Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Charles Burnett is professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. His research interests cover many aspects of the transmission of Arabic learning to Western Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which he has explored through articles on the context in which translation from Arabic into Latin took place and on the identity and methodology of the translators, and in editions of Arabic texts with their Latin translations. His recent publications include: Abu Ma͑sar on Historical Astrology, The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions) (with Keiji Yamamoto), 2 vols. (Leiden, 2000); “The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in the Twelfth Century,” Science in Context 14 (2001): 249–88, and “Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the ‘Eastern Forms,’ “ in From China to Paris: 2000 Years of Transmission of Mathematical Ideas, ed. Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts, and Benno van Dalen (Stuttgart, 2002), pp. 237–88.
Gad Freudenthal is permanent senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. His work focuses on medieval and early modern science in Hebrew cultures. His most recent publication is Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). He is also the editor of Aleph.
Mariano Gómez Aranda is a permanent researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. His main area of research is medieval Jewish biblical commentaries. His publications include El Comentario de Abraham ibn Ezra al libro del Eclesiastés. Edición crítica, traducción, introducción y notas (Madrid, 1994) and El Comentario de Abraham ibn Ezra al libro de Job. Edición crítica, traducción y estudio introductorio (Madrid, 2004). He is in charge of a research project on Abraham Ibn Ezra’s biblical commentaries [End Page 399] dealing with scientific matters. His other research interest include medieval Jewish philosophy and science and the history of Hebrew grammar.
Y. Tzvi Langermann is a member of the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, where he teaches courses on the Qur’an, Sufism, the history of philosophy, and the history of medicine. His research interests include a wide range of subjects in medieval science and philosophy. His most recent book is The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, 1999).
Tony Lévy is chargé de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Centre d’histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales) in Paris. He has published extensively on the history of medieval mathematics, with a focus on Hebrew mathematics between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. With R. Rashed, he recently edited Maïmonide, philosophe et savant (1138–1204) (Leuven: Peeters; 2004).
Shlomo Sela is a lecturer in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. He has recently published Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science (Brill, 2003).
Renate Smithuis is Friedberg/Safra Research Fellow at the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, where she is part of the Genizah Research Project. She is also part-time lecturer at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. Her fields of interest are Medieval and Renaissance Jewish philosophy, science, and Kabbalah, with an emphasis on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe. She is currently working on an edition of Abraham Abulafia’s Sitre Torah. Her publications include “Science in Normandy and England under the Angevins: The Creation of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Latin Works on Astronomy and Astrology,” in G. Busi, ed., Hebrew to Latin–Latin to Hebrew: The Mirroring of Two Cultures in the Age of Humanism (Berlin and Turin, 2006). [End Page 400]
