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), s.v. “Ibn al-Nafīs,” 347–349.

Book Reviews

1. Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus, by Aileen Das, Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 2.2 (2021): 205–212. (pdf) 

2. Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam, by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann, eds., Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141 (2021): 224–226. (pdf) 

3. Galeni, In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I--III/Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics: Book I, Parts I--III, Edition of the Arabic Version with English Translation and Notes, by Uwe Vagelpohl, ed. and trans., The Medieval Review, 16.09.32, http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22604/28525.

4. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950, by Marwa Elshakry, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 47 (2015): 180–182. (pdf) 

5. Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean, by Justin K. Stearns, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46 (2014): 437–439. (pdf)  

6. In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization, vols. 1 & 2, by David A. King, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 73 (2014): 169–171. (pdf)

7. The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance, by Jim al-Khalili, History: Reviews of New Books, 40 (2012): 60–61.

8. Images of Islamic Science: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Iranian World, vol. 1, eds. Z. Vesel, S. Tourkin and Y. Porter, co-ordinator A. Beschaouch, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, 102 (2011): 766–768.

9. In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century, ed. by Peter Adamson, Notre Dame Philosophical Review: An Electronic Journal, October 12, 2011, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/26914-in-the-age-of-averroes-arabic-philosophy-in-the-sixth-twelfth-century/.

10. Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī, by Robert Morrison, Journal of Islamic Studies, 21 (2010): 421–424.

11. The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection, Paperback ed., by Jane Smith and Yvonne Haddad, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 69 (2010): 150–151.

12. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, 2nd ed., by Toby Huff, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 48 (2008): 175–177.

13. Islamic Humanism, by Lenn E. Goodman, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 66 (2007): 151–153.

14. The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives, ed. Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 38 (2004): 84–86.

15. The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science, by Osman Bakar, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 37 (2003): 129–131.

16. Ibn al-Jazzār on Fevers: A Critical Edition of Zād al-Musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir (Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary), tr. and ed. Gerrit Bos, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35 (2001): 91–92.

17. History Testifies to the Infallibility of the Qur'an: Early History of the Children of Israel, by Louay Fatoohi and Shetha al-Dargazelli, Islamic Studies, 39 (2000): 709–714. [Published in Malay as: "Kata Pengantar," in Sejarah Bangsa Israel dalam Bibel dan al-Quran: Sebuah Penilitian Islamic Archaeology, by Louay Fatoohi and Shetha al-Dargazelli, 11–20 (Malaysia: Penerbit Mizania, 2007)].

18. From Facts to Values: Certainty, Order, Balance and Their Universal Implications, by Mehran Banaei and Nadeem Haque, Islamic Studies, 39 (2000): 717–723.