The Three-Day Program of the “Islamic Medical Knowledge in Iran & India in the Modern Time” Conference

The Three-Day Program of the “Islamic Medical Knowledge in Iran & India in the Modern Time” Conference
Date: 2/10/2008

TUMS/PRENS: The three-day conference will be held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences Avicenna Conference Hall and the conference will explore the history of Islamic medicine in Iran and India during the Modern Period, from the coming to power of the Safavids in Iran and the Moguls in India, until the reform phase of traditional medical knowledge and practice. The conference…

The lectures are from France, England India, Italy and Iran and the lectures are in Persian French or English.

The organizers of the conference are: Mohammad Reza Shams Ardakani (The secretary of the conference), Fabrizio Speztale and Farid Ghasemlou.

The venue: Avicenna Conference Hall, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Qods St., Poursina St., Tehran, Iran.

Tel: (+98) 2166401192 & 2166412153

Tuesday, February12, 2008

Opening speech 09:30-10:00

SESSION I, 10:00-12.30

Medical studies in Safavid Iran (I)

- Mehdi Mohaghegh "The Canon of Avicenna and some of its commentators"
- Hasan Tajbakhsh “The Place of Baha al-Dawla Razi in Safavid medical scene.
- Coffee Break
- M. Mo'zin Jami "The Shara'yt-e jarrahi: the treatise on surgery by Abu Zayn Kahhal"
- Discussion

SESSION II, 15:00-15:30

Medical Studies in Safavid Iran (II)

- Iraj Nabipur "Medical studies in the Persian Gulf during the Safavid epoch"

SESSION III, 15:30-17:30

Medical knowledge and Religious Authority

- Andrew J. Newman "Perceiving the past: the role of Ibn Babawayh in Safavid medical theory and practice"
- Coffee Break
- Mohammad Sadr "The mystical dimension in Nur al- Din Shirazi medical encyclopaedia dedicated to Dara Shikoh"
-Discussion

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

SESSION IV: 10:00-11:00

Medicine, arts and science

- Jean During "Les usages therapeutiques de la musique en Orient musulman. Approche critique"
- Farid Ghassemlou "Astronomical knowledge for the physicians in the medical works of the Mughal age"
- Coffee Break

SESSION V: 11:30- 12:30

Medical studies in Mughal India (I)

- Ziva Vesel "Considerations sur l'encyclopedie de scinces naturelles compilee pour Awrangzeb: Farhang-e Awrangshahi" (conference lu)
- Anna Vanzan "Yunani Medicine: Is there a place for women?"

SESSION VI: 14:30-17:00

Medical studies in mughal India (II)

- Fabrizio Speziale "Entre classicisme arbe et adaptation du savoir indien: le role des traductions dans le corpus medical indo-persan de l'epoque moghole"
- Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl "A study of Nizam al-Din Ahmad Gilanis medical writings"
-Coffee Break
- Yunus Karamati "Abu al- Fath Gilani between medicine and literature"
- Discussion

Thursday, Februry 14, 2008

SESSION VII: 10:00-12:30

Traditional Medicine in front of the western Scientific Impact (I)

- Anne-Marie Moulin "A syncretic view of Qajar medicine through Dr. johann Schliemmer's lenses"
- Thierry de Crussol des Epesse "Le dilemma du dr. Abbas Naficy: presenter Isma'il Jurjani, Imam
Et medecin, au public europeen en 1933" (conference lu)
- Coffee Break
- Hakim Syed Zikkur Rahman "Contribution of Azizi family of Lucknow to yunani medicine"
- Discussion

SESSION VIII: 14:30- 17:00

Traditional Medicine in front of the Western Scientific Impact (II)

- Seema Alavi "From scholastic learning to religious healing: yunani medicine and civil society in 19th century India"
- Coffee Break
-Neshat Quaiser "Narrative of medical science culture and yunani tibb in colonial India"
- Guy Attewell "Language and locality: the canon and its margins in yunani tibb in twentieth-century India"

17:00- 17:30:
Concluding Session

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