Congratulations to our very own Dr. Ahmed Ragab, who was just awarded a G13 Award for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine!  These grants are highly competitive and vital to the future of our field, and represent an important accomplishment.

Ahmed’s G13 Award will support the research and writing of his current book titled Around the Clock: Time in Medieval Islamic Clinical Culture, which is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press. Around the Clock addresses the question of time as a category of medical thought and practice in the medieval Islamic world.  It investigates how physicians and patients understood time, temporality, and temporal categories from acute, chronic, and emergency conditions in understanding diseases, to times of the day in managing hospitals and market practice, to seasons, years, astronomical and astrological time to the place of time in understanding gendered bodies. His research this year is also supported by a 3-months fellowship at the Einstein Center-Chronoi (Berlin) and a fellowship from the Durham University Historical Collection (Durham, UK).

Please join us in congratulating Ahmed on this success!