Sonja Brentjes is an historian of science with specialization in Islamicate societies, the late medieval Mediterranean and early modern Catholic and Protestant Europe. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her latest books include: Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 800–1700 (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (2023), co-edited with Peter Barker (associate editor) and Rana Brentjes (assistant editor).

• Novelty as Cultural Value: Places, Forms and Norms of the Claims to Novelty in Islamic Societies. / Reflections on the Role of the Exact Sciences in Islamic Culture and Education between the Twelfth and the Fifteenth Centuries / What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past? / The Mathematical Sciences in the Safavid Empire: Questions and Perspectives / The prison of categories - 'decline' and its company / Towards a new approach to medieval cross-cultural exchanges / Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-century Germany and France / Was there a shift from faith-neutral to faith-based scholarly communities in Islamic societies from the classical to the post-classical period?

Sonja Brentjes is an historian of science with specialization in Islamicate societies, the late medieval Mediterranean and early modern Catholic and Protestant Europe. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her latest books include: Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 800–1700 (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (2023), co-edited with Peter Barker (associate editor) and Rana Brentjes (assistant editor).

• Novelty as Cultural Value: Places, Forms and Norms of the Claims to Novelty in Islamic Societies. / Reflections on the Role of the Exact Sciences in Islamic Culture and Education between the Twelfth and the Fifteenth Centuries / What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past? / The Mathematical Sciences in the Safavid Empire: Questions and Perspectives / The prison of categories - 'decline' and its company / Towards a new approach to medieval cross-cultural exchanges / Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-century Germany and France / Was there a shift from faith-neutral to faith-based scholarly communities in Islamic societies from the classical to the post-classical period?

Sonja Brentjes is an historian of science with specialization in Islamicate societies, the late medieval Mediterranean and early modern Catholic and Protestant Europe. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her latest books include: Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 800–1700 (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (2023), co-edited with Peter Barker (associate editor) and Rana Brentjes (assistant editor).

• Novelty as Cultural Value: Places, Forms and Norms of the Claims to Novelty in Islamic Societies. / Reflections on the Role of the Exact Sciences in Islamic Culture and Education between the Twelfth and the Fifteenth Centuries / What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past? / The Mathematical Sciences in the Safavid Empire: Questions and Perspectives / The prison of categories - 'decline' and its company / Towards a new approach to medieval cross-cultural exchanges / Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-century Germany and France / Was there a shift from faith-neutral to faith-based scholarly communities in Islamic societies from the classical to the post-classical period?