# Publications **BOOKS** *- The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics: Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al-manazir* Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary (revised dissertation), 2 volumes, Springer-Verlag: *Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences*, no. 16, 1999. [Book reviews](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kheirand/publications/reviews.html) [Order from Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387985239/qid=974743072/105-5212093-4618308) *- Sources for the History of Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic World:* an Updated Critical Supplement to *An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science*, vol. 3, *on Mathematics: Cultural Studies and Research Institute*, Tehran, 1991, submitted to the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. *- Eastern Astrolabes by David Pingree, editor, general editor, Bruce Chandler:* Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, volume II. 2009. **IN PROGRESS** *- Early Arabic Optics: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Ahmad ibn Isa’s Optics,* Brill: Text and Studies Series (extension of Dibner Institute “IOTA” project). *- Pappus of Alexandria’s Introduction to Mechanics: The Greco-Arabic Tradition of Book 8 of the Mathematical Collection: Springer-Verlag:* "Sources in the History of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (extension of collaborative work on the “Archimedes Project”) *Baghdad to Isfahan: A ‘Dialogue’ of Two Cities in an Age of Science (ca. 750-1750)* A historical treatment of science in Islamic lands, based on a medieval ‘dialogue’ between Baghdad and Isfahan, reconstructed from the standpoint of scientific developments. **EDITED VOLUMES** *Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184-1153 AH/800-1740 CE)*. Special Issue of Iranian Studies, Volume 41 Issue 4, 433, Routledge, September 2008 (co-edited with Najma al-Din Yousefi and Carol Bier) **ARTICLES** “The Mathematical and Mixed-Mathematical Corpus of the Ottoman Royal Library Catalogue of Sixteenth-century Istanbul: Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics and Mechanics as Representations of Distinct Classifications and Transmissions,” Brill, 2016. “Optics and Perspective In and Beyond the Islamic Middle Ages: A Study of Transmission through Multidisciplinary Sources in Arabic and Persian,” *Renaissance Cultures of Optics and Practices of Perspective* Edited by Sven Dupré and Jeanne Peiffer, Brepols: 2016. “An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources,” In The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures, Studies and Sources in Islamic Art and Architecture: *Supplements to Muqarnas*: *An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World* 13. Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2016: 79-144 “Astronomical Poems from the ‘Four Corners’ of Persia (c. 1000–1500 CE) in *Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy*Edited by Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh and William Granara, Berlin/Boston: De Walter de GruyterGmbH: *Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East* 31, 2016: 51-90. “Light and Dark: The ‘Checkered History’ of Early Optics.” In *God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture*, edited by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015: 61–85. “Eloge A.I. Sabra (8 June 1924 – 18 December 2013)’, *Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology ad Medicine in the Pre-modern Period*, 19, 3, 2014: 281-86. “The Mixed Mathematical Sciences: Optics and Mechanics in the Islamic Middle Ages,” *The Cambridge History of Science*, vol. 2, *Medieval* *Science*, edited by David C. Lindberg and Michael H. Shank, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013: 84–108. “Optics, History of,” *Encyclopaedia Iranica: A Comprehensive Research Tool Dedicated to the study of Iranian Civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent*. New York: Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, 2010. “Footprints of ‘Experiment’ in Early Arabic Optics,” *Early Science and Medicine*; Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch, Early Science and Medicine, 14, 1-3, 2009: 79-104. “Science and ‘Mithal’: Demonstrations in Arabic and Persian Scientific Traditions” in *Sciences, Crafts, and the Production of Knowledge: Iran and Eastern Islamic Lands (ca. 184-1153 AH/800-1740 CE)*. Special Issue of Iranian Studies, Volume 41 Issue 4, 433, Routledge, September 2008 (co-edited with Najma al-Din Yousefi and Carol Bier): 465-489. “Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā al-Baʿlabakkī,” *The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers,* edited by Thomas Hockey et al. New York: Springer, 2007. “Organizing Scientific Knowledge,” *Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim World*, Agha Khan University (Conference proceedings: London, Fall 2003, ed. Gerhard Endress, Leiden; Brill, 2006: 135-154. “The Puzzle of Tusi’s Optical Works,” *Les sciences dans la monde iranien* (Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI), eds. N. Pourjavady et. Z. Vesel, conference proceedings (1998), 2004: 197-213. “The Many Aspects of Appearances: Arabic Optics to 950 A.D.,” *The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives*, ed. Jan P. Hogendijk and AbdelHamid Sabra, Proceedings of the conference: New Perspectives on Science in Medieval Islam, held at The DibnerInstitute for the History of Science and Technology (6-8 November, 1998), Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 55-83. “What 'Euclid Said' to His Arabic Readers: The Case of the Optics,” *De Diversis Artibus* (tome 55: N.S. 18): Proceedings of the XXthInternational Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997), edited by Gerard Simon and Suzanne Debarbat, Belgium: Breplos, 2001: 17-28. “Optics: Highlights from Islamic Lands,” *The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Volume Four: Science and Technology in Islam*, part I, UNESCO, 2001: 337-357. "A Report on Iran's 'Jewel' Codices of Tusi's Kutub al-Mutawasitat", *Nasir al-Din al-Tusi : philosophe et savant de x111e siecle, etudes par N.* Pourjavady et Ziva Vesel, Tehran: Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran (IFRI), 2000. “The ‘Manazir’ Tradition through Persian Sources,” *Les sciences dans le monde iranien*, eds. Z. Vesel, H. Beikbaghban et B. Thierry de Crussol des Epesse, Actes du Colloque tenu à l'Univrsité des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg (6-8 june 95), Tehran: Institut Françaisde Recherche en Iran (IFRI), 1998: 125-45. "Optics in the Islamic World", *Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures,* Kluwer, 1997: 40-44. “The Arabic 'Version' of Euclidean Optics: Transformations as Linguistic Problems in Transmission,” *Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-modern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma*, eds. F. Jamil Ragep and Sally P. Ragep with Steven Livesey, Leiden: Brill, 1996: 227-243. "Mathematics", *Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World,* ed. John Esposito, Oxford University Press, 1995, 3: 65-68. **REVIEWS** - C. A. Qadir, *Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World ,* *Journal of Islamic Studies,* Oxford University Press, Jan. 1992, vol. 3, no. 1: 107-109. - A. I. Sabra, *The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham,* 2 vols., Warburg Institute, 1989, *Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review*, Nov. 1994, vol. 1, no. 2: 188-194. J. L. Berggren, Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, New York: Springer New-Verlag, 1986” Review of Review in Persian, Nashr-e Rīyāzī: A Mathematical Journal of Iran University Press, 1995, 7, 1: 53-55. David E.P. Jackson, “Scholarship in Abbasid Baghdad with Special Reference to Greek Mechanics in Arabic,” Quaderni di Studi Arabi(1987-8): Review title: “The ‘Fluctuating Fortunes of Scholarship”: A Very Late Review Occasioned by a Fallen Book, Early Science and Medicine, Volume 11, No. 2, 2006: 207-222(16), Brill Academic Publishers.