Paul Hullmeine, M.A.
Doctoral Student
Short Curriculum Vitae
- 2017-2021: 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; grade: summa cum laude
- Oct 2018 - Mar 2019: occasional student at The Warburg Institute, London
- 2015 - 2017: M.A. Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munichfinal 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 Berlinfinal grade: "very good"
Selected Publications
- ‘Correcting Ptolemy and Aristotle: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ on the Almagest, On the Heavens, and Posterior Analytics’, in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 32, 2022, pp. 201-246.
- ‘Was there a Ninth Sphere in Ptolemy?’, in D. Juste, B. van Dalen, D. N. Hasse, and C. Burnett (eds), Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, pp. 79-96.
- '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