Prof. Avner Ben-Zaken

Ono College, Israel

Email: benzaken@post.harvard.edu

Qualifications

1998-2004  Ph.D., History of Science, University of California, USA

1991-1996  BA and MA, Middle Eastern History, The Hebrew University, Palestine

Research Fields and Disciplines

history of science

Publications (Selected)

Articles (Selected)

1. Avner Ben-Zaken, Jan Bremmer, Vasudha Dalmia, Richard Gordon, Michael Nijhawan, Kumkum Sangari, 2019. Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisation. De Gruyter. Religious individualisation; Volume 2, 1165-1169.
2. “Cross-Cultural History: Difficulties and Possibilities”, Cultural History Journal, forthcoming January 2013.
3. “From Universal Values to Cultural Practices”, Mapping the Jewish World: 1929 (ed.) Hasia Diner (New York University Press, 2013).
4. “Shakespeare in Jerusalem: on Magic, Science and Theater”, Haaretz Magazine, Nov. 15, 2012.
5. “Traveling with Picatrix: on the Cultural Liminalities of Magic and Science” forthcoming in a special issue of Quaderni Storici, 2013, Ed. Antonella Romano.
6. “Amatus Luzitanus and his intellectual Quarrels”, forthcoming in a special Issue of Journal of Jewish History, 2013. Ed. Anthony Molho.
7. “Placing Uranus in Geocentric Cosmology: the Liminalities of the Copernican Revoultion”, co-writing with Daniel Stolz, (in progress)
8. “If I am to Myself, then What Am I?”,Kivunim Hadashim (New Directions), Tel-Aviv, Dec. 2011. (Hebrew).
9. “The Revolving Planets and the Revolving Clocks: Circulating Mechanical Objects in the Mediterranean”, History of Science,xlix (2011).
10. “Bridging Networks of Trust: Sixteenth Century Jewish Astronomers of Salonika in between Europe and Islam”, Journal of Jewish History,Vol. 23 no.4, 2009.
11. “From Naples to Goa and Back: A Secretive Galilean Messenger and A Radical Neapolitan Hermeneutist” History of Science, xlvii (2009).
12. “The Heavens of the Sky and the Heavens of the Heart: The Islamic Cultural Context for the Introduction of Copernicanism”, The British Journal for History of Science, 37:1, March 2004.
13. “Recent Currents in the Study of Ottoman-Egypt Historiography, with Remarks about the Role of the History of Natural Philosophy and Science”, Journal of Semitic Studies, XLIX/2, Autumn 2004.
14. “Political Economy and Scientific Activity in the Ottoman Empire”, The Turks, vol. 3 (The Ottomans), (Ankara: YeniTurkiye Publication, 2002), pp. 776-794.
15. “OsmanlýÝmparatorluðu'ndaBilimselFaaliyetler”, Türkler, vol. 11, (Ankara: YeniTurkiye Publication, 2002), pp. 218-237.
16. “OsmanlýÝmparatorluðu'ndaKopernikSistemi, Türkler, vol. 11, (Ankara: YeniTurkiye Publication, 2002), pp. 289-302.

Books (Selected)

1. Ben-Zaken, Avner, “Intellectual, scientific and technological relations between Christian and Muslim civilisations 1580-1822.” i Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13. Western Europe (1700–1800) (Leiden, 2019), s. 35-45.
2. ReadingHayyIbn-Yaqzan: Cross-Cultural History ofAutodiadactism (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2010).
3. Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean 1560-1660. (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2011).
4. Communism as Cultural Imperialism: The Affinities between Eretz-Israeli Communism and Arab Communism 1919-1948, (Tel-Aviv:Resling, 2006).
5. A World History of Science (Johns Hopkins University Press) Under Advanced Contract. Forthcoming 2014.

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