Islam and science. To celebrate British Science Week (11-20 March) we highlight the work of
Kamran Karimullah, who recently served as co-editor (with Peter E. Pormann) of a
special issue of Oriens journal on medieval Islamic medicine (2017). He has recently completed a four-year post-doctoral post on the AHRC-funded
Genealogies of Knowledge project, which uses digital corpora to study how scientific and political concepts evolve across space, time and cultures. One of his project outputs (2020) is a
corpus-assisted study of how nineteenth- and early-twentieth century British scholars used various English terms relating to medical semiotics to translate medical writings by Hippocrates of Cos, the founder of Western (and Islamic) medicine. He has also worked on an ERC-funded project on the nature and scople of medical commentaries in Islamic intellectual history and published, among other things, a study (2019) on the
cross-fertilisation of philosophical and medical concepts in commentaries on Avicenna's epoch-making medical summa, the
Canon of Medicine.
