Razieh-Sadat Mousavi

Razieh-Sadat Mousavi is currently finishing her PhD thesis at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She works on the early Islamic astronomical books through textual and contextual analyses with a special focus on a ninth-century textbook on Ptolemaic astronomy. She is interested in the role of literary forms as mobile carriers of meaning and how they played a role in the transmission process of scientific concepts across cultures. Mousavi is a predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her study also received support from the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion, Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Mousavi’s other research interests include the history of cosmology and mathematical modelling of the universe, as well as the cultural dimensions of Medieval scientific practices.

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