In the Age of
Averroes
Arabic Thought at the End of the Classical Period
An international conference to be held at the
Warburg Institute,
Woburn Square, London
February 14 (Thursday)-16 (Saturday), 2008
Organized by Dr Peter Adamson (King's
College London)
Please contact peter.adamson@kcl.ac.uk
Funding generously provided by the Leverhulme Trust
Please note: Program subject to change
Thursday, February 14
Morning session: Chaired by Hans Daiber
10:00-10:30
Registration and welcome
10:30-11:30
Keynote Speaker: Dimitri Gutas: Philosophy in the
age of Averroes: a view from Baghdad
11:30-12:00 - Coffee break
12:00-1:00
Peter Joosse : 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi as a philosopher
and a physician: myth or
reality, topos or truth?
Afternoon session: Chaired by
Maroun Aouad
2:30-3:15
Deborah Black: Spirituality and Intentionality in Sense
Perception: Averroes and his Sources
3:15-4:00
Matteo di Giovanni: Substantial form in Averroes' Long
Commentary on the Metaphysics
4:00-4:30 - Tea break
4:30-5:15
Richard Taylor: Philosopher as kafir (Unbeliever):
Averroes' response to the charges of al-Ghazali
Friday, February 15
Morning Session: Chaired by Steven Harvey
10:15-11:00
Taneli Kukkonen: Spirit, form, substance: the psychology
of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-12:15
Resianne Fontaine: Abraham ibn Daud's cosmology and his
use of sources
12:15-1:00
Tamar Rudavsky: Astrology and human freedom in 12th
Century Jewish Philosophy: The case of Ibn Ezra and Halevi
Afternoon Session: Chaired by Amos Bertolacci
2:30-3:15
Frank Griffel: Al-Ghazali's students and immediate
followers: a portrait of the intellectual climate in Iraq and Iran during the
early 12th century
3:15-4:00
Ayman Shihadeh: A new find from early 12th century
Ash'arism: the Nihayat al-maram of Diya' al-Din al-Makki (aka al-Razi)
4:00-4:30 - Tea break
4:30-5:15
Gregor Schwarb: Qadi Shams al-Din Ja'far b. Ahmad al-Buhluli
(d. 573/1177-8) and his Kitab Mishkat al misbah fi hayat al-arwah
Saturday, February 16
Morning Session: Chaired by Charles Burnett
10:15-11:00
Anna Akasoy: What is philosophical Sufism?
11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break
11:30-12:15
Heidrun Eichner: 'Only God knows particulars in a
particular way': al-Abhari on Avicenna's epistemology
12:15-1:00
Tony Street: What drove logical studies in the age of
Averroes?
Afternoon Session: Chaired by Dag Nikolaus Hasse
2:30-3:15
Jari Kaukua: Suhrawardi on self-awareness
3:15-4:00
Sabine Schmitdke: The first generation of Suhrawardi's
commentators: Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammuna and Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri
4:00-4:30 - Tea break
4:30-5:15
Yahya Michot: Ibn Taymiyya on Ibn Rushd