Filāḥa Texts Network Directory
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Shereen Elmitany | Place & Country: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Email: | shereen_mitainy@yahoo.com |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Himmet Taskomour |
| Institution: | Harvard University |
| Place & Country: | USA |
| Email: | himmettaskomur@gmail.com |
| 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: | 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 |