George Saliba has been Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, USA since 1979. Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... NY redirects here. ...

George Saliba received a master of science degree in Semitic languages and a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a recipient of a number of awards and honors, including the History of Science Prize given by the Third World Academy of Science in 1993, and the History of Astronomy Prize in 1996 from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science. A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... 14th century BCE diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... Islamic science is science in the context of traditional religious ideas of Islam, including its ethics and philosophy. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

In his website he writes about himself: "I study the development of scientific ideas from late antiquity till early modern times, with a special focus on the various planetary theories that were developed within the Islamic civilization and the impact of such theories on early European astronomy." “Ancient” redirects here. ... The eight planets and three dwarf planets of the Solar System. ... ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant Astronomy is the science of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earths atmosphere (such as auroras and cosmic background radiation). ...

Saliba has been doing research about possible transfer of mathematical and astronomical knowledge from Islamic world to Europe during 15-16th centuries.

In a documentary Columbia Unbecoming he, together with some other Columbia professors, including Joseph Massad, was accused of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in their classes and stifling the dissenting opinions. Saliba rejected the accusation and published a rebuttal in Columbia Spectator (November 3, 2004) to that effect. ^[1] Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Columbia Daily Spectator is the daily newspaper, written by Columbia University undergraduates, servicing the university community and the neighborhood of Morningside Heights. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bibliography

• Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press, 2007
• "A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam", New York, University Press; (1994) ISBN 0-8147-7962-X (hardcover); (reissue edition: November 1995) ISBN 0-8147-8023-7 (paperback)
• (With Linda Komaroff, Catherine Hess) "The Arts of Fire : Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance", Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum (June 10, 2004), ISBN 0-89236-757-1 (hardcover)
• "The Crisis of the Abbasid Caliphate" (Tabari, Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk; annotated translation), State University of New York Press (November 1985) ISBN 0-87395-883-7 (Hardcover), ISBN 0-7914-0627-X (paperback)
• "The Astronomical Work of Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urdi (d. 1266): A Thirteenth Century Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy", Markaz dirasat al-Wahda al-'Arabiya, Beirut, 1990, 1995
• (With Sharon Gibbs) "Planispheric astrolabes from the National Museum of American History", Smithsonian Institution Press, (1984) ISBN 0-608-11955-5 (paperback)

Balamis 14th century Persian version of Universal History by al-Tabari Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari 838–923 (father of Jafar, named Muhammad, son of Jarir from the province of Tabaristan, Arabic الطبري), was an author from Persia, one of the earliest, most prominent and famous Persian... For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation). ...

References

1. ^ dailyprincetonian.com: "Columbia prof discusses Islamic science"

External link

• George Saliba's home page at columbia.edu