Filāḥa Texts Network Directory
| Name: | Aishah Abdallah |
| Role/Position: | wilderness leader, environmental educator |
| Institution: | IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Commission on Education and Communication |
| Place & Country: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Email: | aabdallah@prescott.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | wilderness leadership, environmental education, wilderness leadership, environmental education and interpretation, ecological ethics of Islam, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, and bioregional study of Islamic cultures in Arabia, Central Asia, and Central / West Africa, especially Bornu / Lake Chad Region |
| Current work: | In progress: Wilderness Leadership Curriculum for the Arabian Peninsula. Published: “A Process to Establish Traditional Himas as Community Conserved Areas: Essential Skills Required” Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, 2014; “In Jabal Aja” (with O. Llewellyn) in The Face of the Earth by SueEllen Campbell, et al. University of California Press, 2011. |
| Name: | Dr. Philip Ackerman-Lieberman |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Institution: | Vanderbilt University |
| Place & Country: | Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| Email: | phil.lieberman@vanderbilt.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Organization of commerce and trade; non-Muslims in Islamic lands. |
| Current work: | Exploring urbanization in Iraq in the first Islamic centuries and the corresponding demographic and commercial shift to the West. |
| Name: | Khaerul Anam Alhabshee |
| Role/Position: | Director |
| Institution: | Bumi Langit Institute |
| Place & Country: | Imogiri, Indonesia |
| Email: | openmultiversity@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Muslim permaculturist and farmers |
| Current work: | Director of Bumi Langit Institute |
| Name: | Aun Hasan Ali |
| Role/Position: | PhD candidate |
| Institution: | Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University |
| Place & Country: | Montreal, Canada |
| Email: | aunhasanali@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | The history of Twelver Shiism in medieval Iraq. |
| Name: | Dr Mario Aliphat |
| Role/Position: | Professor |
| Institution: | Colegio de Postgraduados |
| Place & Country: | Mexico |
| Email: | marioaliphat@yahoo.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Traditional agriculture Ancient agriculture |
| Current work: | Homegardens and cacao groves of the Mayan peoples. |
| Name: | Noor Al-Islam |
| Role/Position: | translator, survival knowledges student, Raqi (Ruqiya) |
| Place & Country: | Malaysia |
| Email: | noor124@rocketmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Deen first of all, languages, Arabic Fusha, survival skills, Ruqiyah practitioner |
| Current work: | Free scheduled, including agriculture |
| Name: | Dr. Ghazi Al Nakshabandi |
| Role/Position: | Consultant, Bio-Resource Engineering |
| Place & Country: | Vancouver, Canada |
| Email: | Dr.ghazi2010@yahoo.ca |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Water management; Soil Physics, Irrigation and Drainage of Agricultural Lands |
| Current work: | Consultant in the field of water management and land reclamation |
| Name: | Shikhali Aliyev |
| Role/Position: | PHD candidate |
| Institution: | Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), Institute of Philosophy and Political-Legal Researches |
| Place & Country: | Azerbaijan |
| Email: | sheyxali77@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Arabic language and history, oriental manuscripts, Islamic philosophy |
| Current work: | the perfect man in Islamic philosophy (early centuries) |
| Name: | Juan Estevan Arellano |
| Role/Position: | Writer-Researcher |
| Place & Country: | Embudo, New Mexico-United States |
| Email: | estevan_2002@yahoo.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Doing research related to the acequias in Spain, Mexico and the Southwestern United States |
| Current work: | Working on a book, "The Wisdom of the Land, the Knowledge of Water." |
| Name: | Mushegh Asatryan |
| Role/Position: | PhD Candidate |
| Institution: | Yale University |
| Place & Country: | USA |
| Email: | mushegh.asatryan@gmail.com/td> |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Medieval Islamic religious and social history. How environmental changes/crises have affected the emergence of religious/sectarian movements. |
| Current work: | Early Shi'ite "extremism" |
| Name: | Dr. Sabina Asins-Velis |
| Role/Position: | Research |
| Institution: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas-CSIC |
| Place & Country: | Valencia, Spain |
| Email: | sabina.asins@uv.es |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Soil and Water Conservation Techniques Environmental History |
| Current work: | Agricultural terraced landscapes and irrigation techniques |
| Name: | Dr Amina Ather |
| Role/Position: | Director |
| Institution: | Indian Foundation for Rediscovering Traditional Knowledge |
| Place & Country: | Bangalore, India |
| Email: | director.ifrtk@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic medicine (Unani medicine) |
| Current work: | Global status of Unani botanicals |
| Name: | Rohandi Aziz |
| Role/Position: | College student |
| Place & Country: | Indonesia |
