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        Date: 2024-07-01 11:08:18+00:00
        From: Brooker, Phillip <P.D.Brooker@liverpool.ac.uk>
        Subject: Funded PhD Scholarship at Liverpool (" Islamicate Scholars, Algorithms and the Making of the Contemporary World: A Decolonial Study of Mathematical, Scientific and Technological Practice in the Islamic Golden Age")

Hi all

We have a new PhD Opportunity at the University of Liverpool, starting
September/October 2024:

<https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/islamicate-scholars-algorithms-and-the-
making-of-the-contemporary-world-a-decolonial-study-of-mathematical-scientific-
and-technological-practice-in-the-islamic-golden-age/?p172975>.

Working in partnership with the World Museum Liverpool across their
science and global cultures collection, the aim of the study is to
recover the algorithmic methods developed during the Islamic Golden Age
(in dialogue with a variety of Eastern traditions, primarily in India
and China, as well those of Greece) through a series of re-enactments in
the field of mathematics (arithmetic and algebra), technology (the
astrolabe) and astronomy (via the systematic collection of data in the
production of star charts). The project is an attempt to rethink
computation, and by extension contemporary AI, ethnomethodologically but
also in explicitly decolonial terms.

  The available funding can cover an MA/MRes as well as 3 years of PhD
funding, so undergraduates with a broad background or desire to learn in
the domains relevant to the study can apply. The PhD is also open to
international students. A lot of support will also be made available to
the successful candidate and the underlying mathematics, while
groundbreaking at the time, is (relatively) elementary and knowledge of
classical Arabic is not a pre-requisite – critical editions of all of
the texts are available in translation.

  While the timescale is quite tight (with the application deadline
being Friday 19th July), if any of your students are interested and want
to know more, please do feel free to direct them to myself
(p.d.brooker@liverpool.ac.uk) or Michael Mair (mdmair@liverpool.ac.uk)
and we’ll happily answer any questions the students may have.

Many thanks!
Phil Brooker



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