President: Tony Street
Secretary: Wilfrid Hodges
Web officer: Riccardo Strobino

The Commission provided a symposium on Arabic Foundations of Science for the Manchester 2013 Congress of the Division of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and it will provide a symposium at the Helsinki Congress (with scheduled speakers Mohammad Maarefi, Tony Street and Joep Lameer).

The symposium at Manchester was organised by Ahmad Hasnaoui and Wilfrid Hodges, and heard talks from the following speakers: Otman El Mernissi, Ahmad Hasnaoui, Wilfrid Hodges, Kairul Anam Che Mentri, Riccardo Strobino and Hassan Tahiri. The total cost was £850.63, which was borne by DLMPST though we had other sources of funds in reserve. (A fuller report is attached.)

Beyond organising these symposia, the Commission is still finding its feet. Obvious requirements are a membership list and a useful website; we have simply not found the time to organise these yet. We also need to do further work on funding; for Helsinki we were unable to raise support outside DLMPST. A further consideration is that in practice the Commission may have natural links with DHST, which embraces several strong groups studying Islamic science and medicine. Over a dozen people from DHST have asked to be kept in touch with the Commission.

Wilfrid Hodges
16 July 2015