Ahmed Ragab
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1076403 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ahmed Ragab |
| PRENOMES | Ahmed |
| SOBRENOME | Ragab |
| ASSINATURA | RAGAB A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7600-728X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rhythms of Care
The Question of Childhood
Epidemic times
Recent scholarship on the Black Death has uncovered crucial new insights into the disease and its spread, and has charted ways for historians to collaborate with the biological sciences. However, this approach has emphasized the primacy of a modern Western biomedical ontology that understands the disease and its spread through Yersinia pestis. In Islamic history, this meant a focus on tracing how medieval authors distinguished modern biological p…
Logistics Performance, Industrialization, and Domestic Value Addition in Africa
This paper examines how logistics services influence Domestic Value Added (DVA) in seven African countries from 2000 to 2022. Using dynamic panel GMM analysis, results show that a one-unit increase in the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) leads to a 1% rise in DVA (p
The Problem of the Global Middle Ages
The global turn in medieval studies has, if anything, intensified the longstanding preoccupation among historians of science, technology, and medicine with Needham's question:"Why did China not produce a scientific revolution?" 1 In some cases, the answers offered are attempts at finding connections, non-European origins, or "discoveries" that happened outside Europe. 2 Others question the uniqueness of European modernity or propose comparative c…
Translation and the Making of a Medical Archive
Translation has occupied a central role in the historiography of Islamic science and medicine, and the “Translation Movement” from Greek to Arabic is often considered the birth moment of the “Golden Age.” In this view, translation is understood as a transition in which knowledge moves across a linguistic divide. However, this translation-as-transition paradigm fails to capture the linguistic diversity that existed on both sides of this seeming di…
A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data
Identifying this natal link between statistical identities and distanced control does not of course mean that we should reject statistically “enumerated identities” tout court in favor of some more “fuzzy identities.”62 To do so would be to lapse into an ahistorical fantasy of return. This is where our third key theme, difference, comes into play—difference not merely in the sense of something that is disciplined and contained but, rather, as an …
Islam intensified
The celebrated, and oft-criticised, 1001 Inventions exhibition offered a particular vision of Islam and Muslims in the West that is imbedded in the postcolonial reality of the post-9/11 world. Built around the coupling of Islam and science, the exhibition and its critics negotiate the place of Muslims in the contemporary world as mapped through the simultaneous intensification of Islam and science as epistemological categories. Such intensificati…
Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious obligations and spiritual health. This book traces the development of prophetic medical literature and religious writings around health and disease to give a new perspective on how patienthood wa…
Two students and a corpse
The central piece in Cairo medical school’s museum is a painting portraying the school’s first dissection lesson. Dissection was central to the agenda of the school’s founder, Antoine Barthelemy Clot (d. 1868). In Clot’s narrative, dissection was key to modern scientific education. In his writings, he chronicled what he believed to be his students’ resistance and disgust with the practice. This article investigates the emotional underwriting of c…
Making History
The history of pre- and early-modern science, medicine, and technology in the Islamicate world has been traditionally charted around certain signposts: Translation, Golden Age, and Decline. These signposts tethered the history of Islamic sciences to a European story that culminates in the Scientific Revolution and that links European colonial expansion (causally and chronologically) to modernity. This article looks at the roots of the classical n…
In a Clear Arabic Tongue
The history of Arabic as a language of scientific learning is punctuated by two “translation movements.” The first took place in the ninth century, when many scientific and philosophical Greek, Persian, and Indian works were translated into Arabic under the patronage of members of the Abbasid dynasty (750–1258 in Baghdad) and their clients and courtiers. The second was sparked by the establishment of European-style schools in the Arab provinces o…
Monsters and Patients
Foucault's analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters represent attempts by nature to achieve the perfection of the terminal species and are, therefore, significant for naturalists in constructing the details of the natural continuum. Despite their incompleteness, monsters underwrite th…
The Medieval Islamic Hospital
The first monograph on the history of Islamic hospitals, this volume focuses on the under-examined Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. By the twelfth century, hospitals serving the sick and the poor could be found in nearly every Islamic city. Ahmed Ragab traces the varying origins and development of these institutions, locating them in their urban environments and linking them to charity networks and patro…
Medieval Islamic Hospital
One, Two, or Many Sexes
