S.P. Ragep—Resume (1)

RESUMÉ

Name: Sally P. Ragep

Address: Institute of Islamic Studies McGill University Morrice Hall 3485 McTavish Street Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3A 1Y1

Contacts: +514-398-2918 (telephone); +514-398-6731 (fax); [email protected]

Education: Ph.D. candidate McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies/History M.Ed. May 1980 Boston University Educational Media & Technology B.S. June 1975 Emerson College Speech; Dramatic Arts

Other University Coursework: Summer 1996 University of Chicago Intensive Intermediate Arabic Summer 1974 Harvard University Middle East History Summer 1972 Univ. of Washington Summer Theatre Abroad (UK) 9/71–12/73 University of Michigan

Academic Positions: Senior Researcher, McGill University July 2006- Associate, University of Oklahoma, History of Science Dept & Religious Studies, 2004-6

Publications: Book Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Premodern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma (co-edited with F. J. Ragep and with the assistance of Steven J. Livesey). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. Articles “The Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI): Towards a Sociology of the Exact Sciences in Islam” (with F. Jamil Ragep). In A Shared Legacy: Islamic Science East and West. Homage to Professor J. M. Millàs Vallicrosa, eds. Emilia Calvo, Mercè Comes Roser Puig, and Monica Rius, pp. 15-21. Barcelona: University of Barcelona, 2008.

“al-Jaghmīnī.” In New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Noretta Koertge, vol. 4, pp. 20-22. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson Gale, 2008.

“al-Jaghmīnī.” In Biographical Encylopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey et al., 2 vols., p. 584. Springer, 2007.

“Ibn Sīnā.” In Biographical Encylopedia of Astronomers, ed.Thomas Hockey et al., 2 vols., pp. 570-571. Springer, 2007.

S.P. Ragep—Resume (2)

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

“Select Films on the Arab World.” In The Arab World and Arab-Americans: Understanding a Neglected Minority, ed. Sameer Y. Abraham and Nabeel Abraham, pp. 91-95. Detroit: Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, 1981.

Online publication: English translation (with the assistance of Prof. Faith Wallis), “Ernest Renan’s ‘Islam and Science”: A Lecture presented at La Sorbonne 29 March 1883,” 2nd ed. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, Copyright 2011 by Sally P. Ragep.

Publication (in progress): “Fifteenth-Century Astronomy in the Islamic World”: a chapter in forthcoming book Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Context of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century,” eds. Rivka Feldhay and F. J. Ragep. “Jaghmini’s Mulakhkhas and Tusi’s Tadkhira: Pedagogical Considerations”(Publishers: Written Heritage Research Institute, Tehran, Iran) [in press]

History of Science Experience:  Executive Board Member, Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI) Project  Member of the RASI (Rational Science in Islam) database project centered at McGill University which is an initiative for the study of philosophy and the mathematical sciences in Islam. http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/ In particular, I am actively involved in the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI) component of the project. http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/ismi.html  Member; Secretary, Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (IUHPS); term 2005–2009. The Commission has over 154 members from 30 countries. I developed and maintained the website in addition to producing the Commission Newsletter.  Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Dec. 2006–June 2007  2004–present: Managing Editor (with Moustafa Mawaldi and F. J. Ragep), Journal for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo, Syria. Vol. 14, ISSN: 0379-2927, published 2008.  Affiliate, The Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria (translating materials from Arabic into English, library work; including the Institute’s informational brochure [83 pages] and newsletter), 2003–2011.  2003–present: contributed articles to and assisting in the editing of astronomical  March 1998–2006: Editorial assistant to complete translation, edition and study of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Risālah-i Mu`īniyya and the Ḥall-i Mu`īniyya, two Persian astronomical treatises (primary authors: F. Jamil Ragep, University of Oklahoma, and Wheeler Thackston, Harvard University; to be published by Brill) [support from the National S.P. Ragep—Resume (3)

Science Foundation and a University of Oklahoma Research Council Award 1999–2002]; this involves collating over 9 Persian manuscripts.  1996–present: Compiling a survey, study and database of authors, works, and manuscripts related to Islamic scientific cosmology (hay’a)  1997–2005: Co-editor (with F. J. Ragep and Mercè Comes) of Islamic Science Newsletter for the Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies [included preparing bibliographies]  1988: Compiled information on instruments in database for Harvard University’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Recent Papers/Conference Presentations & Participations:  Future paper (accepted): "Situating Jaghmini: Scientific Activity during the later period of the Khwarizm Shahs," for the CHAMA and the Islamic Science Commission joint session/symposium entitled “Islamic Astronomy in its Cultural Context,” 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ICHST), Manchester (UK), July 22-28, 2013  Talk for McGill Digital Humanities: Dec. 13, 2012: "The Open Mind database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI)," (with Dirk Wintergruen, Robert Casties (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) and Jamil Ragep (McGill)  Winter 2012: Guest Lecturer for Prof. Malek Abisaab's class ISLA 355 (Modern History: Middle East) on the subject of Islamic science, and specifically the 19th-century dialogue between Ernest Renan and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.  Presented a paper entitled, "The RaSI Database: A Tool for Historical and Sociological Research," at The Eighth Islamic Manuscript Conference (TIMA), 8-11 July 2012, Cambridge, UK [All travel and lodging expenses were funded.]  Participant, workshop: "Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi Workshop," McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies, 11-12 June 2012 [1of 9 discussion leaders]  Presented a paper entitled, “Jaghmini’s Mulakhkhas and Tusi’s Tadkhira: Pedagogical Considerations,” at The Scientific and Philosophical Heritage of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, 23- 24 Feb. 2011, Tehran, Iran [article in press: Publishers: Written Heritage Research Institute]  Invited plenary lecture, “Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: Its Importance for the History of Science and Islamic Civilization,” at the international scientific conference entitled, “Koneurgench Turkmen State and Central Asia in the First Half of the XIII Century,” 1-3 December 2010, Dashoguz, Turkmenistan [over 500 attendees] http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2010/12/in-search-of-jaghmin/

