Paul Hullmeine, M.A.

Doctoral Student

Short Curriculum Vitae

• Oct 2018 - Mar 2019: occasional student at The Warburg Institute, London
• since 2017: doctoral student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
  dissertation project: Ptolemaic Astronomy in the Cosmological Debates in Classical Arabic Thought. With an Edition of the Arabic Text of Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson and Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse
• 2015 - 2017: M.A. Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
  final grade: "very good"; thesis: Philosophische Themen im Briefwechsel zwischen al-Bīrūnī und Avicenna, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson
• 2014 - 2015: Arabic Language and Literature, Ain-Shams-University, Cairo
• 2011 - 2015: B.A. Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
  final grade: "very good"

Selected Publications

• "Al-Bīrūnī’s Use of Philoponus for Arguing against the Eternity of the World", in Studia graeco-arabica 9, 2019, pp. 183-201
• "Al-Bīrūnī and Avicenna on the Existence of Void and the Plurality of Worlds", in Oriens 47, 2019, pp. 114-144