| Email: | rohandiazis@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | I'm interested in the study of Islamic agriculture. It is knowledge from the past years, but still relevant for the future. I hope it will help me to develop agriculture in my own country |
| Current work: | College student |
| Name: | Souad Baghli-Berber |
| Role/Position: | PhD candidate |
| Institution: | Aboubakr Belkaid University, Tlemcen |
| Place & Country: | Tlemcen, Algeria |
| Email: | berbar.souad@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Travel literature; orientalism |
| Name: | Professor Muhammad Adnan Bakhit |
| Institution: | University of Amman |
| Place & Country: | Amman, Jordan |
| Email: | m.al-bakhit@ju.edu.jo |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mamluk and Ottoman history of Bilad ash-Sham |
| Name: | Dr Hala Nayel Barakat |
| Role/Position: | Deputy Director |
| Institution: | Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage |
| Place & Country: | Giza, Egypt |
| Email: | halabarakat@mcit.gov.eg |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Manuscripts on agriculture; introduction of species to the Arab region over history |
| Current work: | Documenting history of species introductions into Egypt since ancient time; Review update of relevant manuscripts (e.g. 'Description de L'Egypte') |
| Name: | Dr. Martha Bell |
| Role/Position: | Postdoc |
| Institution: | Leiden University |
| Place & Country: | Leiden, Netherlands |
| Email: | martha.bell@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Spanish agricultural practices in Peru |
| Current work: | Islamic influences on Spanish agricultural practices in Peru |
| Name: | Abdelkader Benali |
| Role/Position: | writer, historian |
| Place & Country: | Amsterdam, Netherlands; Tangier, Morocco. |
| Email: | abenali@xs4all.nl |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Writer on several subjects concerning food, Andalusian Moroccan Cuisine and Arab botany. |
| Current work: | Preparing a cookbook with a strong focus on historical content. Casa Benali, to be published in Holland and abroad. see: www.arbeiderspers.nl |
| Name: | Daniel Birnstiel |
| Institution: | Cambridge University |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, UK |
| Email: | db437@cam.ac.uk |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Arabic language, historical development of Arabic language, Middle Arabic, scholar biographies |
| Name: | Dr. Roberta Borghero |
| Role/Position: | Post-Doctoral Researcher |
| Institution: | University of Cambridge |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, UK |
| Email: | robborghero@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Arabic Language, Semitic Philology, Neo-Aramaic dialects |
| Name: | Arno Brevoort |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, UK |
| Email: | arno.brevoort@gmail.com |
| Name: | Dr. Anthony Buccini |
| Place & Country: | Chicago, USA |
| Email: | ab21@midway.uchicago.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology (Romance, Germanic, Celtic; Greek; Arabic); food history (esp. Mediterranean and northern European); history of agriculture |
| Name: | Diana Buja |
| Role/Position: | Project Director |
| Place & Country: | Burundi |
| Email: | dianabuja2000@yahoo.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Historical aspects of agriculture in Africa; Arabic technical texts |
| Name: | Dr. Jeremy Cherfas |
| Place & Country: | Rome, Italy |
| Email: | jcherfas@mac.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Agricultural biodiversity now and in the past. |
| Current work: | Help run a website on agricultural biodiversity, at http://agro.biodiver.se |
| Name: | Francesco Chiabotti |
| Role/Position: | Contractual Teacher |
| Institution: | University of Provence |
| Place & Country: | France |
| Email: | francesco.chiabotti@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Sufism, Arabic grammar, poetry and literature, history of the Islamic word |
| Current work: | The life and the work of 'Abd al-Karîm al-Qushayrî |
| Name: | Mr. Salahuddin Costa Schreiner |
| Role/Position: | Secretary |
| Place & Country: | Granada, Spain |
| Email: | 786saladino@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Co-founder of foundation "Instituto Cultural Andalusí", Lanjarón, Granada. Starting project in collaboration with Junta de Andalucía (regional government) of a school for theoretical and practical teaching of traditional rural skills at acquired farm, based on ecology and traditional Andalusian heritage. Founders are members of Sufi Order Tariqa an Naqshibandiya al Haqqaniyya, from where inspiration is coming. We humbly ask for all kind of scientific, institutional and material support. |
| Current work: | After quitting employment by Muslim Federation as regional coordinator, and while preparing this project, I'm looking after my own farm in Ibiza, Spain. |
| Name: | Kilian Abdul Jalil Crespo-Fortó |
| Place & Country: | Besalú - Spain |
| Email: | kilianabduljalil@gmail.com |
| Name: | Alex de Carvalho Alves |
| Role/Position: | Teacher / Researcher |
| Institution: | Abragnose - Brazilian Academy of Gnosis. |
| Place & Country: | Brazil |
| Email: | iheve.br@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ancient cultures; Mythology; History of civilizations; |
| Name: | Harun Diraman |
| Role/Position: | Agricultural Engineer, Researcher, Teacher |
| Institution: | Research Institute for Olive Culture |
| Place & Country: | Izmir, Turkey |