 Presented a paper entitled, “Rational Sciences in Islam,” workshop entitled “Global Histories of Science: Exploring New Resources on the Web,” History of Science Annual Meeting, 4-7 November 2010, Montreal, CA [3 panelists]  Panel Chair: Rethinking the Emergence of Islamic Science, History of Science Annual Meeting, 4-7 November 2010, Montreal, CA [5 panelists]  Attended 2-day workshop entitled “Beyond the Abbasid Caliphate: Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13-15th c. Tabriz,” 1-2 Oct. 2010, Istanbul, Turkey S.P. Ragep—Resume (4)

 As part of the RaSI database project I attended a 2-day workshop in Berlin, Dec. 2009, worked 1-30 July at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin and also at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) 14-23 July. [All travel and lodging expenses were funded.]  “The Astronomical Commentary Tradition: Do Numbers Count?” Paper presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Meeting, in the panel entitled The Rational Sciences in Islam” (RaSI) Database: Introduction and Preliminary Findings, Nov. 23, 2009, Boston, MA.  Participant, workshop “Waqfiyyas and the Rational Sciences,” McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies, 15 March 2010, Montreal, CA  Presented a paper entitled, “Fifteenth-Century Astronomy in the Islamic World” in the workshop “Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century,” August 13-15, 2009 Montreal, CA [11 participants].  Participant in conferences on the Fifteenth-Century Background to Copernicus, held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, December 13-15, 2006 [10 participants] and August 6-8, 2007.  Advisor, Experts Meeting on the Establishment of a History of Arabic and Islamic Science; meeting of the International Advisory Committee on the History of Arabic and Islamic Science; co-sponsored by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, June 23-24, 2008, London, UK  Member ISMI panel at Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Dec. 2007, Patna, India  “Avicenna’s Appendix to the Almagest: Au Courant or Against the Tide?” To be presented (with F. J. Ragep) at “A Shared Legacy: Islamic Science East and West,” 11-14 April 2007, Barcelona, Spain  “The Importance of the Tradition of Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ for the History of Science and Islamic Civilization,” presented at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science, Beijing, China, 24–30 July 2005  “The Role of Databases for the Exact Sciences in Islam,” presented at The 1st International Conference on History of the Exact Sciences Along The Silk Road, Xian, China, 31 July–3 August 2005  al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ: Its Importance for the History of Science and Islamic Civilization, presented May 2004, Iran  “Towards a Sociology of the Exact Sciences in Islam: The Role of Databases” (with F. J. Ragep) presented at “La science dans les sociétés islamiques,” 14–16 April 2004, Rabat, Morocco  OU Facilitator (Center for Peace Studies, International Programs Center), conference on “Regional Cooperation for Water Management” [in the Middle East], 13–14 February 2004, Damascus, Syria  “The Astronomy of Ibn Sīnā” (with F. J. Ragep), presented at The Second International Conference on “The History of Science in the Iranian World,” 7–9 June 1998, Tehran, Iran (invited talk)  Participant in seminar on the study of the history of Islamic Science in the USA; held at Kyoto, Sangyo University, October 26, 1999 in Kyoto, Japan

S.P. Ragep—Resume (5)

Languages: English: native speaker; Arabic: good speaking, writing, reading and translating knowledge; French: good reading knowledge, some speaking and writing; German: some familiarity with reading and spoken; Persian and Turkish: some familiarity with written and spoken; Ability to read Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin scripts

Media experience (including instructional design & development related to history of science and the Middle East):  1990–present: Designed several posters and conference programs for Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Program, University of Oklahoma, History of Science Department  1989: Produced photographs of scientific instruments for Smithsonian Institute Publication  1984–93: Line drawings and photographs for book and articles by F. J. Ragep on the history of astronomy; projects funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation  1984–87: Copy work for lectures and scholarly publications for L. J. Daston  1981: Multimedia presentations on the Middle East for a teachers’ workshop under the auspices of Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, Detroit, Michigan  Commissioned to write a script for UNICEF for Egyptian Television; aired in 1978  1977–78: Screened and compiled list of films at the Arab League, Cairo, Egypt

Additional Information:  Taught (McGill, Winter 2011, Winter 2012): Science and Civilization in Islam (co- instructors Ihsan Fazlıoğlu; F. Jamil Ragep)  Word processing skills in English and Arabic; extensive knowledge of databases and HTML  5 Lectures on “Women in the Middle East”: (4) University of Oklahoma, Spring 2005; (1) University of Alberta, March 2006  Outreach Project: Photographs of Syria, Turkey and Iran (taken 2003–04)  Lived in Cairo, Egypt; Damascus, Syria; and Istanbul, Turkey; Berlin, Germany and traveled extensively through Western Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Japan, and China  High School Certification (Massachusetts and New York), Audiovisual Media Specialist; taught high school (English and Mathematics), 1979–90