Dr. Josep Casulleras

Former Researcher

General Information

Josep Casulleras is a philologist and historian of Arabic science.

Short Curriculum Vitae

• Teaching and research positions at the University of Barcelona (since 1997)
• PhD History of Science, University of Barcelona (2006)
• Predoctoral fellowship, Spanish government (1992‐1996)
• MA Arabic Philology, University of Barcelona (1991)

Selected Publications

• “The Contents of Qāsim ibn Mutārrif al‐Qattān's Kitāb al‐hay'a”, The formation of the Classical Islamic World. The formation of al‐ Andalus. Part 2: Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences, Ashgate, 1998, pp. 339‐358, ISBN: 0‐86078‐709‐5

• “Mathematical Astrology in the Medieval Islamic West”, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch‐Islamischen Wissenschaften, 18 (2009), pp. 241‐268

• La astrología de los matemáticos. La matemática aplicada a la astrología a través de la obra de Ibn Mu'ad de Jaén, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010, ISBN 978‐84‐475‐3441‐8

• with Jan P. Hogendijk, “Progressions, Rays and Houses in Medieval Islamic Astrology: A Mathematical Classification”, Suhayl, 11 (2012), 33-102

• "The instruments and the exercice of astrology in the Medieval Arabic tradition”, Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 63 (2013), 517‐540

• “Mechanics and Engineering”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Philosophy, Science and Technology, editor in chief Ibrahim Kalin, Oxford UP, 2014, pp. 537‐542, ISBN: 978‐0199812578

• “The Astrological Computations Attributed to Ptolemy and Hermes in Medieval Arabic Sources”, at D. Juste, B. van Dalen, D.N. Hasse, Ch. Burnett (eds.), Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages (BREPOLS, 2020), pp. 201-221