Juliane Müller is a research associate in Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen since 2020. She received her MA and PhD in Arabic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich. She also holds an MA in Brazilian Studies from the University of Lisbon and worked with the University of Lisbon’s ERC-project RUTTER.

• Arabic manuscripts and text editing
• History of Arabo-Islamic sciences 
• Arabic writing culture in Brazil and West Africa

WS 23/24 Ü Arabic medicine

Books

Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī:  كتاب حلّ مشكلات الشذور  / Kitāb Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr. Ed. Juliane Müller. Berlin: De Gruyter / Beirut: Dār al-Fārābī, 2023 (Bibliotheca Islamica 62). [In press] https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110779356/html

Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Edition, Übersetzung und Kontext. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017 (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 101). https://brill.com/view/title/34817

Zwei arabische Dialoge zur Alchemie. Die Unterredung des Aristoteles mit dem Inder Yūhīn und das Lehrgespräch der Alchemisten Qaydarūs und Mītāwus mit dem König Marqūnus. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2012 (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 310). E-Book: Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/566439

Articles

Indian Ocean Arab Navigation Studies Towards a Global Perspective: Annotated Bibliography and Research Roadmap. RUTTER Technical Notes 2, version 5.1. Lisbon: ERC RUTTER Project, University of Lisbon, 2024 (with Juan Acevedo and Inês Bénard). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10462161

Planets in Alchemy. Commentaries and Glosses on the Opening Verses of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs’s Shudhūr al-dhahab, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 22, 2022, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.9570

The Alchemical Symbols in the Manuscripts of ‘The Mirror of Wonders’ (Mirʾāt al-ʿajāʾib). In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 75/2, Special Issue: Alchemy in the Islamicate World, 2021, 685–722. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2020-0027

The Identity, Life and Works of the Alchemist Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (Identidad, vida y obra del alquimista Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs). In: al-Qanṭara, 41ii (2020), 373–408 (with Regula Forster). https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2020.010

Manuscritos afro-islâmicos do Brasil oitocentista: os amuletos árabes da coleção Nina Rodrigues. In: Afro-Ásia, 61, 2020, 78–117. https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/36595

Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020, Bd. 2020-04, 148–150.

Al-Jildakī. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020, Bd. 2020-01, 92–93 (with Regula Forster).

Reviews

Savage-Smith, Emilie: A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Volume I: Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ), 108, 4-5, 2013, 295f.

Muwaffaq bin ʿAlī al-Hirawī: Abū Manṣūr: Kitāb al-Abniya ʿan ḥaqāʾiq al-adwiya. („Grundlagen des wahren Charakters der Heilpflanzen“), Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2010. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (OLZ) 107, 4-5, 2012, 286–288.

Lectures

African Arabic manuscripts from 19th-century Brazil: The Islamic amulets of the Nina Rodrigues collection / Manuscritos afro-árabes do Brasil oitocentista: os amuletos islâmicos da coleção Nina Rodrigues, 30.09.2021, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto (online).

From manuscript to edited text: Purpose and methods of critical editions, 23.06.2021, Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture: An Intensive Course, Qatar National Library (مكتبة قطر الوطنية), Doha (online).

Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī’s Kitāb al-Aghdhiya wa-l-ashriba – Methods of Text Editing and Study, 05.02.2019, Institute for the History of Science, University of Tehran (دانشگاه تهران).

The alchemical symbols of the “Mirror of Wonders” (Mirʾāt al-ʿajāʾib), 29.09.2018, Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate World, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha.

An Arabic medical encyclopedia on Food and Drink: Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī’s Kitāb al-Aghdhiya wa-l-ashriba, 12.10.2016, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Symbols and substrates: Multiple layers of reference in Arabic alchemical sources, 06.07.2011, Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Southampton.