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The Impact of Arabic Sources on Divination and the Practical Sciences in Europe and Asia

21th - 23th January 2014

Organisation Committee

Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, London
Klaus Herbers, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, stellvertr. Director IKGF Erlangen
Danielle Jacquart, École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris, Academia Europea
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Président honoraire de l’UAI, SISMEL


The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg invites to the international conference on “The Impact of Arabic Sources on Divination and the Practical Sciences in Europe and Asia”. The scientific organization has been assumed by Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, London; Klaus Herbers, Director of the International Research Consortium; Danielle Jacquart, École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, President of the SISMEL, in collaboration with the Union Académique Internationale, Bruxelles.

The presentations and discussions focused on the impact on practical sciences like divination, astrology, medicine, algebra and mechanics (which are often distinguished from the Peripatetic tradition of the theoretical natural science). The aim of this conference is to examine the Arabic/Islamic influence on these branches – both eastwards and westwards, with a particular emphasis on the European Renaissance. Therefore, the transfer of cultural concepts and scientific knowledge will be studied by looking at a wide range of authors and sources (Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Greek) comparatively.

Programme

January 21

09:00 a.m. Welcome Addresses
Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Grüske (President, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner (Director, IKGF, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers (Deputy Director, IKGF, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
09:30 a.m. Introduction
Chair: Øivind Andersen (Président de l'Union Académique Internationale, UAI)
Speakers:
Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London)
Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris, Academia Europea)
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Président honoraire de l'UAI, SISMEL)
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

Chair: Øivind Andersen (Président de l’Union Académique Internationale)
10:30 a.m. La confluence des sources grecques et arabes dans l'Occident latin
Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris, Academia Europea)
11:15 a.m. Arabic and Latin Texts on Astrology and Divination
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London)
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

Chair: Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section, Paris, Academia Europea)
14:00 p.m. L'apport des traductions arabes dans le débat sur l'authenticité des traités galéniques
Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Paris)
14:45 p.m. Why Razes?
Michael McVaugh (University of North Carolina)
15:30 p.m. Coffee Break

Chair: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Président honoraire de l’UAI, SISMEL)
15:45 p.m. Problèmes théoriques et pratiques autour des maladies chroniques: Sources arabes et lecteurs latin à la fin du Moyen Âge
Joël Chandelier (Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
16:30 - 17:15 p.m. Medieval Pharmacy and the Arabic Heritage: The Salernitan Collection "Circa instans"
Iolanda Ventura (Université d’Orléans)
17:15 p.m. End of first Conference Day

January 22


Chair: Idris Khalil (Founding Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences)
09:00 a.m. Kushyar ibn Labban’s Mathematical Approach in his Astronomical Handbook
Mohammad Baghari (Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran)
09:45 a.m. Foreign Fates: Tracing the Journey of and Influences on Horoscope Astrology in Japan
Kristina Buhrman (Florida State University)
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Chair: Georges Tamer (Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg)
10:45 a.m. Islamic Astronomical Tables in China and their Role in Astrological Predictions
Benno Van Dalen (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
11:30 a.m. Calculating the Fate of Chinese Dynasties with the Islamic Method: Chinese Appropriation of Islamic Astrology from the 14th to 19th Centuries
Shi Yunli (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui)
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break

Chair: Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London)
14:15 p.m. The impact of Arabic sources on European astrology: facts and numbers
David Juste (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
15:00 p.m. Les comètes dans le Centiloquium et le De cometis attribués à Ptolémée
Jean-Patrice Boudet (Université d’Orléans)
15:45 p.m. Coffee Break

Chair: Alexander Fidora (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
16:00 p.m. L’art talismanique: les usages latins de sources arabes (XIIe-XVe siècle)
Nicolas Weill-Parot (Université Paris Est Créteil)
16:45 p.m. The Greek-Arabic Antagonism in Renaissance Handbooks of Astrology
Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Universität Würzburg)
17:30 p.m. End of second Conference Day

January 23


Chair: Moneef Zou’bi (Directeur général de l’Académie des sciences du monde Islamique, Amman)
09:00 a.m. La circulation de l’algèbre arabe en Europe et son impact
Ahmed Djebbar (Alger et Université Lille I)
09:45 a.m. The Arabic Tradition in Mechanics
Mohammed Abattouy (Mohammed Vth University in Rabat)
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Chair: Klaus Herbers (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, IKGF)
10:45 a.m. Projecting Perfection. Alchemy as Practical Wisdom in Western Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Michela Pereira (Università di Siena)
11:30 a.m. The use of al-Kindi’s De radiis in Peter of Zealand’s Lucidarius de rebus mirabilibus (end of the 15th century)
Jean-Marc Mandosio (École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe Section)
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break

Chair: Klaus Herbers (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, IKGF)
14:15 p.m. Summary of Eastern Perspective of the Conference
Michio Yano (Kyoto Sangyo University)
15:00 p.m. Summary of Western Perspective of the Conference
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Président honoraire de l’UAI, SISMEL)
15:45 p.m. End of Third Conference Day

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