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Amir Mohammad Gamini

Associate Professor

Update: 2024-12-04

Amir Mohammad Gamini

Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies / History of Science

Journal Paper

  1. "A Phylogenetic Study of the Concept of Celestial Orb"
    Mohammad mahdi Sdrforati, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Principia, Vol. 26, No 3, 2022
  2. "Sajjad Nikfahm; Fateme Savadi (Editors). Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī’s al-Risāla al-Muʿīniyya (The Muʿīniyya Treatise) and Its Supplement. (Critical Edition of the Persian Texts, 1.) 354 pp. Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2020. $23.04 (cloth); ISBN 9786002032034."
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    ISIS, Vol. 113, No 1, pp.175-177, 2022
  3. "The principle of simplicity for Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini, Mohammad mahdi Sadr forati
    STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, Vol. 91, No 1, pp.60-65, 2022
  4. "What do we talk about when we talk about premodern science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 19, No 1, pp.1-8, 2021
  5. "Hanif Ghalandari. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Kharaqī’s Muntaha al-Idrāk fī Taqāsīm al-Aflāk (Ultimate Comprehension of the Subdivision of Celestial Spheres: The First Comprehensive hay’a Work on Ptolemaic Cosmology). Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2020. $36.81 (cloth); ISBN: 9786002031907."
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    ISIS, Vol. 112, No 3, pp.599-600, 2021
  6. "A Critique of Darwin’s The Descent of Man by a Muslim Scholar in 1912: Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī's Examination of the Anatomical and Embryological Similarities Between Human and Other Animals"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, Vol. 54, No 2, pp.1-27, 2021
  7. "Book Review: Sonja BRENTJES, Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800-1700) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 12.7 × 20,3 cm, 334 p., 18 colour ill., 4 b/w tables, series “Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and influence.”"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Revue d Histoire des Sciences, Vol. Tome 74, No 1, pp.195-225, 2021
  8. "QUṬB AL-DĪN AL-SHĪRĀZĪ AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-PTOLEMAIC PLANETARY MODELING IN THE 13th CENTURY"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 27, No 2, pp.165-203, 2017
  9. "AL-SHĪRĀZĪ AND THE EMPIRICAL ORIGIN OF PTOLEMY'S EQUANT IN HIS MODEL OF THE SUPERIOR PLANETS"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini, Hosayn Masoumi
    Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 23, No 1, pp.47-67, 2013
  10. "A Criticism of Current Narratives of the Scientific Revolution: under the pretext of publishing the Persian translation of The Birth of New Physics written by Bernard Cohen"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 21, No 2, pp.153-167, 2024
  11. "A Confrontation between Aristotelian and Newtonian Metaphysics in Qājar Period: Muḥammad-Karīm Khān Kirmānī’s Criticism of Heliocentrism"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Metaphyzik, Vol. 16, No 37, pp.155-179, 2024
  12. "A review of English translation of Tusi Muiniya"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 12, 2024
  13. "A Review of a Documantary film about Hafez Esfahani: What gone with time"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 12, 2024
  14. "A Persian Translation of Hartner and Schramm's paper - Al-Biruni and the Theory of Solar Apogee, an Example of Originality in Arabic Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 21 و 22, 2024
  15. "A review of Zij Yamini"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 21 و 22, 2024
  16. "A Persian translation of Jan Z, Wilczynski's paper- On the Presumed Darwinism of Alberuni Eight Hundred Years before Darwin"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 21 و 22, 2024
  17. "Shaykhists and a Treatise on the Cartesian and Newtonian Explanations of the New Astronomy in Early Naserian Period"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Sophia Perennis, Vol. 19, No 2, pp.71-92, 2023
  18. "Shiite Ulama and Application of Modern Sciences for Propaganda in Qajar Period: Muḥammad-Ḥusayn Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ’s Literal and Metaphorical Interpretation of Islamic Holy Texts to be Conciliated with Modern Astronomy"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 20, No 2, pp.67-91, 2023
  19. "The Principle of Simplicity in the Hayʾa Books: A Revision to the Motivations behind the Development of non-Ptolemaic Planetary Models"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Sophia Perennis, Vol. 18, No 40, pp.229-258, 2022
  20. "When did Celestial Orbs become Hard? An overview of the history of the concept Orb in the Islamic Civilization"
    Mohammad mahdi Sadr forati, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    falsafei alm, Vol. 11, No 22, 2022
  21. "Some of the Scientific and Historical Features of Qutb al-Din Shirazi’s Ikhtiyārāt-e Muzaffari, the Most Comprehensive Persian Book on Hay’a"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Mirror of Heritage, Vol. 18, No 66, 2020
