From April 25-27, 2017, the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at the University of Petra in Jordan and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies organised an international conference entitled The Islamic Sciences in the Western World (Middle Ages – Renaissance) Exchanges, Transmission, Influence. The programme of the conference in the order of presentations was as follows:

Miklós MARÓTH, Former President of the UAI, Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Transmission of Arabic and Greek Sciences to Islam;

Danielle JACQUART, École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, France: The Survival of the Medieval Translations of Arabic Philosophical and Scientific Texts (Incunabola, XVIth century);

Charles BURNETT, Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom: Arabica Veritas: Europeans’ Search for ‘Truth’ in Arabic Scientific and Philosophical Literature of the Middle Ages;

Alexander FIDORA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain: The Arabic Sciences and their Influence on the Classification of Philosophy and Sciences in the Latin Western World;

David JUSTE, a member of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany: The Influence of Arabic Astrology in Europe (Middle Ages – Renaissance);

Yomna T. ELKHOLY, University of Cairo, Egypt: Ibn al-Haytham in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance;

Jean-Patrice BOUDET, Loire Valley University, France: The Transmission of Magic in Europe (Middle Ages – Renaissance);

José CHABÁS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain: The Diffusion of the Astronomical Tables in Europe (Middle Ages);

Ahmed DJEBBAR, Lille University of Science and Technology, France: Arabic Mathematics and its Influence in the Latin Western World;

Joël CHANDELIER, Université Paris 8, France: The Diffusion and Influence of Arabic Medicine in Europe (Middle Ages – Renaissance);

Moneef R. ZOU’BI, Director General, Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS), Amman, Jordan: Islam and the West: Historical Models of Interdependence from Science and Academe;

Bruno LAURIOUX, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France: The Spices and Transmission of Arabic Culinary Knowledge in Europe (Middle Ages – Renaissance);

Sébastien MOUREAU, Warburg Institute, University of London, UK: The Transmission of Arabic Alchemy in Europe (Middle Ages).

The full conference programme is also available by clicking on this link.