Dr. Paul Hullmeine

Research Associate

General Information

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Spätantike und Arabische Philosophie, LMU München.

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Short Curriculum Vitae

• 2017-2021: doctoral student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and BAdW, Munich
• Oct 2018 - Mar 2019: occasional student at The Warburg Institute, London
• 2015 - 2017: M.A. Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
• 2014 - 2015: Arabic Language and Literature, Ain-Shams-University, Cairo
• 2011 - 2015: B.A. Islamic Studies

Selected Publications

• Ptolemy's Cosmology in Greek and Arabic. The Background and Legacy of Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses, Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
• 'Die Istanbuler Handschrift Ayasofya 4832: Meteorologische Themen und Methoden im Bagdad des neunten und zehnten Jahrhunderts' in Das Mittelalter 29, 2024, pp. 19-36.
• ‘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.