| Email: | harundraman1@hotmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Manuscripts on agriculture; introduction of species to the Arab region over history |
| Current work: | The history of Islamic agriculture; history of agricultural technology; history of chemistry; history of food technology, esp. flour milling; history of olive oil technology; agricultural manuscripts in Ottoman Empire; agriculture and agricultural technologies in Ottoman State; introduction to Ottoman state of modern agriculture teaching from west |
| Name: | Dr. Arianna D'Ottone Rambach |
| Role/Position: | Researcher of Arabic Language and Literature |
| Institution: | Sapienza - University of Rome |
| Place & Country: | Rome, Italy |
| Email: | arianna.dottone@uniroma1.it |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Manuscripts, al-Andalus, Yemen, |
| Name: | Dr. Hassan Ebeid |
| Role/Position: | Lecturer in Manuscripts Conservation |
| Institution: | Faculty of Archaeology, South Valley University |
| Place & Country: | Egypt |
| Email: | h.ebeid@arch.svu.edu.eg |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | My principal research interests lie in the field of conservation, composition and manufacturing techniques of historical materials, and I have a particular expertise and interest in Islamic manuscripts and Islamic book manufacturing. |
| Current work: | I am currently investigating the materials and techniques used in the colouring and preventive protection of mediaeval manuscripts |
| Name: | Shereen Elmitany | Place & Country: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Email: | shereen_mitainy@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Dr. Saker El Nour |
| Role/Position: | Post-doc |
| Institution: | American University of Beirut |
| Place & Country: | Lebanon |
| Email: | sakerabdol@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Agrarian transformation in MENA region |
| Current work: | Post-doc at research project "palimpsest of agrarian transformations in south Lebanon" |
| Name: | Dr. Dirk Enneking |
| Role/Position: | Teacher |
| Institution: | Department of Education and Children Services |
| Place & Country: | Loxton, South Australia |
| Email: | enneking@westnet.com.au |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Economic botany / agricultural history / Vicia / Lathyrus / Pisum/ Cicer / Hordeum |
| Current work: | Science and agriculture teacher |
| Name: | Maria Antonia Marti Escayol |
| Role/Position: | Tenured associate professor |
| Institution: | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| Place & Country: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Email: | mariaantonia.marti@uab.cat |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Gottfried von Franken, Ibn Wafid, Abu Marwan Abd Al-Malik B. Zuhr, Early Modern European Environmental Thought, Identity and Environment, Science Fiction and Environment |
| Current work: | Les fonts del Llibre dels secrets d'agricultura de Miquel Agustí: el MS754 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya i el MS291 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France |
| Name: | Erica Ferg |
| Role/Position: | PhD candidate |
| Institution: | University of Denver |
| Place & Country: | Colorado, USA |
| Email: | eferg@du.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Pilgrimage/ziyarat, "sainthood" in Islam, saint veneration within and among Levantine agricultural communities, saint veneration in Iran, Arabic, Persian, Latin. |
| Current work: | Dissertation examining Muslim and Christian veneration of al-Khidr/St. George in Palestine. |
| Name: | Mr. Bernat Ferragut |
| Role/Position: | Designer / Builder |
| Place & Country: | Portneuf, Quebec |
| Email: | Elbernat@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Permaculture practicant; agriculture history; passionate, al andalus lover. |
| Name: | Prof. Girolamo Fiorentino |
| Role/Position: | Prof. |
| Institution: | University of Salento - Italy |
| Place & Country: | Lecce - Italy |
| Email: | girolamo.fiorentino@unisalento.it |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | History of agriculture, Archaeobotany |
| Name: | Simon Fitzwilliam-Hall |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Traditional husbandry and land use in North Africa and the Middle East. Irrigation technology and its diffusion. |
| Current work: | Arabic and Berber hydraulic and irrigation terminology. The oasis as a man-made ecosystem. The history and development of qanat technology. |
| Name: | Ms Susan Francia |
| Role/Position: | Researcher |
| Place & Country: | Oxford, England |
| Email: | s.francia@virgin.net |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic medicinal gardens, Islamic medical history, comparisons of Islamic and European medical practice |
| Current work: | A historical study of the economic, culinary and medicinal uses of cumin |
| Name: | Dr. Adam Franklin-Lyons |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Institution: | Marlboro College |
| Place & Country: | Vermont, USA |
| Email: | adamfl@marlboro.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Medieval Europe, Spanish Agricultural History, Famines |
| Current work: | Preparing material on the causes and consequences of famines in the 14th century in the Western Mediterranean |
| Name: | Nuri Friedlander |
| Role/Position: | PhD Candidate |
| Institution: | Harvard University |
| Place & Country: | USA |
