Dr. Ahmed Ragab

Biography

Ahmed Ragab is a historian, physician, and documentary filmmaker. He is the founding director of the independent Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies and co-founder of Pinwheel Productions, a film production studio dedicated to supporting the stories of Black, Brown, and Queer artists. He received his medical degree from Cairo University School of Medicine in 2005 and a PhD from Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 2010. Ragab's research focuses on the history of medicine in the premodern Middle East and the Islamic world, as well as colonial and postcolonial medicine. His works include the book 'Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which examines Islamic hospitals as central institutions in medieval Muslim cities. He has also authored 'Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam' (Routledge Press, 2018) and 'Medicine, Religion, and Life of an Ottoman Sheikh' (Routledge Press, 2019), which discusses the life and impact of al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī. His current research project investigates the concept of time in medieval Islamic clinical cultures, looking at its implications for medical thought and practice. Ragab is an elected council member of the History of Science Society and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

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