Publications

  • Ahmed Tahir Nur, “Ottoman Epistemology: Taşköprizade’s (d. 968/1561) Miftāḥ al-sa‘āda and the Perspectival Turn in the Classifications of the Sciences”, PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2025.
  • Dominique Sirgy, “Post-Classical Reflections on the Bodily Afterlife: Confluences and Divergences in the Writings of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.” Oriens 53, no. 3-4 (2025): 202-239.
  • Dominique Sirgy, “The Hermetic Rebuke of the Soul in Premodern Arabic and Persian Manuscript Traditions.” PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2025.
  • Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, “Piyale Pascià: Un Uomo dalla Reputazione Controversa”. Mediterraneo, estate 1558: la pressa di Sorrento, Massa Lubrense e Ciutadella, ed. Ida Mauro and Enzo Puglia (Sorrento: Di Mauro, 2025, 103-113).
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, ‘Brethren of Purity’ (with Janne Mattila), in Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies (2025, https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0318.xml).
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, ‘Classification of Sciences (historical)’, in Sh. Malik (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Islam and Science, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51446-3_15-1
  • Godefroid de Callataÿ, ‘Classification of the Sciences in Islamic Cultures’ (Version 1.1, 2024), in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization, ed. B. Hjórland and Cl. Gnoli, https://www.isko.org/cyclo/islamic
  • Laura Tribuzio, “Searching for Music, Finding Ratios: The Brethren of Purity’s Epistles on Music and on Proportions in the Judeo-Arabic Medical Tradition,” International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 11 (2026), pp. 85–114, https://journals.uco.es/mediterranea/article/view/18763
  • Matteo Martelli, “The Persea Tree in the Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Tradition”, in Steven M. Oberhelman (ed.), Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies in the Mediterranean Traditions, Tome 3: Remedies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 567-585, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780062-021.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “Mīr Dāmād’s On Doffing: Safavid Philosophy, Ritual Magic and Out-of-Body Experience,” in De la lettre à l’esprit / From the Letter to the Spirit: Studies in Honour of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, ed. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, 2 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), 2:155-96.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism in Early Modern Persianate Imperial Cultures: ʿAlī versus Jesus, with Hermes Presiding. A Harranian Essay in Astro-De-coloniality,” al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: Journal of Middle East Medievalists 33 (2025): 217-66.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “The Meanings of Islamic Magic,” retrospective roundtable on Michael D. Bailey’s “The Meanings of Magic” (2006), Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 20, no. 2 (2026), 374-84.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “The New Brethren of Purity: Ibn Turka and the Renaissance of Pythagorean Science in the Early Modern Persian Cosmopolis,” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 13, no. 3 (2025): 211-77.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “The Occult Court: ʿAlī Ṣafī’s Boon for the Khan (1522) as Timurid-Safavid Manual of Boozing and Battling Magic and Marker of Early Modernity,” in The Religious Cultures of Premodern Islamicate Courts in Transregional Perspective, ed. Christian Mauder, special issue of Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 38, no. 2 (2026): 272-93.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “Timurid-Mughal Philosopher-Kings as Sultan-Scientists,” in Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World: Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy, ed. Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 596-630.
  • Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “To Doubt—or to Wonder? Classist Wordwitching and Nocebic Talecrafting Meet the Islamic Weird,” Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 21, no. 1 (2026): 130-42.