| Email: | friedlan@fas.harvard.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | The treatment of animals in the Islamic tradition; Islamic law and ethics; Sufism. |
| Name: | Ms Bibi Gaston |
| Role/Position: | Author and landscape architect |
| Place & Country: | USA |
| Email: | bibig@att.net |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Northern Morocco / the Rif Mountains |
| Name: | Professor Thomas Glick |
| Role/Position: | Professor of History |
| Institution: | Boston University |
| Place & Country: | Boston, USA |
| Email: | tglick@bu.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Westward diffusion of filaha hindiyya. Irrigation systems. |
| Current work: | Irrigation systems in medieval Spain and colonial and modern New Mexico. Water law. |
| Name: | Ahmet Göksu |
| Role/Position: | Research Assistant |
| Institution: | Istanbul Fatih Sultan Mehmet University |
| Place & Country: | Turkey - Istanbul |
| Email: | ahmedgoksu@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Biology History of Islam |
| Name: | Dr. Jolanda Guardi |
| Role/Position: | Professor of Arabic Language and Translation |
| Institution: | University of Milan |
| Place & Country: | Italy |
| Email: | jolanda.guardi@unimi.it |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Andalusian manuscripts |
| Name: | Luigi Guarino |
| Place & Country: | Italy |
| Email: | luigi.guarino@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Agrobiodiversity conservation |
| Name: | Amane Hagiwara |
| Place & Country: | France/Algeria/Japan |
| Email: | hagiwara.amane@hotmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Vines, wine, olive, orange |
| Name: | Ahmed Haj Asaad |
| Institution: | Geo Expertise |
| Place & Country: | Switzerland |
| Email: | ahmed.haj.asaad@geoexpertise.org |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mapping, database, statistics |
| Current work: | Project Manager |
| Name: | Hajja Latifah Abd-Hamid Hakimah |
| Institution: | Medina Baye Islamic Ecology & Environmental Learning Centre |
| Place & Country: | USA/West Africa |
| Email: | mbieelc@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Quran and environmental ethics; whole food nutrition for human development; sustainability as a way of life. |
| Current work: | Involved in developing, from an Islamic perspective, an Ecology and Environmental Learning Center for the youth of USA and West African communities. |
| Name: | Dr. Bink Hallum |
| Role/Position: | Research Fellow, Dept. of Classics and Ancient History |
| Institution: | University of Warwick |
| Place & Country: | Coventry, UK |
| Email: | binkhallum@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Graeco-Arabic Studies. Arabic reception of Greek Sciences, including Magic and the Occult Sciences (esp. Alchemy and Talismanic Magic) |
| Current work: | Editing and translating Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s translation of Galen's Commentary on the Epidemics of Hippocrates Bk 2. Editing the Arabic translations of the 4th cent. alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis's Epistles to Theosebeia. Editing and translating al-Zarqaili's treatise on the 7 Planetary Magic Squares. Editing Muhammad b. Zakariya al-Razi's Kitab al-A¡awa (?) and assessing the Greek heritage of his alchemical thought. |
| Name: | Prof. Dr. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila |
| Role/Position: | Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies |
| Institution: | University of Helsinki |
| Place & Country: | Helsinki, Finland |
| Email: | jaakko.hameen-anttila@helsinki.fi |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ibn Wahshiyya; history of science (mainly Sa'id al-Andalusi); Classical Arabic literature |
| Current work: | Sa'id al-Andalusi and his Tabaqat al-umam |
| Name: | Prof. Ridha Hamila |
| Role/Position: | Academic |
| Institution: | Qatar University |
| Place & Country: | Qatar |
| Email: | hamila@qu.edu.qa |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Telecommunications |
| Name: | Salah Hammad |
| Role/Position: | Permaculture Designer/Educator |
| Institution: | Permaculture Research Institute |
| Place & Country: | Australia/Jordan |
| Email: | swhammad@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Permaculture and Agro-ecology. Food Production History |
| Name: | Annette Hansen |
| Role/Position: | Independent Researcher |
| Institution: | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Place & Country: | Groningen, NL |
| Email: | a.m.hansen@rug.nl |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish farming manuals, Agricultural economy in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods |
| Name: | Sadhir Hussain |
| Place & Country: | Dubai, UAE |
| Email: | sadhir.hussain@gmail.com |
| Name: | Farah Issam |
| Role/Position: | Translator |
| Place & Country: | Palestine |
| Email: | Farahtalk.89@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Freelance translator, student at the Hebrew University Of Jerusalem. |
| Name: | Prof. Abdullah Jaradat |
| Role/Position: | Research Leader & Professor |
| Institution: | USDA-ARS & University of MInnesota |
| Place & Country: | Minnesota, USA |
| Email: | jarad001@umn.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa (agroecosystems, Plant/crop genetic resources) |
| Current work: | Crops adaptation to global climate change at the phenotypic, macromolecules (protein, oil, starch), macro- and micro-nutrient levels; Phenotyping ecophysiological and nutritional quality traits for accelerated plant breeding; Training graduate students on the above listed topics. |
