Nahyan Fancy

Al Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Nahyan Fancy is the Al Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK. He examines the intersections of medicine, philosophy and religion in post-1200 Islamic societies. His first book, Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection was published by Routledge (2013). He is currently working on a follow-up monograph, In Ibn al-Nafīs’s Shadow, which examines eight medical commentaries produced on the Canon of Medicine and its abridgment between 1160 and 1520 CE. He has also published on and is currently working on understanding the the onset of the second plague pandemic and its impact on Middle Eastern societies from the 13^th to the 14^th centuries. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy and the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton for his work.