Sarah Qidwai, Author at International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society

S4 Episode 9: Where is the global in the history of science?

In the ninth episode of season four, Dr Sarah Qidwai a historian of science at the University of York (UK) who researches science and Islam in the 19th century, and Dr Alexander Hall, an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Canada who studies the history of biology and environmental science in popular media, discuss the importance of widening the scope of the history of science and religion. (This episode was recorded in September 2024) This podcast is 30 minutes and 52 seconds long. The keywords associated with this episode are: global history history of science and religion science on popular media historiography You can learn more about Sarah and Alex’s work on global histories of science and religion, in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively, in the two edited collections which they discuss in the episode: Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (Eds), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and

S2 Episode 7: Science and Islam in the 19th Century with Dr Sarah Qidwai

In this episode, Rachael and Richard talk with Dr Sarah Qidwai, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Sarah’s work explores transnational and local perspectives on scientific disciplines during the long nineteenth century. In this episode, we discuss the focus of Sarah’s doctoral thesis, the Muslim polymath Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), and her latest project entitled ‘Scientism and Empire’ while examining how disciplines such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology operated within the confines of Empire in the 19th Century. (This episode was recorded in December 2021) This podcast is 47 minutes and 13 seconds long. The keywords associated with this episode are: To learn more about Sarah’s work, we recommend you check out: Qidwai, S (2020) “Aligarh’s Scientific Society: All But Forgotten” in Oxford of the East: Aligarh Muslim University (1920-2020). Edited by A.R Kidwai (Delhi: Viva Books), 258-274 Qidwai, S (2020), Sayyid Ahmad Khan: A Familiar

History of Science and Religion: A Historiographical Introduction

By Sarah A. Qidwai Historiography, or how historians write history, is often a tricky topic to pin down. Methods are often developed over time, or sometimes they seemingly appear out of nowhere. To that end, the field of the history of science and religion in the academic context has its own historiographical past. Understanding and engaging with scholars in the field is often difficult without this historiographical context.