| Name: | Nancy Jenkins |
| Role/Position: | Writer |
| Place & Country: | Cortona (Arezzo), Italy; Camden, Maine USA |
| Email: | nancyharmonjenkins@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mediterranean food history, Mediterranean culture, olives and olive oil, Italian food history |
| Current work: | Extra-virgin olive oil, a book for consumers, connoisseurs, and farmer-producers |
| Name: | Jett Johansson |
| Place & Country: | Sicily |
| Email: | jettcajo@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | I am interested in the social/economic work that these agronomists developed upon the distribution of resources and also interested in experimenting with Moorish cultivation techniques in Sicily. |
| Current work: | I work with agriculture in Sicily |
| Name: | Rahid Umar Kazi |
| Role/Position: | Farming / MD |
| Institution: | Belgaum Poly Organic |
| Place & Country: | India |
| Email: | poly_rahid@yahoo.co.in |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Organic farming in relation to the sunnah and practices at the time of Prophet (sws) |
| Current work: | Family agricultural inputs business and farming in my native Nipani, Belgaum, India; also working as an agronomist |
| Name: | Sarah Khan |
| Role/Position: | Director |
| Institution: | Tasting Cultures Foundation, Inc. |
| Place & Country: | New York, USA |
| Email: | sarahkhurshidkhan@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ethnobotany, biocultural diversity |
| Name: | Sohel Khan |
| Role/Position: | Student |
| Place & Country: | Toronto, Canada |
| Email: | sohelmk@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | History |
| Current work: | History of Islamic Civilization |
| Name: | Sung Kyu Kim |
| Role/Position: | Doctoral researcher |
| Institution: | IDS, University of Sussex |
| Place & Country: | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Email: | s.kim@ids.ac.uk |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | agriculture, smallholder farming, crop and livestock production systems, sub-Saharan Africa |
| Current work: | sustainable intensification of agriculture through crop and livestock production systems integration |
| Name: | Kaye Lafond |
| Role/Position: | Student |
| Institution: | Michigan Technological University |
| Place & Country: | Houghton, Michigan |
| Email: | kmlafond@mtu.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Water Resources Engineering; Ecosystem Hydrology; Arabic Language ; Water Diplomacy; Water Resource Management |
| Current work: | Dual degrees in environmental engineering/applied ecology. |
| Name: | Dr. Rachel Laudan |
| Place & Country: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Email: | rachel@rachellaudan.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Global culinary history |
| Current work: | Cuisine and Empire. Cooking in World History. To be published by the University of California Press, 2012 |
| Name: | Nellika Little |
| Place & Country: | New York City / Afghanistan / Other |
| Email: | nellika.little@gmail.com |
| Name: | Othman Abd-ar-Rahman Llewellyn |
| Role/Position: | Environmental Planner |
| Institution: | Saudi Wildlife Authority |
| Place & Country: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Email: | Othman.Aishah@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | ecological implications of the ethics of Islam, Islamic environmental law, conservation of wildlands and biodiversity, traditional conservation practices: himas, terraces, aflaj, rainwater harvesting technologies, permaculture, literature on the natural world |
| Current work: | In progress: a monograph on ecological implications of the ethics of Islam; Saudi Arabia's protected area system plan; mapping the bioregions of the Arabian Peninsula. Published: “The Basis for a Discipline of Islamic Environmental Law”; “Requirements for Successful Revival of the Hima”; “Environmental Protection in Islam” (co-author) |
| Name: | Phoebe Luckyn-Malone |
| Role/Position: | PhD Candidate |
| Institution: | University of Cambridge |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, UK |
| Email: | pell2@cam.ac.uk |
| Name: | Samir Mahmoud |
| Role/Position: | PhD Candidate |
| Institution: | University of Cambridge |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, UK |
| Email: | sm633@cam.ac.uk |
| Name: | Ignasi Mangue |
| Role/Position: | Project coordinator at the Foundation Assut |
| Institution: | Assut Foundation |
| Place & Country: | Spain |
| Email: | imangue@fundacioassut.org |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Archaeology waterscapes of Islamic origin- Intangible heritage of water |
| Current work: | http://www.paisatgesculturals-rsm.org/inicio/Project coordinator at the Foundation Assut |
| Name: | Richard Masson |
| Role/Position: | Mature student of international agriculture |
| Institution: | Hadlow College, Tonbridge, Kent, UK |
| Place & Country: | Edenbridge, Kent, UK |
| Email: | richard@masson57.demon.co.uk |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | General interest in how agricultural knowledge was spread |
| Current work: | BSc examinations |
| Name: | Dr. Peter Matthews |
| Role/Position: | Associate Professor, Researcher, Teacher |
| Institution: | National Museum of Ethnology |
| Place & Country: | Osaka, Japan |
