Osama Eshera

Osama Eshera is Assistant Research Professor at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies and Assistant Director of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative's Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (AOCP) Phase II. He received his PhD in 2022 from McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies. His research focuses primarily on the history of philosophy in the medieval Islamic world, in both Persian and Arabic, and secondarily on the history of science. His critical editions, English translations, and commentaries of two Arabic philosophical texts by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) are forthcoming. Dr. Eshera's research articles deal with a range of topics, including a series of forthcoming essays on the commentary tradition of the first Book of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine—the book on universal principles—from the 12th century till the 14th century. To learn more about his research projects and publications, see: oeshera.gitlab.io.