  22. "A historiographical debate on the obstacles or causes of Scientific Revolution in the West and Islamicate Societies"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 18, No 1, 2020
  23. "Athīr al-Dīn Abharī’s Risāla fī al-Hayʾa: Text and Survey"
    Zahra Tavakkol, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 18, No 1, 2020
  24. "Serving and betraying objectivity in the history of Islamic science, of Roshdi Rashed and about him"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Farhangbaan, Vol. سال یکم، پاییز 1398, No 3, pp.231-237, 2019
  25. "Shaykhī vs. Imāmī Ulama on the Religious Interpretation of Modern Astronomy in the last years of Qajar Era: Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Khān Kirmānī and Hibat al-Dīn Shahristānī"
    reza aghaee, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. دوره 16، شماره 1، بهار و تابستان 1397, No 24, pp.1-15, 2019
  26. "Imamate Shiite Ulama and the Modern Astronomy in Qajar Period"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. دوره 16، شماره 1، بهار و تابستان 1397, No 24, pp.65-93, 2019
  27. "A review of the Book What is Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini, Zeynab Sayyar
    Farhangbaan, Vol. سال یکم، تابستان 1398, No 2, pp.203-209, 2019
  28. "Un Témoignage sur l’Activité de l’Observatoire de Samarqand Après la Mort d’Ulug Beg"
    Francis Richard, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. ﺳﺎل ﻫﻔﺘﻢ، ﺷﻤـﺎرۀ دوم، ﭘﺎﯾﯿﺰ و زﻣﺴﺘﺎن 1397, No 14, pp.88-93, 2019
  29. "Is natural sciences of Islamic civilization rooted in Islam?"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Philosophy & theology & mysticism Quarterly Book Review, Vol. 8, pp.139-157, 2018
  30. "A Study of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Role in Optics"
    Fateme Arbabi Far, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Iranian Journal for the History of Islamic Civilization, Vol. 48, No 2, 2018
  31. "Encountering Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the Qajar Period: Muḥammad Riḍā Iṣfahānī and Human Evolution"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 12, No 2, pp.297-350, 2017
  32. "A translation of Willy Hartner's "The Role of Observations in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy""
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 6, No 1, pp.9-24, 2017
  33. "Kaveh Niazi: Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Configuration of the Heavens: A Comparison of Texts and Models"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 12, No 1, pp.115-130, 2017
  34. "Terminator of Muslim Astronomers"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Astronomy, Vol. 20, No 262, pp.42-43, 2017
  35. "A Review of An Introduction to the Contemporary Philosophy of Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Philosophy & theology & mysticism Quarterly Book Review, Vol. 3, pp.77-80, 2017
  36. "David King: An essay review of the chapters on mathematics and astronomy in S. H. Nasr, Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. 5, No 1, pp.102-112, 2017
  37. "Science, Religion and Superstition in Islamic Civilization"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Pure & applied sciences Quarterly Book Review, Vol. دوم, pp.17-30, 2016
  38. "Diversity and Variety of Hay'a Books in Islamic Civilization"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. دورۀ یازدهم، شمارۀ 2, No 15, 2016
  39. "Book Review: Radkan Tower"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. سوم, pp.143-148, 2016
  40. "Faith and Science-Mona Abaza"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. سوم, pp.69-75, 2016
  41. "Diversity and Variety of Hay'a Books in Islam"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. دورۀ یازدهم، شمارۀ 2, No 15, 2015
  42. "Ahmad Dallal: Islam, Science and the Challenge of the History"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Iran & Islam Quarterly Book Review, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.165-168, 2015
  43. "Ghīyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī’s Al-Safīr fī al-Hayʾa: an Abridged Treatise in “Hayʾa” of Safavid Period"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini, Fateme Keyghobadi
    History of Science, Vol. 13, No 1, pp.115-131, 2015
  44. "Non-Historical Historiography of Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Scientific Heritage of Islam and Iran, Vol. سال سوم، شماره دوم, No 6, pp.94-108, 2013
  45. "A Survey of Arguments for Immobility and Centricity of the Earth in Islamic Hay'a Books"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 9, No 2, pp.45-80, 2012
  46. "Venus Transit and the Order of the Planets in Islamic Astronomy"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 10, No 1, pp.41-63, 2012
  47. "External Historiography of Science: A Review on Hessen-Grossmann Thesis"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Eexistens and knowled, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.131-152, 2010
  48. "Whiggish Historiography of Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Journal of Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 16, No 62, pp.111-140, 2010
  49. "Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī's Planetary Model in Ikhtīyārāt Muẓaffarī"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Science, Vol. 7, No 1, pp.39-54, 2009