| Email: | pjm@idc.minpaku.ac.jp |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ethnobotany and prehistory; introduction and spread of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Mediterranean; History of agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. |
| Current work: | Wild taro in southern Japan and Southeast Asia. PUBLISHED: 2006 Matthews, P. J., Written records of Taro in the Eastern Mediterranean. In Z. Fusun Ertug (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB 2005), Istanbul-Turkey, 21-26 August 2005, pp.419-426, Yayinlari, Istanbul. Available on request as PDF file |
| Name: | Michela Mazzaro |
| Role/Position: | Student |
| Place & Country: | Italia |
| Email: | michelamazzaro@tiscali.it |
| Name: | Djamel Eddine Mechehed |
| Role/Position: | Codicologist and person in charge of the library |
| Institution: | Library manuscripts Lmuhub Ulahbib |
| Place & Country: | Bejaia, Algeria |
| Email: | mechehed2@hotmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Valorization of texts in agriculture of our collection |
| Current work: | Codicologist within the research team of learned society GEHIMAB - Béjaia |
| Name: | Professor Outi Merisalo |
| Role/Position: | Professor of Romance philology |
| Institution: | University of Jyväskylä |
| Place & Country: | Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Email: | omerisalo@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Palaeography, codicology, text editing, transmission history, mediaeval Latin, humanist Latin, Old French, Middle French, history of medicine in the Middle Ages |
| Current work: | Edition of the Ps. Galenic de spermate (http://staff.jyu.fi/Members/merisalo/despermate) |
| Name: | Mohd Dani Muhamad |
| Institution: | Mara University of Technology |
| Place & Country: | Malaysia |
| Email: | mohddanimuhamad@yahoo.com.my |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic building regulations; Environmental Islamic law |
| Current work: | Translating Kitab al-Ilan bi Ahkam al-Bunyan of Ibn al-Rami |
| Name: | Evan Murphy |
| Institution: | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Place & Country: | Champaign, IL USA |
| Email: | murphy71@Illinois.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Modern Middle East, Agrarian History, History of Science, World History |
| Current work: | As part of my doctoral dissertation, I am looking at how modern Arab authors during the Nahda interpreted the agricultural revolution in Europe by returning to medieval Arab agricultural texts as a source of scientific authority. |
| Name: | Peter Nahon |
| Role/Position: | Elève archiviste paléographe |
| Institution: | Ecole Nationale des Chartes |
| Place & Country: | Paris, France |
| Email: | peter.nahon@enc.sorbonne.fr |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | I am now working on a research thesis being a comparative and diachronic study of texts referring to Ficus carica (L.) in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean agronomic and botanic literature, taking into my scope Latin treatises, Greek geoponica, as well as texts from the Filāḥa corpus, including particularly Nabatean Agriculture and Ibn-al-Âwwam, considering too Alonso de Herrera and the early Renaissance Italian agriculture works |
| Name: | Harriet Nash |
| Role/Position: | Research |
| Institution: | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter |
| Place & Country: | UK |
| Email: | nashalbu@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Star use in timing irrigation water; Star lore; Almanacs using stars |
| Name: | Hagit Nol |
| Role/Position: | PhD student |
| Institution: | AAI, Hamburg University |
| Place & Country: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Email: | nolgit@yahoo.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | agriculture in Bilad al-Sham in the 8th-9th centuries, agriculture in ‘cities’,manuals, date-palms, archaeological data of Early Islamic agriculture |
| Name: | Khaled Odetallah |
| Role/Position: | researcher |
| Place & Country: | Palestine |
| Email: | kodetalah@gmail.com |
| Name: | Diane O'Donovan |
| Place & Country: | Australia |
| Email: | diane.odonovan3@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | An industrial archaeologist, specialising in iconographic analysis |
| Current work: | Preparing a manuscript for publication |
| Name: | Sara Pozzi |
| Place & Country: | Cairo |
| Email: | sp549@nau.edu |
| Name: | Dr. Yossef Rapoport |
| Role/Position: | Lecturer |
| Institution: | Queen Mary University of London |
| Place & Country: | London, UK |
| Email: | y.rapoport@qmul.ac.uk |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Social history of medieval Islam; history of Islamic geography |
| Current work: | History of rural society in medieval Egypt: translation and study of History of the Fayyum by Nabulsi (1243 AD). |
| Name: | Dr. Felix Retamero |
| Role/Position: | Lecturer |
| Institution: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Place & Country: | Catalonia. Spain |
| Email: | felix.retamero@uab.cat |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Irrigation systems in al-Andalus; agriculture and conquest of al-Andalus |
| Current work: | Andalusi agriculture; Morisco agriculture; colonial agricultures |
| Name: | Kristina Richardson |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor of Islamic History |
| Institution: | Queens College, The City University of New York |
