Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Pouyan Shahidi is a doctoral candidate majoring in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures with a minor in the department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine in Indiana University (IU) Bloomington. He received his master’s degrees from the University of Tehran and Indiana University in history of pre-modern science and philosophy in the Islamic World. His main present research interest focuses on the interactions between natural philosophy and astronomy in the medieval Near East in general, and specifically in the works of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). Coming from an engineering background, he is also interested in digital humanities approaches to the history of science, especially in reconstructing astronomical instruments and mathematical methods in astronomy/astrology, as well as in text analysis and codicology. Other than working on his doctoral project, he is also currently working as a digital methods specialist in the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IU Bloomington).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
History Of Science
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Central Asia
Iran
Islamic World
Spain
Specialties
History Of Pre-modern Astronomy, Cosmology, And Cosmography
History Of Pre-modern Natural Philosophy (physics)
Digital Humanity Methodologies: Geospatial Data Analysis And Visualization; Digital Reconstruction Of Medieval Astronomical Instruments And Mathematical Methods
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Pahlavi (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2022
| History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
| Indiana University Bloomington
MA
| 2018
| Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
| Indiana University Bloomington
MS
| 2011
| Institute for history of science
| University of Tehran (Iran)
BE
| 2004
| Geomatics Engineering
| University of Isfahan
Abstracts
Demand and advocacy for modernization in the 19th century Iran: the sociopolitical thoughts of Mirza Mahmud Khan Afshar Kangawari in context
Moonlight, quintessence, and Gabriel: The explanation and use of the lunar spots across fields of intellectual inquiry in Islam
From experimentation to discovery: Ibn al-Haytham’s color analysis in celestial natural philosophy
From Biobibliographies to Geodatabases: A Time-Lapse Map of Ibn Sīnā’s Discipline-Specific Authorship, and a Geospatial Critique of His Imagined Past in Isfahan
