Ahmed Ragab

Senior Advisor
Co-Founder
Postdoctoral Fellowship Advisor

Ahmed Ragab is a historian of medicine, physician and filmmaker. He is associate professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the Chair of the Medicine, Science and the Humanities Program at Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. He serves as co-editor of Osiris (one of the two flagship journals of the History of Science Society) and as the editor of the Global Histories of Medicine, Science, Race and Colonialism book series at Johns Hopkins University Press.

He received his MD from Cairo University in 2005 and PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 2011. He is the author of The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam (Routledge Press, 2018), and Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh (Routledge Press, 2019).

He is working on two new book projects. The first, co-authored with Prof. Katharine Park, is entitled Communities of Knowledge: Science in Medieval Europe and Islamdom (under contract with Princeton University Press), and traces a connected history of science across traditional geographic and temporal boundaries using objects to investigate scientific thought and practice. The second, entitled Around the Clock: Time in Medieval Islamic Clinical Culture (under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press), analyzes time as an epistemic and cultural category in medical thought and practice.

Ragab is co-founder of Pinwheel Productions, a film production company focused on supporting Black, Brown and Queer creators and stories.