“What’s in a School? Marāgha and its Historiographical
Implications” (with F. J. Ragep). Conference “Marāgha and its
Scholars: the Intellectual Culture of Medieval Marāgha, ca
1250-1550,” Istanbul, 6 8 Dec. 2013
“The Other Transmission, or How Did Muslims Manage to Transfer Astronomical Knowledge over Fifty Generations?” (with F. J. Ragep). Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame Univ., 12-16 June 2013
“Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: Its Importance for the History
of Science and Islamic Civilization,” invited plenary lecture,
Conference “Koneurgench Turkmen State and Central Asia in the
First Half of the XIII Century,” 1-3 Dec. 2010, Dashoguz,
Turkmenistan https://reporter.mcgill.ca/in-search-of-jaghmin/
PRESENTATIONS & PARTICIPATIONS
“Sizes, Distances, and Order: Celestial Reckoning in Late Medieval Islam,” paper presented at the Copernicus and Astronomy: Continuity, Reform, and Dissemination Conference at the World Copernican Congress, Toruń, Poland, Sept. 2023
“Shīrāzī’s Attitude Toward Philosophy: Some Preliminary Observations” (with F. Jamil Ragep), paper presented at the International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, organized by Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Divinity and Istanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Faculty of Literature, Turkey 13-14 Oct. 2021 (virtual)
“Islamic Scientific Manuscripts: Premodern Interweaving and Modern Unraveling,” paper presented at the 12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on “Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Hooking Up,” Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the Univ. of Pennsylvania, 21-23 Nov. 2019
“Editing Islamic Scientific Manuscripts: Challenges and Specificities” (with F. Jamil Ragep), paper presented at the workshop “Islamic Paleography & Codicology,” McGill Univ., Montreal, 10-14 Sept. 2018
“Science Teaching in the Pre-Modern World: An Empirical Approach,” paper presented at the workshop “Science Teaching in Pre-Modern Societies,” McGill Univ, Montreal, 24-26 May 2018
“Two Scientific Textbook in Islam that (Nevertheless) Persisted,” paper presented at “The 2018 Morris W. Offit Symposium on Muslims, Christians, and Jews around the Mediterranean,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 9 March 2018
“Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ and its Extensive Commentary Tradition,” paper presented at the “International Symposium on Science Teaching in Transition During the 18th-19th Century Islamic World, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-15 Dec. 2017. Co-sponsored by Medeniyet University and the McGill Centre for Islam and Science.
“An Historical Overview of Science Education in the Islamic World,” paper presented at the workshop “Science Education in the Islamic World,” Hamid bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, 9-10 Dec. 2017
“Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ and its Extensive Commentary Tradition: Past Teaching of Theoretical Astronomy within Islamic Societies,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in the panel entitled “Islamic Science in Theory, Teaching, and Practice,” Toronto, ON, 9-12 Nov. 2017
“The Teaching of Islamic Science in Premodern Islam,” colloquium talk, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 31 Oct. 2017
“Science Textbooks from the Later Period of the Khwārizm Shāhs,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in the panel entitled “Construction of Scientific Knowledge,” Boston, MA, 17-20 Nov. 2016
“Situating Jaghmīnī’s Qanuncha: A Prequel for Exploring Its Influence in South Asia,” paper presented at the workshop on “Scientific and Rationalist Traditions in Muslim India,” Univ. of California, Berkeley, 22 Oct. 2016
“From Squiggles to Events: Making Manuscripts Confess their Secrets” (with F. J. Ragep), invited talk, McGill Digital Humanities, 13 April 2016
“Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy,” invited paper at a workshop held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York, 15 March 2016
“The Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: Status of the Project,” presentation at the workshop: “Working with ISMI,” Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, 29 Feb. 2016
“An Historical Overview of Critical Issues in Science Teaching in Islam,” paper presentation at the workshop “Science Teaching in Contemporary Islamic Societies,” McGill University, 24 Oct. 2015
“Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ & Islamic Scientific Pedagogy,” invited lecture, Univ. of California Berkeley, 19 March 2015
“The Teaching of Theoretical Astronomy in Ottoman Lands,” paper presentation at the “International Conference of Ottoman Scholarship from Sahn-ı Seman to Darülfünun: Scholars, Institutions and Intellectual Products I: From the Conquest of Istanbul to the Establishment of the Süleymaniye Medreses,” Istanbul University, Faculty of Theology, 19-21 Dec. 2014
“The Teaching of Theoretical Astronomy in Premodern Islam,” paper presentation at “Disciples and Masters: 39th Kölner Mediavistentagung,” an international colloquium at the Thomas-Institute, University of Cologne, Germany, 9-12 Sept. 2014
“The Role of Databases for the Exact Sciences in Islam,” paper
presented at The 1st International Conference on History of the
Exact Sciences Along the Silk Road, Xian, China, 31 July-3 Aug.
2005