S i n c e t h e 1990 p u b l i c a t i o n of Thomas Laqueur’s book Making Sex, his proposed “one sex” model has served as the site of many spirited debates and discussions. Joan Cadden was one of the first to criticize Laqueur’s model in her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages, in which she explained why her analysis differs from Laqueur’s: “Though there is much evidence in the present study that fits [Laqueur’s] ‘one-sex’ model, …
Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East
Ahmed Ragab, Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East: Resurrection, Reinterpretation, and Reconstruction, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 4 (October-December 2012), pp. 657-673
Epistemic Authority of Women in the Medieval Middle East
The article is formed of two parts. In the first part, it addresses a methodological concern related to the usage of Muslim religious texts as sources for analyzing the history of women in the Middle East. In the second part, the article engages the epistemic authority of women in the medieval Middle East through the analysis of the way such authority was constructed in bibliographical dictionaries and necrologies. The article argues that women e…
In a Clear Arabic Tongue
The history of Arabic as a language of scientific learning is punctuated by two “translation movements.” The first took place in the ninth century, when many scientific and philosophical Greek, Persian, and Indian works were translated into Arabic under the patronage of members of the Abbasid dynasty (750–1258 in Baghdad) and their clients and courtiers. The second was sparked by the establishment of European-style schools in the Arab provinces o…
One, Two, or Many Sexes
S i n c e t h e 1990 p u b l i c a t i o n of Thomas Laqueur’s book Making Sex, his proposed “one sex” model has served as the site of many spirited debates and discussions. Joan Cadden was one of the first to criticize Laqueur’s model in her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages, in which she explained why her analysis differs from Laqueur’s: “Though there is much evidence in the present study that fits [Laqueur’s] ‘one-sex’ model, …
Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East
Ahmed Ragab, Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East: Resurrection, Reinterpretation, and Reconstruction, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 4 (October-December 2012), pp. 657-673
A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data
Identifying this natal link between statistical identities and distanced control does not of course mean that we should reject statistically “enumerated identities” tout court in favor of some more “fuzzy identities.”62 To do so would be to lapse into an ahistorical fantasy of return. This is where our third key theme, difference, comes into play—difference not merely in the sense of something that is disciplined and contained but, rather, as an …
Epistemic Authority of Women in the Medieval Middle East
The article is formed of two parts. In the first part, it addresses a methodological concern related to the usage of Muslim religious texts as sources for analyzing the history of women in the Middle East. In the second part, the article engages the epistemic authority of women in the medieval Middle East through the analysis of the way such authority was constructed in bibliographical dictionaries and necrologies. The article argues that women e…
Translation and the Making of a Medical Archive
Translation has occupied a central role in the historiography of Islamic science and medicine, and the “Translation Movement” from Greek to Arabic is often considered the birth moment of the “Golden Age.” In this view, translation is understood as a transition in which knowledge moves across a linguistic divide. However, this translation-as-transition paradigm fails to capture the linguistic diversity that existed on both sides of this seeming di…
Making History
The history of pre- and early-modern science, medicine, and technology in the Islamicate world has been traditionally charted around certain signposts: Translation, Golden Age, and Decline. These signposts tethered the history of Islamic sciences to a European story that culminates in the Scientific Revolution and that links European colonial expansion (causally and chronologically) to modernity. This article looks at the roots of the classical n…
Monsters and Patients
Foucault's analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters represent attempts by nature to achieve the perfection of the terminal species and are, therefore, significant for naturalists in constructing the details of the natural continuum. Despite their incompleteness, monsters underwrite th…
Epistemic Authority of Women in the Medieval Middle East
The article is formed of two parts. In the first part, it addresses a methodological concern related to the usage of Muslim religious texts as sources for analyzing the history of women in the Middle East. In the second part, the article engages the epistemic authority of women in the medieval Middle East through the analysis of the way such authority was constructed in bibliographical dictionaries and necrologies. The article argues that women e…
Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East
Ahmed Ragab, Prophetic Traditions and Modern Medicine in the Middle East: Resurrection, Reinterpretation, and Reconstruction, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 4 (October-December 2012), pp. 657-673
The Medieval Islamic Hospital
