CONTACTS

Professor Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett has been Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London, since 1999. He received his MA and PhD from Cambridge University, and has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies in the University of California at Berkeley. His work has centred on the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to Western Europe, which he has documented by editing and translating several texts that were translated from Arabic into Latin, and by describing the historical and cultural context of the translations. A major project on which he has been engaged for several years with Keiji Yamamoto of Kyoto is the edition of the major Arabic texts on astrology in the Middle Ages, accompanied by English translations and editions of the medieval Latin translations. His interest in Japan has led him investigate the impact of Jesuit education in Japan in the late sixteenth century, and the use of Japanese themes in Latin drama in Europe in the seventeenth century.

Current Post: Islam-Tibet Project Supervisor & Professor of History of Islamic Influences in Europe, Warburg Institute, University of London.

Contact: charles.burnett(at)sas.ac.uk
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Dr Georgios T. Halkias

Georgios Halkias has been trained in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, where he received his DPhil in 2006 focusing on the transmission of Indian Buddhism and its development in Tibet and across culturally Tibetan regions. His previous academic training was in Comparative Philosophy and Religion (Eastern-Western) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he received an MA in comparative philosophy. He has been a full-time member of the Islam-Tibet project since March 2007 focusing on the relations between Mughal India and Ladakh. The findings from his fieldwork research are gradually being deposited at the Islam-Tibet E-repository (see Documents).

Current Post:
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS, University of London.

Contact:
http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/isa/ghalkias.html
gh28@soas.ac.uk and georgios.halkias@gmail.com

Dr Anna Akasoy

Anna Akasoy studied Oriental Studies, History and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt where she received her PhD in Oriental Studies in 2005 with a thesis on Islamic philosophy in thirteenth-century Spain. She has spent two years at the Warburg Institute as a member of the Islam and Tibet-project where her research has focused on the image of Tibet in Arabic and Persian literatures and the use of materia medica from Tibet in the Islamic world. She is currently a Departmental Lecturer in Islamic History and Thought at the Oriental Institute (Oxford). Her research interests include the history of Islamic philosophy and science and relations between the Islamic and other cultures. She is particularly interested in Andalusian intellectual culture in the Almoravid and Almohad periods and in the relationship between Sufism and rationalism.

Current Post: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

Contact:
http://faculty.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index2.php?member=aakasoy
akasoy@gmx.net

Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim completed her Ph.D. in the department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2004, with a thesis titled “Contemporary Oral Teachings on the Kālacakra tantra in Exile: Dialogue between Tradition and Change.” She then held a short term fellowship at the Warburg Institute, working on Tibetan Astro-medicine. In 2005 she joined the Warburg Institute as a member of the Islam and Tibet project, initially mapping the field and then focusing on contacts between Tibetan and Islamic medicine. She is currently a research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, where she is working on early Tibetan medicine and its links with Greco-Arab medicine.   

Current Post:
Wellcome Trust Lecturer, Department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London.  

Contact:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed
r.yoeli-tlalim(at)gold.ac.uk