Taro Mimura Author

F. Jamil Ragep is Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University, he has written extensively on the history of astronomy, on science in Islam, on science and religion, and on the intercultural transmission of science. He is currently leading an international effort to catalogue all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences and is co-directing a project to study the fifteenth-century background to the Copernican revolution. Taro Mimura is a research associate on the 'Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms' project at the University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in History of Science from the University of Tokyo in 2008. The title of his PhD thesis was 'The raison d'être of Classical Greek Scholarship in the Abbasid Dynasty from a view point of the Development of the Demonstrative Sciences'. From 2009 to 2012, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University, Canada, where he worked as an editor on the 'Scientific Traditions in Islamic Societies' project, a subsection of the 'Rational Science in Islam' project. He is currently working on an edition of the Arabic original of pseudo-Masha'allah's Liber de orbe.