Dr. Paul Hullmeine

Personal information

Paul Hullmeine is principal investigator of the project The Philosophical Correspondence of Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī, funded by the DFG (2022-2026). He studied Islamic Studies, Arabic Language, and Ancient Philosophy in Berlin, Cairo, and Munich. He was a doctoral fellow on the project "Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus" (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and worked as research assistant for the Arabic and Latin Corpus (JMU Würzburg).

Research interests

Paul Hullmeine's main research interest is the transmission of ideas from Greek Antiquity to the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages. In particular, he is concerned with premodern natural philosophy and astronomy, and investigates the way in which two of the main authorities in these fields, Aristotle and Ptolemy, were received in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. As part of his research, he also works on codicology and on transcriptions and editions of medieval Arabic texts in order to make them accessible for future research.

Selected publications

1. Hullmeine, P.: Wie sicher ist unser Bild vom Kosmos? Ptolemaios’ methodischer Einfluss auf die mittelalterliche arabische und copernicanische Tradition (under review).
2. Hullmeine, P.: Ptolemy’s Cosmology in Greek and Arabic. The Background and Legacy of the Planetary Hypotheses (in press).
3. Hullmeine, P.: Die Istanbuler Handschrift Ayasofya 4832: Meteorologische Themen und Methoden im Bagdad des neunten und zehnten Jahrhunderts. Das Mittelalter (in press).
4. Hullmeine, P.: Correcting Ptolemy and Aristotle: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ on the Almagest, On the Heavens, and Posterior Analytics, in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 32: 201-246 (2022).
5. Hullmeine, P.: Was there a Ninth Sphere in Ptolemy?, in: D. Juste, B. van Dalen, D. N. Hasse, C. Burnett (eds.), Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, pp. 79-96.
6. Hullmeine, P.: Al-Bīrūnī’s Use of Philoponus for Arguing against the Eternity of the World. Studia graeco-arabica 9: 183-201 (2019).
7. Hullmeine, P.: Al-Bīrūnī and Avicenna on the Existence of Void and the Plurality of Worlds. Oriens 47: 114-144 (2019).