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Peter Pormann is Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester, where he is affiliated with the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities. He studied Classics, French, and Islamic Studies at institutions including the Sorbonne in Paris, Hamburg, and Tübingen. Pormann holds an MA in Islamic Studies from the University of Leiden and an MPhil and DPhil in Classics from Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. His research primarily concerns the transmission of the Greek medical and scientific heritage into the Islamic world, leveraging information technologies to aid its study. Specific interests include medicine and philosophy in late antique Alexandria, Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation technique, the history of mental illness, hospital provisions in tenth-century Baghdad, Arabic philosophy, and the reception of Graeco-Roman thought in the modern Middle East. Pormann investigates contacts between Muslims, Jews, and Christians writing in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, and Arabic across centuries.