red ink on parchment drawing showing a half-moon shaped blade net to a cylindrical wick.

Image of a self-cutting lamp wick from The Book of Ingenious Devices 1210 CE Banū-Mūsā Ibn-Šākir, Kitāb al-Ḥiyal, Stabi Berlin Ms. or. quart. 739, p. 68v. http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000531E00000000

 
Reading Group (2025-)

Early Sciences in the Islamic World

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Contact: Anthony Quickel

The "Early Sciences in the Islamic World" Reading Group meets monthly to discuss primary sources and scholarship related to various relevant themes. Readings are chosen based on participants’ own research activities in order to illuminate methodological and theoretical issues raised in the group's ongoing discussions. Topics vary and address different aspects of the Islamic sciences broadly, across regions and time periods. In particular, the group emphasizes material culture and practices, as well as new approaches in the field. The reading group also invites scholars from outside the Institute to lead sessions on selected themes.

This reading group is open to the public. For venue information please contact Anthony Quickel.

 

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Schedule 2025–2026

2025

Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World MPIWG Room 265

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Authorship and Authority in Premodern Arabic Craft Recipes Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Academic Cultivating of Rasulid Era (13th–14th Centuries) Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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2026

Perceptions of and Reactions to Meteorological Anomalies in an Arabic Chronicle from the Ninth Century Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Field Walls and Terraces in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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The Sciences in the Mamluk Sultanate Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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The Enchanted Basin in Mamluk Cairo: Medicine and Magic Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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