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X-WR-CALNAME:Polygons and Polyphony: Traditions of Arabic Geometry in the P
 ost-Classical Islamicate World | Julia Tomasson
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DESCRIPTION:The period after the so-called “Golden Age of Islam” has be
 en largely dismissed as a time of radical "decline\," often blamed on the 
 “dogmatism” of Islam and evidenced by a deluge of derivative commentar
 ies on their more illustrious predecessors\, with little original work of 
 their own. Recent trends in post-classical (~14th-18th centuries CE) Islam
 ic intellectual history\, however\, have sought to reclaim this period as 
 intellectually dynamic\, with a set of epistemic priorities that were cohe
 rent\, albeit different from our own. In this talk\, I examine a set of ma
 thematical manuscripts on geometry to demonstrate that these were not “m
 ere commentaries” nor merely Greek mathematics in Arabic (as is routinel
 y claimed). Rather\, these texts show that in the postclassical period\, t
 here was a distinct shift away from Greek epistemologies and discursive tr
 aditions to new Islamic ones into which they wrote their achievements. \n\
 n \n\n\n\nJulia Tomasson is an Assistant Professor of Premodern Science an
 d Technology at Rice University.  Tomasson is a scholar of global historie
 s of science and mathematics\, early modernity\, the post-classical Islami
 cate world\, and the history of ideas and knowledge more broadly.  Her wor
 k historicizes epistemic concepts that we take for granted like reason\, p
 roof\, and authority\, drawing upon examples from across Afro-Eurasia\, gr
 ounded in manuscript material from Fez to Oxford to Isfahan. She recently 
 completed her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and her A.B. in Hi
 PSS (History\, Philosophy\, and Social Studies of Science) from the Univer
 sity of Chicago. She is in the process of turning her  dissertation into a
  first monograph tentatively entitled: “Polygons and Polyphony: Arabic M
 athematics after the Golden Age.”
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SUMMARY:Polygons and Polyphony: Traditions of Arabic Geometry in the Post-C
 lassical Islamicate World | Julia Tomasson
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