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This conference will investigate the reception of heliocentricism in Islamic rationalist disciplines (maʿqūlāt) as a means of uncovering the internal workings of the Islamic scholarly tradition during the pre-modern and early modern periods.  It is a well-known fact that Muslim intellectuals overwhelmingly rejected heliocentricism, but the principles and arguments underlying this attitude remain almost entirely unexplored.For what reasons did developments in early modern European astronomy—especially in a context of the colonial encounter—fail to shape the Islamic astronomical and cosmological traditions?  Or did such developments somehow inflect Muslim texts and scholarly worldviews in ways that have gone unnoticed?  Recent investigations of the Islamic rationalist (maʿqūlī) legacy of the post-classical period (ca. 1200-1900 CE) have made it abundantly clear that, at this stage of scholarship, the first task before us is a deep dive into the arguments of the technical texts of diverse disciplines.It is only by means of a fuller understanding of the arguments of these texts that a clearer picture of the development of the tradition will emerge.  The technical details will then be used to formulate the more general theoretical frameworks for global narratives and they will also make apparent what kinds of social and political histories of ideas are relevant for rewriting the history of rationalism in Islam.Therefore, priority will be given to those papers that show how the Islamic rationalist tradition (i.e., the various disciplines of ʿilm al-hayʾa, ṭabīʿiyyāt, manṭiq, kalām, etc.) handled post-Copernican heliocentricism.  However, papers dealing with relevant aspects of the cultural, social, and political history of ideas and those pertaining to the transmitted sciences (manqūlāt) that hinge upon the rationalist legacy are also welcome.Please send a title and 500-word abstract to asad.ahmed@berkeley.edu by September 1, 2014.  The conference will be hosted by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  The date is tentatively set for March 21-22, 2015.  Participants will be partially or fully funded, depending on total costs.Plus d'infos :   http://www.academia.edu/6690125/Copernicus_in_Islam