Nahyan Fancy, Justin Stearns, Sonja Brentjes, A Tunç Şen, Scott Trigg, Noah Gardiner, Nükhet VarlıkRutgers, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, S Nomanul Haq
This roundtable brings together contributions from nine senior, mid-career and junior scholars who work on the history of science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies. The contributions reflect upon some of the challenges that have historically constrained the subfield, how they have sought to overcome them, and what they see as some of the more productive and fruitful turns the field has taken and/or should take in the future. A central trend in all contributions is how they seek to confront the combined weight of colonialism, Orientalism, and the teleological history of science that continues to haunt contemporary discussions in both academia and the general public with regards to science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies...
June 2023: History of Science; An Annual Review of Literature, Research and Teaching