Team
Idrīsī is directed by a team of historians of science, with the guidance of an advisory board of scholars in the history of Islamic geography, cartography, manuscript studies, and the digital humanities.
Project team
Fateme Savadi
Co-Project Director
Research Associate at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. A specialist in the history of science and geographical writing in the premodern Islamic world; her doctoral research received international awards in the history of science. Ph.D., McGill University.
Profile ↗Osama Eshera
Co-Project Director
Assistant Research Professor at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, and Assistant Director of the Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project. His research treats the history of philosophy and science in the Islamic world, ca. 800–1600. Ph.D., McGill University.
Profile ↗Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan
Co-Project Director
Affiliate Research Scholar at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland. A historian of the exact sciences in the premodern Islamic world, with a focus on textual criticism, philology, and scholarly editing. Ph.D., McGill University.
Profile ↗Advisory board
- Tony Campbell — Map Librarian (ret.), British Library; Chair, Imago Mundi Ltd.
- Ahmet T. Karamustafa — Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Maryland
- Fatemeh Keshavarz — Professor and Chair, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland
- Matthew Thomas Miller — Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities, Roshan Institute, University of Maryland
- F. Jamil Ragep — Professor Emeritus, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
- Sally P. Ragep — Senior Researcher (ret.), Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
- John M. Steele — Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Brown University
- Raffaele Viglianti — Senior Research Software Developer, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland
- Robert Wisnovsky — James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University