Journal for the History of Science

Main Subjects = History of Science in Islamic Period

An epistemological comparison of astrological beliefs in Pliny’s Natural History and Persian ʿajāʾib literature.

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 27 April 2026

10.22059/jihs.2026.411120.371877

Ali Vaezi Moghadam; Ali Jahanshahi Afshar; Najmeh Hosseini Sorouri

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Content Analysis of the Treatise Ma ͑ ānī kitāb Īrun al-mīḫānīqī fī raf ͑ al-aṧyāʾal-thaqīla bi-al-quwwa al-yasīra by Abū Ḥātim Muẓaffar al-Isfizārī

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 24 May 2026

10.22059/jihs.2026.414041.371900

mohammad salehzadeh; Iraj Nikseresht

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An Introduction to the Treatise al-Ḥātimiyya on Determining the Meridian Line and the Qibla Direction by Mullā Muẓaffar Gunābādī

Volume 24, Issue 1, September 2026, Pages 3-32

10.22059/jihs.2026.412513.371896

Hosein Ramezani-Aval

Semantic Shifts in the Definition of Modality: A Study of Avicennan Logicians' Perspectives

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 37-58

10.22059/jihs.2025.396887.371828

Alireza Darabi

Rejecting the Distinction between Categorical and Conditional

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 59-79

10.22059/jihs.2025.396935.371831

Asadollah Fallahi

Ibn Kushna al-Qumī’s Treatise in Refutation of Passages from al-Karajī’s al-Kāfī fī al-ḥisāb

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 81-109

10.22059/jihs.2025.401845.371838

Narges Assarzadegan; Hanif Ghalandari

A New Discovered Method for Determining the Qibla Direction of Isfahan Attributed to Muḥammad Bāqir Yazdī

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 111-130

10.22059/jihs.2025.401539.371836

Zahra Pournajaf; Amir-Mohammad Gamini

Determination of Obliquity of the Ecliptic by Observing Solstices in Medieval Islam

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 173-202

10.22059/jihs.2025.392094.371822

Younes Karamati

Qanat, A Symbol of Science in the Ancient World

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 205-232

10.22059/jihs.2025.401921.371839

Akbar khodavirdizadeh

Allama Afḍal al-Dīn Khunajī: A Physician in the Role of a Judge (1194–1248)

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 235-244

10.22059/jihs.2025.403279.371845

Ali Khaleghi

Book Review. Sonja Brentjes. Historiography of the history of science in Islamicate societies: Practices, concepts, questions

Volume 23, Issue 1, September 2025, Pages 315-325

10.22059/jihs.2025.404003.371851

narges Assarzadegn

Double-Mirror Method for Rangefinding: A Scientific Development by al-Khāzinī

Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2025, Pages 91-104

10.22059/jihs.2025.406070.371861

Reza Kiani Movahed

An Observational History up to the 10th Century AD as Reflected in the Great Hakimi Zij and and Its Parallel Texts

Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2025, Pages 163-198

10.22059/jihs.2026.410032.371873

Younes Karamati

From Marvel to Automation: A Re-reading of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanisms and Their Conceptual Links to Contemporary Robotics

Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2025, Pages 201-222

10.22059/jihs.2026.404875.371858

Hanieh Hashemi; Abdulhossein Hashemi

The Role of Rational and Empirical Sciences in Otherworldly Happiness in al-Ghazālī’s Thought

Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2025, Pages 225-248

10.22059/jihs.2026.409831.371871

Mohsen Ghasemi

Wonders in the Natures, Wonders in the Margins: Newly Discovered Annotations by Shams al-Dīn al-Kīshī in Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 1-14

10.22059/jihs.2024.383163.371804

Hamed Arezaei

New Findings from the Life and Works of Mawlānā Ziyn al-Dīn ‘Alī Munajjim Lārī Mentioned in the Travelogue of Pietro Della Valle

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 15-40

10.22059/jihs.2025.382003.371803

Mehran Rezaie

Ancient Cosmology among the Theologians (Mutakallimūn) and People of Religion: Introduction, Critical Edition, and Notes to “A Treatise on the Differences Among Scholars Regarding the States of the Heavens and the Earth”

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 47-107

10.22059/jihs.2025.388852.371815

Mohammad Javad Esmaeili

The Position of Painting Based on the Analysis of the Foundations of the Classification of Sciences and Arts in Islamic Civilization

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 109-132

10.22059/jihs.2025.390902.371819

Maryam Keshmiri

About the Works of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Karābīsī, A Mathematician of the 4th AH/ 10th AD

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 133-181

10.22059/jihs.2025.390440.371817

narges Assarzadegn

Book Review: Roshdi Rashed (2025). L’optique dans l’Inde islamique au XVIIe siècle: Ibn Ṣāliḥ, Sur les miroirs ardents paraboliques

Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2025, Pages 183-186

10.22059/jihs.2025.399583.371835

Amir-Mohammad Gamini

Khārijī proposition: Unconditioned vs. Conditioned-not

Volume 22, Issue 1, September 2024, Pages 1-30

10.22059/jihs.2024.376373.371791

Asadollah Fallahi

Investigation of Treating Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) from the Perspective of the Akhlāṭī Medicine System in the History of Iran

Volume 22, Issue 1, September 2024, Pages 31-46

10.22059/jihs.2024.375319.371788

mohammad ali parghoo; javad alipoor silab

The Methods of Teaching Mathematical Sciences and its Effectiveness from the Methods of Teaching Religious Sciences in Islamic Civilization in 3rd-5th AH

Volume 22, Issue 1, September 2024, Pages 47-67

10.22059/jihs.2024.381988.371802

Tahereh Sharifzadeh; Ahmed Badkoubeh Hazaveh; Abdullah Farrhi; hanif ghalandari

A Reflection on the Concept of Place from the Perspective of Ibn Bājja (Avempace) and an Examination of the Influence of Plato and Aristotle on It

Volume 22, Issue 1, September 2024, Pages 69-86

10.22059/jihs.2024.380786.371799

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