| Place & Country: | New York, NY, USA |
| Email: | kristina.richardson@qc.cuny.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mamluk history |
| Current work: | Editing and analyzing a 16th-century silk weaver/trader's diary |
| Name: | Tucker Robbins |
| Role/Position: | CEO founder |
| Institution: | Tucker Robbins Inc |
| Place & Country: | USA,UAE |
| Email: | Tuckrobbins@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Gulf culture, Water systems |
| Current work: | Festivals Culture Artisan development for Abu Dhabi |
| Name: | Jason Rogers |
| Role/Position: | PhD student |
| Institution: | Michigan State University |
| Place & Country: | Michigan, USA |
| Email: | jcrlinguist@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | French/Spanish literature, manuscripts on agriculture, Romance philology, Semitic philology-Arabic linguistics |
| Current work: | PhD studies, working on a handbook for use of historical linguistics in the high school classroom |
| Name: | Eli Rogosa |
| Role/Position: | farmers and researcher |
| Place & Country: | US |
| Email: | growseed@yahoo.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Al Andalus agriculture, biodiversity conservation of landrace wheat |
| Current work: | Heritage Grain Conservancy: growseed.org |
| Name: | Nicolas Roth |
| Role/Position: | PhD Student |
| Institution: | Harvard University |
| Place & Country: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Email: | njroth@fas.harvard.edu |
| Current work: | My research focuses on the garden culture and horticultural and agricultural writings of medieval and early modern South Asia. I work primarily in Hindi, Urdu, Persian, and Sanskrit but also have some training in Arabic. |
| Name: | Abeer Mohamed Abd El Salam |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor - Spanish Department |
| Institution: | Cairo University |
| Place & Country: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Email: | abeer_salam@hotmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ex-Cultural Attaché at the Egyptian Embassy in Madrid. Collaborated in the La Huella Arabe Symposium in Madrid 2008. |
| Name: | Dr. Dana Sajdi |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Institution: | Boston College |
| Place & Country: | Chestnut Hill, MA - USA |
| Email: | sajdi@bc.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ottoman history, Arabic historiography, urban topography. |
| Current work: | Working Titles: 1) The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Ottoman Levant. 2) Possessing the City: Damascus from Ibn `Asakir to Muhammad Kurd Ali. 3) Imagined in the Image of the Other: Narrations of Damascus and Istanbul. |
| Name: | Summer Satushek |
| Role/Position: | Student |
| Place & Country: | United Stated of America |
| Email: | summer.satushek@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Desert reclamation, local food distribution, organic farming |
| Name: | PD Dr. Carlo Scardino |
| Role/Position: | Researcher |
| Institution: | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Place & Country: | Freiburg , Germany |
| Email: | carlo.scardino@ucf.uni-freiburg.de |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Classics, islamic sciences, working on graeco-arabistic |
| Current work: | The influence of arabic translations of late antique Greek farming works on Arabic Filāḥa Texts. Preparation of critical editions of these works |
| Name: | Hüseyin Sen |
| Role/Position: | Phd candidate |
| Institution: | Utrecht University |
| Place & Country: | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Email: | h.sen@uu.nl |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | History of Arabic Science & Technology |
| Current work: | An intellectual biography of the 16th Century Ottoman Scholar Taqi al-Din ibn Ma'ruf (d.1585) |
| Name: | Dr. Adi Setia |
| Role/Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Institution: | International Islamic University, Malaysia |
| Place & Country: | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Email: | adisetiawangsa@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | History & Philosophy of Islamic Science, Kalam Physical Theory |
| Current work: | Translation of Ja'far al-Dimashqi, Kitab al-Isharah ila Mahasin al-Tijarah, into English; and other translations of classical Arabic texts on science, kalam and economics. |
| Name: | Dr. Ido Shahar |
| Role/Position: | Post-Doctoral researcher |
| Institution: | Queen Mary University of London |
| Place & Country: | UK |
| Email: | idoshah@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Medieval Islamic rural societies, Islamic law, Anthropology of law |
| Current work: | Together with Dr. Yossef Rapoport - a translation and analysis of 'Kitab Ta'arikh al-Fayyum' by Abu 'Uthman al-Nabulusi. |
| Name: | Dr Miri Shefer |
| Role/Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Institution: | Tel Aviv University |
| Place & Country: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Email: | shefer@post.tau.ac.il |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Ottoman environment, cultural perceptions of nature and everyday material realities thereof, early modern period, Turkish- and Arabic-speaking societies |
| Name: | Roman Shtefura |
| Role/Position: | student |
| Institution: | RSUH (Institute of Oriental Cultures and Antiquity) |
| Place & Country: | Moscow, Russia |
