George Saliba

George Saliba
Born	1939 (age 84–85) Preview warning: Page using Template:Birth year and age with unknown parameter "mf"
Nationality	American
Alma mater	American University of Beirut (B.S., M.A.) University of California, Berkeley (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.)
Known for	Historian of Astronomy, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science
Awards	History of Science Prize (1993), History of Astronomy Prize (1996), Kluge Center of the Library of Congress Distinguished Scholar (2005-6)
Scientific career
Institutions	Columbia University (1979-)
Website	www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html

George Saliba (Arabic: جورج صليبا) is an American historian who is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York, where he has been since 1979. Saliba is currently the founding director of the Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy and the Jabre-Khwarizmi Chair in the History Department.^[1]