The first monograph on the history of Islamic hospitals, this volume focuses on the under-examined Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. By the twelfth century, hospitals serving the sick and the poor could be found in nearly every Islamic city. Ahmed Ragab traces the varying origins and development of these institutions, locating them in their urban environments and linking them to charity networks and patro…
Medieval Islamic Hospital
One, Two, or Many Sexes
S i n c e t h e 1990 p u b l i c a t i o n of Thomas Laqueur’s book Making Sex, his proposed “one sex” model has served as the site of many spirited debates and discussions. Joan Cadden was one of the first to criticize Laqueur’s model in her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages, in which she explained why her analysis differs from Laqueur’s: “Though there is much evidence in the present study that fits [Laqueur’s] ‘one-sex’ model, …
Monsters and Patients
Foucault's analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters represent attempts by nature to achieve the perfection of the terminal species and are, therefore, significant for naturalists in constructing the details of the natural continuum. Despite their incompleteness, monsters underwrite th…
Making History
The history of pre- and early-modern science, medicine, and technology in the Islamicate world has been traditionally charted around certain signposts: Translation, Golden Age, and Decline. These signposts tethered the history of Islamic sciences to a European story that culminates in the Scientific Revolution and that links European colonial expansion (causally and chronologically) to modernity. This article looks at the roots of the classical n…
In a Clear Arabic Tongue
The history of Arabic as a language of scientific learning is punctuated by two “translation movements.” The first took place in the ninth century, when many scientific and philosophical Greek, Persian, and Indian works were translated into Arabic under the patronage of members of the Abbasid dynasty (750–1258 in Baghdad) and their clients and courtiers. The second was sparked by the establishment of European-style schools in the Arab provinces o…
Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious obligations and spiritual health. This book traces the development of prophetic medical literature and religious writings around health and disease to give a new perspective on how patienthood wa…
Two students and a corpse
The central piece in Cairo medical school’s museum is a painting portraying the school’s first dissection lesson. Dissection was central to the agenda of the school’s founder, Antoine Barthelemy Clot (d. 1868). In Clot’s narrative, dissection was key to modern scientific education. In his writings, he chronicled what he believed to be his students’ resistance and disgust with the practice. This article investigates the emotional underwriting of c…
Islam intensified
The celebrated, and oft-criticised, 1001 Inventions exhibition offered a particular vision of Islam and Muslims in the West that is imbedded in the postcolonial reality of the post-9/11 world. Built around the coupling of Islam and science, the exhibition and its critics negotiate the place of Muslims in the contemporary world as mapped through the simultaneous intensification of Islam and science as epistemological categories. Such intensificati…
A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data
Identifying this natal link between statistical identities and distanced control does not of course mean that we should reject statistically “enumerated identities” tout court in favor of some more “fuzzy identities.”62 To do so would be to lapse into an ahistorical fantasy of return. This is where our third key theme, difference, comes into play—difference not merely in the sense of something that is disciplined and contained but, rather, as an …
Translation and the Making of a Medical Archive
Translation has occupied a central role in the historiography of Islamic science and medicine, and the “Translation Movement” from Greek to Arabic is often considered the birth moment of the “Golden Age.” In this view, translation is understood as a transition in which knowledge moves across a linguistic divide. However, this translation-as-transition paradigm fails to capture the linguistic diversity that existed on both sides of this seeming di…
The Problem of the Global Middle Ages
The global turn in medieval studies has, if anything, intensified the longstanding preoccupation among historians of science, technology, and medicine with Needham's question:"Why did China not produce a scientific revolution?" 1 In some cases, the answers offered are attempts at finding connections, non-European origins, or "discoveries" that happened outside Europe. 2 Others question the uniqueness of European modernity or propose comparative c…
Logistics Performance, Industrialization, and Domestic Value Addition in Africa
This paper examines how logistics services influence Domestic Value Added (DVA) in seven African countries from 2000 to 2022. Using dynamic panel GMM analysis, results show that a one-unit increase in the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) leads to a 1% rise in DVA (p
The Question of Childhood
Epidemic times
Recent scholarship on the Black Death has uncovered crucial new insights into the disease and its spread, and has charted ways for historians to collaborate with the biological sciences. However, this approach has emphasized the primacy of a modern Western biomedical ontology that understands the disease and its spread through Yersinia pestis. In Islamic history, this meant a focus on tracing how medieval authors distinguished modern biological p…
Rhythms of Care
History (12 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Islam (7 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)