George Saliba

Biographic Data

ID	982525
NAME	George Saliba
GIVEN NAMES	George
FAMILY NAME	Saliba
SIGNATURE	SALIBA G
AFFILIATIONS	Columbia University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	56
TOTAL CITATIONS	6
AUTHOR COUNT	56
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2018
H-INDEX	2

Illness perceptions, depression and anxiety in informal carers of persons with depression: A cross-sectional survey
Open AccessJosianne Scerri, Therese Saliba et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2018
Illness cognitions are significant predictors of depression, thereby suggesting that cognition-based interventions may be effective in targeting depression in these informal carers. Thus, health professionals should explore the carers' personal understanding of the disease, their timeline beliefs and the perceived consequences of providing care, as they relate to their psychological well-being
In Search of the unity of the Arabic science: Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Hassan Tahiri (eds.): The unity of science in the Arabic tradition: Science, logic, epistemology and their interactions. D…
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEMetascience2012
Development and Dialogue
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEMetascience2009
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
George SalibaBOOKIslamic Science and the Making of…2007
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, Geo…
The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (review)
George SalibaARTICLETechnology and Culture2005
Reviewed by: The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives George Saliba (bio) The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives. Edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+386. $45. This book derives from a conference hosted by the Dibner Institute in November 1998, its twelve chapters being written versions of talks presented during that conference. Like all conference proceedings, …
The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus . John A. C. Greppin, Emilie Savage-Smith , John L. Gueriguian
George SalibaARTICLEIsis2001
Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology (review)
George SalibaARTICLETechnology and Culture2001
This book is slightly different from the usual Variorum book wherein the author, or someone acting on his or her behalf, decides to collect under a common theme a set of articles already published in widely scattered journals. In this case, the author was deceased, and it was one of his loyal friends, David King, who undertook the task of collecting from Donald Hill's articles some twenty titles (almost half of Hill's total article production), a…
Eastern Wisdome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England
George Saliba, G J ToomerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2000
Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam
George Saliba, Gulru NecipogluARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1999
This review article explores the relationship between the artisans and mathematicians of medieval Islam by examining the earliest historical sources in which such a relationship is depicted, and by focusing especially on the technical language that was used to describe the actual functions of one type of artisan, namely, the architect or master builder. It also argues for the need to draw necessary distinctions between the various types of artisa…
Critiques of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Islamic Spain
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEAl-Qanṭara1999
Este artículo presenta el descubrimiento de un texto hasta ahora desconocido, llamado al-lstidrāk, obra de un astrónomo anónimo andalusí del siglo XI que conoció personalmente a Azarquiel y que planteó sus dudas acerca de la tradición astronómica griega. Sobre la base de este nuevo texto, el artículo pone en cuestión la idea que se ha venido manteniendo de que la tradición astronómica islámica fue sobre todo filosófica en al-Andalus y más matemát…
Science and Medicine
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEIranian Studies1998
Reviewing an Encyclopedia is in Itself a Difficult Task, Reviewing a specific topic or a set of topics in that encyclopedia while the encyclopedia is still in progress is even more so. An encyclopedia is not a book, one cannot read it from cover to cover even when it is finished. It does not have an introduction, a thesis, an argument, and a conclusion. It is not supposed to establish the frontiers of research in any field or to raise any issues …
Dreams and Their Meaning in the Old Arab Tradition . Yehia Gouda
George SalibaARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1997
The "Arabick" Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England
George Saliba, Gül A RussellARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1997
Writing the History of Arabic Astronomy: Problems and Differing Perspectives
George Saliba, F J Ragep et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1996
This review article of two editions of a medieval Arabic astronomical text raises a series of methodological questions relating to the writing of the general history of Arabic astronomy. These include, among others, the purpose of modern textual editions, their translations and the commentaries accompanying them, and the audience intended, as one addresses varying cultural requirements. Discussion of one of these works in particular also provides…
Astronomy in the Service of Islam . David A. King
George SalibaARTICLEIsis1995
Einfürung in die arabische Zoographie: Das tierkundliche Wissen in der arabisch-islamischen Literatur . Herbert Eisenstein
George SalibaARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1995
The Astronomical Work of Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrdī: A Thirteenth Century Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy, Kitāb al-Hayʾa
Régis Morelon, George Saliba et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1995
Al-Qushjī's Reform of the Ptolemaic Model for Mercury
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy1993
In this article the author analyzes a fifteenth-century Arabic reform of the Ptolemaic model for Mercury. The author of the reform was the Central Asian – Ottoman astronomer ‘Alā” al-Dīn al-Qushjī (d. 1474 A.D.) who, in his youth, had been instructed in the mathematical sciences by none other than the famous Central Asian monarch Ulugh Beg (1394–1449). Although the astronomers of Ulugh Beg's circle are known to have produced extensive astronomica…
The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XXXIV: Incipient Decline
Robert Irwin, Joel L Kraemer et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1993
The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham: Books I-III on Direct Vision. Ibn al-Haytham, A. I. Sabra
George SalibaARTICLESpeculum1992
The Fifth International Symposium of the History of Arab Science: El Carmen de los Martires Granada, Spain Ramadan 26-Shawwal 1, 1412/March 30-April 4, 1992
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEAmerican Journal of Islamic…1992
In the context of the five-hundred-year anniversary celebrations of the"discovery of the New World" now going on in the United States andSpain, the Syrian Institute for the History of Science (Aleppo University,Aleppo, Syria), organized the Fifth International Symposium of the Historyof Arab Science in conjunction with the lnstituto de Cooperaci6n conel Mundo Arabe (Institute of Cooperation with the Arab World, the ForeignMinistry of Spain). The …
Claudius Ptolemäus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest: Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, Teil II: Die lateinische Übersetzung Gerhards von Cremona; Teil III: Gesamtkonkordanz der Sternkoordinaten
George Saliba, Paul KunitzschARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1992
The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: Books I-III, on Direct Vision
George Saliba, A I SabraARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1992
The Spherical Case of the Tūsī Couple
Open AccessGeorge Saliba, E S KennedyARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy1991
In this article we study the development of the mathematical theorem, now known as the Tūsī Couple, and discuss the difference between its plane and spherical applications
The Astronomical Tradition Of Maragha: A Historical Survey And Prospects for Future Research
Open AccessGeorge SalibaARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy1991
This paper surveys the results established so far by the on-going research on the planetary theories in Arabic astronomy. The most important results of the Maragha astronomers are gathered here for the first time, and new areas for future research are delineated. The conclusions reached demonstrate that the Arabic astronomical works mentioned here not only elaborate the connection between Arabic astronomy and Copernicus, but also that such activi…