| Email: | bait.maktoob@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Arabic, Yemen history, Manuscripts, Turkish history language and culture |
| Current work: | Graduation work on manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal and Rasulid dynasty of Yemen |
| Name: | Branden Staub |
| Role/Position: | Eco-Agronomist |
| Place & Country: | Lower Midwest, U.S |
| Email: | monos922@netscape.net |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Small-scale agriculture, soil ecology, sustainable agricultural systems, Tree-based systems: e.g. silviculture, silvipasture. |
| Current work: | Rural sustainable agriculture development and education. |
| Name: | Hud Sulaiman |
| Role/Position: | Chairman |
| Institution: | Malaysian Institute of Sustainable Agriculture |
| Place & Country: | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Email: | hud.sulaiman@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | sustainable farming |
| Current work: | community development program on natural sustainable farming in Malaysia |
| Name: | Tanfidz Syuriansyah |
| Role/Position: | Volunteers |
| Institution: | MadrasahPertanian.com |
| Place & Country: | Bandung, Indonesia |
| Email: | saisbandung@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic Agriculture, Food Safety & Security |
| Current work: | Admin at PohonZaitun.info |
| Name: | Himmet Taskomour |
| Institution: | Harvard University |
| Place & Country: | USA |
| Email: | himmettaskomur@gmail.com |
| Name: | Dr. Omar Imseeh Tesdell |
| Place & Country: | Minnesota |
| Email: | otesdell@umn.edu |
| Name: | Fatma Tounsi |
| Role/Position: | Master student of Biochemistry |
| Place & Country: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Email: | fto_2006@hotmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | I am interested in the history of the Arabic language and how it developed through time, specifically in its state of diglossia and how it came about. I am also interested in illustrated Arabic manuscripts, both literary and scientific. |
| Current work: | I am currently working on my master project, a biophysics project on anesthetics. |
| Name: | Abderrezak Trouzine |
| Role/Position: | Student |
| Place & Country: | Tlemcen, Algeria |
| Email: | tbs_ms@yahoo.fr |
| Name: | Christiane Truelove |
| Role/Position: | Researcher |
| Place & Country: | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Email: | christianetrue@earthlink.net |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Specifically the ways certain crops were cultivated in Sicily during the Arab period. Making connections with Sicilian foodways today. |
| Name: | Dr. Daniel Martin Varisco |
| Role/Position: | Professor of Anthropology |
| Institution: | Hofstra University |
| Place & Country: | New York, USA |
| Email: | daniel.m.varisco@hofstra.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Yemen agriculture (Islamic era, especially the Rasulid era); history of Arabic agricultural texts; time-keeping and Arab folk astronomy of seasons; ethnography of Arab agriculture. |
| Current work: | Finishing translation of the Rasulid agricultural treatise of al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar (Milh al-malaha fī ma‘rifat al-filaha) as part of a major study of Rasulid agriculture in Yemen. |
| Name: | Professor Bethany Walker |
| Role/Position: | Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History |
| Institution: | Missouri State University |
| Place & Country: | Springfield, Missouri - USA |
| Email: | bethanywalker@missouristate.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mamluk Jordan, Islamic archaeology, environmental history of late medieval Islam. |
| Current work: | Human migration in late medieval Bilad al-Sham, environmental and agricultural history of the same. |
| Name: | Professor Andrew Watson |
| Role/Position: | Professor Emeritus of Economics |
| Institution: | University of Toronto |
| Place & Country: | Toronto, Canada |
| Email: | awatson@chass.utoronto.ca |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Agricultural history of Islamic world |
| Name: | Clifford Wright |
| Role/Position: | Cookbook author and food writer |
| Place & Country: | Santa Monica, CA USA |
| Email: | cwright@cliffordawright.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Mediterranean culinary and food history |
| Current work: | Provincial Italian cuisine; Italian culinary patrimony |
| Name: | Luke Yarborough |
| Role/Position: | PhD candidate |
| Institution: | Princeton University |
| Place & Country: | Princeton, NJ, USA |
| Email: | lyarbrou@princeton.edu |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamics |
| Current work: | Dissertation examining early discourses of opposition to the employment of non-Muslims by Islamic states. |
| Name: | Dr. Syed Rehan Zaidi |
| Role/Position: | Naturopathic doctor |
| Institution: | Malacca College of Naturopathic Medicine |
| Place & Country: | Canada / Malaysia |
| Email: | zaidir@gmail.com |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Islamic/Prophetic Medicine, Herbal/Botanical Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy |
| Current work: | Lecturer |
| Name: | Dr. Juan Zozaya |
| Role/Position: | Retired Museum Curator |
| Place & Country: | Almagro, Spain |
| Email: | rolo_sueco_es2001@yahoo.es |
| Expertise/Interest(s): | Andalousi archaeology, Mediterranean relations, land settlement, cultural relations |
| Current work: | Ceramics, metalwork, military architecture, army structure |