HDS professor Ahmed Ragab was a medical student at Cairo University in the early 2000s when he first walked into Egypt's 700-year-old Mansuri Hospital.... Read more about History as Compassion

On March 29, Ahmed Ragab delivered the lecture inaugurating his appointment as the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at HDS.... Read more about Slideshow: Lecture to Inaugurate the Watson Professorship of Science and Religion

Ahmed Ragab, physician, historian, and scholar of the medieval and modern Middle East, has been named the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2011.

Ragab was a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School for the 2009 fall semester, and since 2008 he has been a postdoctoral fellow then lecturer in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. He holds a medical degree from Cairo University and a doctorate in the history of science from the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

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On April 24, 2007, Lenn E. Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University presented this talk on Judaism and science.... Read more about Video: Science, Beauty, and God: Reflections on the Meanings of Scientific Discovery