Conference Paper

  1. "A Survey of Seydi Ali Reis’s Arguments for the Immobility and Centricity of the Earth in His Khulāsat al-Hayʾa and Their Roots in Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Works"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th Centuries), 2023
  2. "Muḥammad-Karīm Khān Kermānī and a Persian Text of Early Modern Astronomy in the 19th Century"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    9TH BIENNIAL CONVENTION of THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PERSIANATE SOCIETIES, 2023
  3. "Reception and Application of Modern Astronomy for Propaganda by Shiite Ulama in 19th and 20th Centuries"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    3rd International Prof Fuat Sezgin Symposium on the History of Science in Islam, 2023
  4. "A Survey of the Most Comprehensive Hay’a Book in Persian: Qutb al-Din Shirazi's Ikhtiyarat Muzaffari"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    INTERNATIONAL QUTB AL-DiN AL-SHiRAZI SYMPOSIUM, 2021
  5. "A Survey of the First Persian Book in Modern Astronomy in Iran: Mas‘ūd Anṣārī’s A Summary of Astronomy (1819)"
    Mohammad hossain Poorabbas, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 2021
  6. "Early-modern European astronomy and Iranian religious elites"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 2021
  7. "A Phylogenetic Appraisal of the Concept of Celestial SPHERE"
    Mohammad mahdi Sadr forati, Amir Mohammad Gamini
    26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 2021
  8. "An Islamic Reception of Darwin and Early-Modern European Astronomy by Iranian Religious Elites"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Annual Conferences of the European Academy of Religion, 2019
  9. "The Teaching of Muhammad-Reza Isfahani's A Criticism of Darwin's Philosophy in Qom"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Science Teaching in Transition in the 18th - 19th c. Islamic World, 2017
  10. "Al-Shirazi and the Non-Ptolemaic Planetary Models"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    International Conference "Astronomical Heritage of the Middle East", 2017
  11. "Isfahani vs. Darwin: A Muslim Reception of the Theory of Evolution"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 2017
  12. "Natural Philosophy and Planetary Models: Ibn al-Rushd, Ibn al-Haytham and their Followers"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Physis within Arabic Mathematical Astronomical Texts, 2016
  13. "Ancient Mechanical Instruments and the Mechanical world view: Greek, Islamic and the Modern Science"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    XXXV Scientific Instrument Symposium Istanbul, 26-30 September 2016 ‘Instruments between East and West’, 2016
  14. "Shīrāzī and his Role in the Non-Ptolemaic Model Building Process of 13th Century"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Conference on History of Science: Islam, Europe and China, 2016
  15. "The Golden Age of Science in Islamic Period and the Role of non-Ptolemaic Models"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Middle East Studies Congress, 2010
  16. "Planetary Model of al- Shīrāzī for Outer Planets"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    XXIII Conference on History of Science and Technology, 2009
  17. "pre-Darwinian Writings in Evolution"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Evaluation of Darwin's Heritage, 2020
  18. "pre Darwinian Writings in Evolution"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Evaluation of Darwin's Heritage, 2020
  19. "An Experiment of preparing a critical edition of the most comprehensive Islamic Hay'a book in Persian: Shīrāzī's Ikhtīyārāt Muẓaffarī"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Cosmology and Cosmological texts in Islamic Civilization, 2019
  20. "Imamate Ulama and Modern Astronomy in Qajar"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Modern Sciences in the Qajar Era; Najm al-Dawla, 2019
  21. "what do we talk about when we talk about the premodern science?"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    The Historiography of Science: Theory and Method, 2018
  22. "Iṣfahānī vs. Darwin Theory of Human Evolution"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    History of Natural Science in Iranian and Islamic Civilization, 2017
  23. "The first Encounters with the Theory of Evolution in Islamic Countries"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    Biological Evolution: A Debate on Scientific and Philosophical Foundations A Scientific Theory, 2017
  24. "A Survey of Theological Ideas of Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī on Darwin's Evolution Theory"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    The 5th international Congress of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: God, Human and the World, 2017
  25. "Encountering with the Theory of Evolution in Qājār Era: MohammadReza Isfahani and his "A Criticism of Darwin's Philosophy""
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    The Old Science Encountering with the New Science in Qājār Era, 2016
  26. "Shams al-Dīn al-Khafrī and the Spin of the Earth: Astronomy in Iranian Region Contemporary to Copernicus"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    International Conference on the Jamshid Kashi's Scientific Heritage, 2012
  27. "The Observational Origin of the Equant Point in Maragha School"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    International Conference on Nasir al-Din Tusi's Scientific and Philosophic Heritage, 2011
  28. "A conflict between Philosophy and Astronomy in Islamic Civilization"
    Amir Mohammad Gamini
    International Conference of Islamic Philosophy and Challenges of the Contemporary World, 2009