Conference Papers

  • Ahmed Tahir Nur, “Debating Disease: Plague and Circulation of Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman World”, International Conference Circulation of Knowledge in the Ottoman World: c. 1500-1900, 17-19 September 2026, CSIC, Madrid. [Link]
  • Ahmed Tahir Nur, “From Alexandria to Baghdad to Istanbul: Tracing an Influential Framing of Knowledge”, 18–19 May 2026, Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Aga Khan University) & The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
  • Ahmed Tahir Nur, “The Spanish Jewish Physician at the Ottoman Court: Curing the Plague is Possible!”, American Society for Premodern Asia, 9-12 April 2025, Boston, United States. [Link]
  • Dominique Sirgy, “An Encyclopedic Miscellany from Fourteenth-Century Shīrāz: Köprülü 1589 and the Transmission of a Hermetic Tradition Knowledge.” American Society for Premodern Asia; 9-12 April 2025, Boston, United States.
  • Dominique Sirgy, “Astral Causation in Safavid Encyclopediam.” 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting; 13-16 July 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Dominique Sirgy, “Mind Over Matter: Theorizing Mind Control in the First Safavid Century.” Celestial Crossroads: Encounters, Intersections and Influences; 27-29 April 2026, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Dominique Sirgy, “Political Sovereignty and Cosmic Power in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm.” The Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference; 5–8 August 2026, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, “Beyond patronage: poetry as part of the civilizing mission of Ottoman sovereignty”. International workshop on Ruler Poetry in the Early Modern Middle East, Orient-Institut, 05 December 2025, Istanbul.
  • Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, “The Transmission of Absolute Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman World”, International Conference Circulation of Knowledge in the Ottoman World: c. 1500-1900, 17-19 September 2026, CSIC, Madrid. [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ and Laura Tribuzio, “A Ruby Which Is Not a Ruby: Symbol, Substance, and Political Imagination in Timurid and Mughal Thought”, Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 10 November 2025, as part of Monday Majlis Online organized by István T Kristó-Nagy, [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ and Laura Tribuzio, “Timur, Ṣāḥib Qirān, and the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, Tashkent, 14 August 2025, at the 10th Biennial Convention of The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ and Laura Tribuzio, “Translating Wisdom. Revisiting the Mujmal al-Ḥikma and its Role in the Multilingual Dynamics of Medieval Eurasia”, Münster, 5 June 2025, at the Conference ‘Translation and Multilinguism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia’ organized by Philip Bockholt and Bruno De Nicola. [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, “Avicenna on the Occult: A Survey of his Classifications of the Sciences and their Impact over the Longue Durée”, Leuven, 16 October 2025, at the Conference ‘The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath’ organized by Amos Bertolacci and convened by Shahab Khademi and Marco Signori. [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, “On Metempsychosis, the Great Year and the Phoenix: A Journey through the Classical Tradition and Islam”, Paris, 3 October 2025, as part of the cycle of international conferences ‘Metempsychosis in Islam’ organized by Fârès Gillon, Wissam H. Halawi and M. Terrier. [Link]
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, “The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’s classification of the sciences: an overview of its diffusion and reception over the ages and cultures”, 18–19 May 2026, Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Aga Khan University) & The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Authority and Counsel in the Būstān al-ʿUqūl: Persian Reworkings of the Epistle on Animals”, 15–16 June 2026, Figures of Authority: Argumentative Strategies, Exemplary Motifs, and Narrative Patterns in the Political Advice Literature of the Premodern Islamic World, University of Tübingen.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Echoes of the Dānešnāme? Prophetic Knowledge between Avicenna and the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, Leuven, 15 October 2025, at the Conference ‘The Dānešnāme and Its (Structural) Aftermath’ organized by Amos Bertolacci and convened by Shahab Khademi and Marco Signori. [Link]
  • Laura Tribuzio, “From the Mother’s Ashes: ʿIlm al-Takwīn—The Science of Generation and the Secret Life of Matter in the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, 13–16 July 2026, Joint Meeting ESHS / HSS, University of Edinburgh.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Heavenly Signs and Intermediary Beings in the Persian Reception of the Brethren of Purity: Reading the Būstān al-ʿUqūl and the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, 27–29 April 2026, Celestial Crossroads: Encounters, Intersections and Influences, Sophia Centre (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) & Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Marks of Power, Traces of Knowledge: Ottoman Manuscripts of the Mujmal al-Ḥikma and the Brethren of Purity”, 18–19 May 2026, Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Aga Khan University) & The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Semen as Froth: Occult and Living Cosmologies of Political Power in the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, 10–12 April 2026,  Symposia Iranica V, Utrecht University.
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Semen as Froth: Occult and Living Cosmologies of Political Power in the Mujmal al-Ḥikma”, 5–8 August 2026, Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, Utrecht University.
  • Matt Melvin-Koushki, “Jazz Astro-Lettrist Imperialism: Iskandar Sultan’s Illuminated Horoscope (1411) as Hermetic World-Riddle,” Middle East Studies Association, 59th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2025) (organizer).
  • Matt Melvin-Koushki, “The Weirding Way: Islam as Platonism and Animism Makes “Objectivity” a Classist-Colonialist Yet Curiously Platonic Word of Power,” Method and Theory in Islamic Studies: Problematizing Objectivity, Inekas 5th Summer School (August 2025) (online).
  • Matteo Martelli,  “Alchemy in the Making: Ancient Practices, Theories and Experiments”, Annual Lecture, Brown University, Providence, 18 September 2025. [Link]
  • Matteo Martelli, “Robert Halleux et l’histoire de l’alchimie”, at the Journée d’hommage à Robert Halleux, Caphés, Paris, 23 September 2025. [Link]