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Recent Select Publications

Books

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi’s Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fi `ilm al-hay’a). Edition, Translation, Commentary and Introduction. 2 vols. Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Premodern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma (co-edited with S. P. Ragep and with the assistance of Steven J. Livesey). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Copernicus and His Islamic Predecessors: Some Historical Remarks,” Filozofski vestnik 25/2 (2004) 125–142.

“Ibn al-Haytham and Eudoxus: The Revival of Homocentric Modeling in Islam,” in Charles Burnett, Jan P. Hogendijk, Kim Plofker and Michio Yano (eds.), Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004. pp. 786-809.

“Kadizade Rumi,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004. vol. XII, p. 502.

“The Astronomical and Cosmological Works of Ibn Sina: Some Preliminary Remarks” (with S. Ragep), in Sciences, techniques et instruments dans le monde iranien (Xe–XIXe siècle), etudes réunies et présentées par N. Pourjavady et Ž. Vesel. Tehran, 2004. pp. 3–15.

“The Tadhkira by al-Tusi,” The Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (in Persian). Tehran: Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, 2002. vol. VI, pp. 790-793.

“Zuhal” (Saturn) and “Zuhara” (Venus), The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002. vol. XI, pp. 555-556.

“Tusi and Copernicus: The Earth’s Motion in Context,” Science in Context 14, nos. 1-2 (2001) 145-163.

“Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science,” Osiris 16 (2001) 49-71.

“The Persian Context of the Tusi Couple,” in N. Pourjavady and Ž. Vesel, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Philosophe et Savant du XIIIe Siècle. Tehran: Institut français de recherche en Iran/Presses universitaires d’Iran, 2000. pp. 113-130.

“Nasir al-Din al-Tusi,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. vol. X, pp. 750-752.

Other links: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/R/F.J.Ragep-1/index.htm