MA (University College London); PhD (Warburg Institute)

Project Researcher

Personal Profile

Bink Hallum studied Archaeology and Classical Studies at University of Wales Lampeter, and Classics at University College London. He then studied Arabic in Cairo, Damascus and London before gaining his PhD from the Warburg Institute with a thesis on Zosimus Arabus: The Reception of Zosimos of Panopolis in the Arabic/Islamic World.

Research

Bink Hallum is interested in the initial reception of Greek literature in the Arabic-speaking world and its subsequent impact on medieval Mediterranean civilisation. His research is particularly focused on the transfer of knowledge concerning the occult sciences (alchemy, astrology, magic, etc) from Greek into Arabic and then into Latin.

He is currently part of a research team under the supervision of Simon Swain and Peter E Pormann working on the Warwick Epidemics, a Wellcome Trust-funded edition and translation of the Arabic version of the first two books of Galen’s commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics.

Recent Publications

• ‘Essay Review: The Tome of Images: an Arabic Compilation of Texts by Zosimos of Panopolis and a Source of the Turba Philosophorum’, Ambix 56.1 (2009), 76–88
  
• 29 entries mostly on alchemists in Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs, ed. P.T. Keyser and G.L. Irby-Massie (Routledge, 2008)