Date/Time
Date(s) - 7 Oct 2013
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Location
Rutgers University - Van Dyck Hall
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Nayhan Fancy, DePauw University
“Alternative Physiologies to Galen in the Post-Avicennian Islamic World”
Monday, October 7, 2013, 4:30 PM, Van Dyck Hall 301
Nahyan Fancy’s research interests are in the history of science and medicine in pre-1500 Islamicate societies. His first book, Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection (Routledge, 2013), examined the intersections of philosophy, theoretical medicine and theology in the works of Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288), Currently, he is working on the place of theoretical medicine and its teaching in Islamicate societies during the Mamluk period, particularly with regards to the fate of Ibn al-Nafis’s novel theories.
http://www.depauw.edu/academics/departments-programs/womens-studies/nahyan-fancy/