Author: Kaveh Niazi

Kaveh Niazi received a Ph.D in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1995) as well as a Ph.D in the history of science from Columbia University, New York, in 2011. He is the author of “Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Configuration of the Heavens” (Springer, 2014). His research interests include the history of astronomy, geology, and engineering in the Islamic era.