Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Mar 2015
4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Jones
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Princeton’s Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies
Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University and Rutgers University)
“Did Renaissance Physicians Know the Work of Ibn al-Nafis?: Re-examining an Old Debate in Light of New Work on the Arabic Medical Commentaries”
March 9, 2015
4:30 pm, Jones 202
Nahyan Fancy is an Associate Professor of Middle East/Comparative History at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA. His research interests are in pre-1500 science, medicine, and intellectual history. His book, Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt, examines the intersections of philosophy, theology and medical physiology in the works of Ibn al-Nafis, a 13th century physician-jurist who first posited the pulmonary transit of blood. His new project examines the evolution of medical commentaries in post-1250 Islamicate societies, with an eye towards learning more about the specific trajectory of theoretical medicine in Islamicate societies, and the networks of exchange that gave rise to the appropriation of Islamicate trajectories by Latin Europe during the Renaissance.
Co-sponsored with the Program in the History of
Science and the Program in Medieval Studies