Dr Emilie Savage-Smith

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Research interests:

• Islamic science, medicine, and magic

Current Projects:

• A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Volume 1: Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Related Topics. Oxford: Clarendon Press (planned date of publication 2008).
• Senior Project Researcher in team of scholars translating and studying a newly-discovered Arabic cosmography Ghara’ib al-funun wa-mulah al-‘uyun (‘The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes’); project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and AHRC.
• A study of the treatment of cataracts in the medieval Islamic world.

Recent publications:

• Medieval Islamic Medicine (with co-author P. Pormann). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/bookofcuriosities (with co-author Y. Rapoport)
• Medieval Views of the Cosmos (with co-author E. Edson). Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2004.
• The Oriental Manuscripts of St John’s College, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2005).
• (ed.) Magic and Divination in Early Islam [The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 42]. London: Ashgate, 2004.
• 'Medieval Islamic View of the Cosmos':The newly discovered Book of Curiosities (with co-author Y. Rapoport), The Cartographic Journal 41 (2004 ), 253-9.
• Arabic Treasures of the British Library: From Alexandria to Baghdad and Beyond. London: The British Library/ Friends of the Alexandrian Library, 2003.
• ‘The Book of Curiosities: A newly-discovered series of Islamic maps’ (with co-author J. Johns), Imago Mundi, 55 (2003), 7–24 and Plates 1–7.
• ‘Safavid Magic Bowls’. In: Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1505–1576, ed. by Jon Thompson and Sheila R. Canby. Milan: Skira, 2003, pp. 240–247.
• ‘Islam’. In: The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 4: Eighteenth-Century Science, ed. Roy Porter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003, pp. 649–668.
• ‘Memory and Maps’. In: Culture and Memory in Early and Medieval Islam: A Festschrift in honour of Wilferd Madelung, ed. F. Daftary and J. Meri. London: I.B. Taurus, 2003, pp. 109–27 and Figures 1–4.
• ‘Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device: Another Look’ (with co-author M.B. Smith). In: Magic and Divination in Early Islam, ed. by E. Savage-Smith [The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, vol. 42]. London/Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
• ‘Galen’s Lost Ophthalmology and the Summaria Alexandrinorum’. In: The unknown Galen, ed. Vivian Nutton [Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 77], 121–138. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 2002.
• ‘The Practice of Surgery in Islamic Lands: Myth and Reality’. In: The Year 1000: Medical Practice at the End of the First Millennium, ed. P. Horden and E. Savage-Smith [Social History of Medicine, vol. 13.2], 308-321. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• With E. Edson: ‘An Astrologer's Map: A Relic of Late Antiquity’, Imago Mundi, 52 (2000) 7–29.
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.
• Science, Tools and Magic. Part I: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe (with F. Maddison), Part II: Mundane Worlds [The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, XII], London/Oxford: Azimuth Editions/Oxford University Press, 1997. 2 vols.

Other info:

• President, Society for the History of Medieval Science nad Technology
• Council, British School of Archaeology in Iraq
• Advisory Board, Journal for the History of Arabic Science
• Advisory Board, Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine