Amund Bjørsnøs (b. 1977), PhD Candidate. Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. Manager of the Oslo Arabic Seminar (OsAr). See: OsAr Website.
Contact Info:
Office UiO (PAM 368): (+47) 22 85 73 83
Mobile: (+47) 944 98 618
Email: amund.bjorsnos[at]ikos.uio.no
Postal Address:
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
University of Oslo (UiO)
Postboks 1010 Blindern
0315 Oslo
Research areas and major interests:
The Arabic grammatical tradition
Islamic sciences (Law, Exegesis, Prophetic traditions, Grammar and Rhetoric)
Terminological systems and conceptual schemes in Medieval Arabic literature
Greek-Arabic translation
Natural sciences (Medicine, Mathematics, Mechanics)
Arabic philosophy and logic
Arabic Computing
Current activities:
*Re-editing (w. L. Edzard) Brünnow-Fischer's Arabische Chrestomathie (Harrassowitz, 2008)
*Developing (w. J. Braarvig) the project "Multilingualism, Linguae Francae and the Global History of Religious and Scientific Concepts", a sub-project to "Globalization of Knowledge" based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
*The Oslo Arabic Seminar (OsAr).
Main research project:
"Conceptual Transformations in Medieval Islamic Scientific Discourse: an Analysis of Technical Terminology and Metalanguage in the Usul fi l-Nahw by Ibn al-Sarraj" (PhD Project).
