ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

Acknowledgements

Executive Board:

Dr. Robert Casties, MPIWG, Berlin
Prof. İhsan Fazlıoğlu, Medeniyet University, Istanbul
Prof. Emeritus Jamil Ragep
Dr. Sally Ragep

Senior IT Researcher: Dr. Esma Bilgin, Medeniyet University, Istanbul
Executive Board Member Emerita: Prof. Lorraine Daston, MPIWG, Berlin

 

Current Institutional Home:
MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL

Current ISMI Research Team:

Elmin Aliyev, Medeniyet University
Mehmet Arıkan, Medeniyet University
İhsan Fazlıoğlu, Medeniyet University
Yavuzcan Gökçer, Medeniyet University
Enes Güllü, Medeniyet University
Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan
Esra Nur Osta, Medeniyet University
Jamil Ragep
Sally Ragep
Fateme Savadi
Beyza Topçuoğlu, Medeniyet University

Funding Agencies:

  • American Council of Learned Societies (2006-2007)
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation (2008-2013)
  • Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies (2007-2021)
  • Compute Canada/Calcul Canada (2018-2021)
  • Gouvernement du Québec (2008-2013)
  • McGill Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Awards (2011, 2012)
  • McGill University (2008-2013)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2015-2019)
  • University of Oklahoma (1996-2006)

Partners (pre-2020):

Collaborating Project (2006-2020):

The Post-classical Islamic Philosophy Database Initiative (PIPDI), under the Directorship of Professor Robert Wisnovsky (McGill)

    Senior Researchers (worked various times pre-2020):

    • Prof. Ihsan Fazlıoğlu
    • Mr. Adam Gacek
    • Dr. Damien Janos
    • Dr. Taro Mimura
    • Mr. Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan
    • Dr. Reza Pourjavady
    • Mr. Sergei Tourkin
    • Dr. Walter Young

    Student Researchers (worked various times pre-2020):

    • Wendy Belisle
    • Jennifer Dunn
    • Osama Eshera
    • Eileen Finegan
    • Philippe Grenon
    • Takatomo Inoue
    • Jude Khashman
    • Segolene Lapeyre
    • Amy Monroe
    • Ahmad Munir
    • Sandy Restrepo-Jerez
    • Fateme Savadi
    • Pouyan Shahidi Marnani
    • Hasan Umut
    • Chantal Wahbi

    IT Team (worked various times pre-2020):

    • Robert Casties (MPIWG-IT)
    • Katrin Dinkel (McGill)
    • Andrew Hankinson (McGill; Oxford)
    • Hartmut Kern (MPWIG-IT)
    • Jamie Klassen (McGill)
    • Alistair Russell (McGill)
    • Urs Schoepflin (former MPIWG)
    • Kai Stalmann (former MPIWG-IT)
    • Jorge Urzua (former MPIWG-IT)
    • Dirk Wintergruen (MPIWG-IT)

    BETA TESTERS (FALL 2018):

    • Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University)
    • Andrew Hankinson (Oxford University)
    • Taro Mimura (Hiroshima University)
    • Ulrich Rebstock (Freiberg University)
    • Monica Rius Pinies (University of Barcelona)
    • Hasan Umut (McGill University)

    Institutional Members of the Advisory Board (2006-2011):

    • Aga Khan University, London, U.K.
    • Archimedes Project, Harvard University, U.S.A.
    • Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran, Iran
    • Filologia Semítica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
    • Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo University, Syria
    • Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
    • Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, U.K.
    • Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations
    • Warburg Institute, London, U.K.
    • The Written Heritage Research Center, Tehran, Iran

    Individual Members of the Advisory Board (2006-2011):

    • François Charette
    • Benno van Dalen
    • Ahmed Djebbar
    • Ihsan Fazlıoğlu
    • Elaheh Kheirandish
    • David A. King
    • Y. Tzvi Langermann
    • Ulrich Rebstock
    • Julio M. Samsó
    • Jan Just Witkam