Between May 8 and 10, 2025, at the Conference titled Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, hosted by the Queen Mary University of London, the following scholars from our institute presented their papers within the panel entitled "Endeavour on Exact Sciences in the Mamluk Realm".
Asst. Prof. Taha Yasin Arslan, Head of the Department of History of Technology, presented a paper entitled "Weaving User-Friendliness into Precision for the Sake of Timekeeping." Asst. Prof. Sena Aydın, Head of the Department of History of Natural Sciences, contributed with her paper "Tracing Ibn al-Haytham's Optics in the Mamluk Realm." Additionally two research assistants at our Deparment of History of Technology, Afra Akyol presented on "Encipherment Methods from Ayyubids to Mamluks" and Beyzanur Topçuoğlu, discussed "Crafting the Heavens: How to Construct the Celestial Globe in the Mamluks."
Asst. Prof. Dr. Taha Yasin Arslan, in his paper titled "Weaving User-Friendliness into Precision for the Sake of Timekeeping", discussed the development of both sensitive and easy-to-use instruments in the Mamluk period.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sena Aydın in her speech titled "Tracing Ibn al-Haytham's Optics in the Mamluk Realm" talked about the Mamluk period as an unexplored period in the history of optics and discussed how we can trace the influence of Ibn al-Haytham's optics in this region.
Res. Asst. Afra Akyol, in her talk titled "Encipherment Methods from Ayyubids to Mamluks" showed the developments in encipherment methods from Ayyubids to Mamluks with four examples.
Res. Asst. Beyzanur Topçuoğlu, in her talk titled "Crafting the Heavens: How to Construct the Celestial Globe in the Mamluks," presented the tradition of celestial globe making in Islamic civilization through the example of a construction manual of celestial globes authored by al-Marrakushi during the Mamluk period.