F. Jamil Ragep

F. Jamil Ragep, born in West Virginia (USA), is an Emeritus Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies and later earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard University. From 1990 to 2006, he was a professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma, after which he joined the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill, where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2020. Ragep has written extensively on the history of science in Islam and has co-edited works on the transmission of science between cultures and on water resources in the Middle East. In collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and later with Medeniyet University (Istanbul), Ragep has overseen an ongoing international effort to catalogue all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences and provide a means to access information online on the intellectual, institutional, and scientific contexts of these texts (Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative [ISMI]). His most recent works deal with the Islamic background to Copernicus, a Persian astronomical treatise by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, the philosophy of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, and the reception of ʿAlī Qūshjī's radical astronomical program.