Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Name Anna Ayşe Akasoy
Address 3207 Juniper Lane Falls Church VA 22044 USA 914-328-0974 [email protected]; [email protected]
Present occupation Professor of Islamic Intellectual History The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Academic education
1996-2005 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt Oriental Studies, Philosophy, History
2005 PhD (summa cum laude) Title of thesis: Die Sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sabʿīn. Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit
2002 MA Title of thesis: Das poetische Werk des Fauzī al-Maʿlūf
Scholarships, fellowships and employment
Since Sept. 2015: Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Classics and Oriental Studies, Hunter College; Graduate School, MA Middle Eastern Studies, MA in Liberal Studies, PhD programs in Comparative Literature and History
Jan. 2013 – Aug. 2015: Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Classics and Oriental Studies, Hunter College; Graduate School, MA Middle Eastern Studies and MA in Liberal Studies
Jan. 2012 – Dec 2012: Visiting Research Fellow at the International Consortium, ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe’, Ruhr University Bochum
Jan. 2009 – Dec 2011: British Academy postdoctoral fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2008: Departmental lecturer in Islamic history and thought, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
2005 – Sept. 2007: Research assistant, Warburg Institute, London, project: ‘Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions (8th-17th Centuries)’ sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
2006 – 2008: Member of an interdisciplinary network for research on historical disasters (‘Historische Erforschung von Katastrophen in kulturvergleichender Perspektive’) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
2005/2006: Participation in the project ‘Universal Geometry’, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (Transcription and translation of Arabic and Persian inscriptions on astrolabes)
2005: Research assistant, University of Frankfurt, History Department (July)
2005: Herzog-Ernst-Fellowship, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gotha, Germany (May – June)
2005: Frances A. Yates Fellowship, Warburg Institute, London (January – April)
2003: Scholarship for doctoral students, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Yale University (February – July)
2002 – 2004: Research fellow, University of Frankfurt, Research project on the court of Frederick II (History Department)
1999 – 2002: Research assistant, University of Frankfurt, Research project on the court of Frederick II (History Department)
1996 – 2002: Scholarship for undergraduate students, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
Research, conference, publication and travel grants
2015: Presidential travel grant, Hunter College, to conduct research at libraries and in museums in London and Berlin
2012: Grants of the rector’s office of the University of Bochum to organize an international summer school for graduate students on ‘Eurasian religions in contact’
2008: Grants of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the British Academy, the Institute of Philosophy (School of Advanced Study, London) and the Cassamarca Foundation for the conference
2 Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (held in June 2008 at the Warburg Institute)
Grant of the Barakat Trust for the publication of the proceedings of the conference on Rashīd al-Dīn (held in November 2007 at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and the Warburg Institute)
Grant of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation for the publication of the results of the Islam and Tibet project
2007: Grant of the British Academy for participating in the fourth conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Amsterdam, June 2007)
2006: Grants of the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust for the conference Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions (held in November 2006 at the Warburg Institute)
2004: Research, Frankfurt University grant for international cooperation, Haifa University (August)
Research, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Biblioteca Islámica / Universidad Complutense, Madrid (February-June)
2003: Visiting doctoral student, Yale University, New Haven, sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service
Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by a project on Christian Arabic manuscripts at Amsterdam University, Paul Sbath Collection, Aleppo, Syria (September)
Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation Qarawiyin Library, Fez, Morocco (September)
2002: Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul (February-March)
2001: Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul (February-March, August-September)
2000: Visiting scholar, German Institute for Oriental Studies, Beirut, sponsored by German National Academic Foundation (February-March, July-October)
1999: Internship, library of the German Institute for Oriental Studies, Beirut, sponsored by German National Academic Foundation (January-February, July-October)
Teaching Undergraduate teaching evaluations available upon request.
3 2018 Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Honors College (‘The Islamic City in History, Architecture and Literature) Graduate Center, PhD Comparative Literature (‘Turkish Immigrants in German Literature and Film’)
2017 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Arabian Nights: East and West’; ‘Muslim Spain’) Graduate Center, MA Liberal Studies (‘From Alexander to Mohammed: Introduction to the Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean’), PhD History (‘Islamic Rulership: The Caliphate in Theory and Practice’)
2016 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Literature and Culture of Muslim Spain’; ‘Literatures of the Islamic World’) Graduate Center, PhD Comparative Literature (‘The Arabian Nights’, ‘Travel Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic World’)
2015 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Arabian Nights: East and West’), Thomas Hunter Honors Program (‘The Islamic City in Architecture, History and Literature’) Graduate Center, PhD History (‘Violence in Islamic History’), MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Approaches to the Study of the Middle East’)
2014 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘Islamic Civilization’, ‘The Classical Heritage of the Middle East and Asia’) Graduate Center, MA Liberal Studies (‘Renaissance Culture’), MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Approaches to the Study of the Middle East’)
2013 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Qur’an: an Introduction’, ‘Literatures of the Islamic World’); Department of Philosophy (‘Medieval Philosophy’) Graduate Center, MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Muslims and non-Muslims’)
2011 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute, tutorial course (Arabic philosophy and the Qur’an)
2009/10 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Islamic Religion’; third-year undergraduate course (modern Islam and Sufism) • ‘Islamic History until 1500’; undergraduate course • ‘Islamic Philosophy’; undergraduate course
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’; fourth-year undergraduate course
4 School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions
2008/09 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Introduction to Islamic History’ (early Islamic history); undergraduate first year • ‘Introduction to Islamic Religion’; undergraduate first year • ‘Islamic History until 1500’ (early Islamic history); third-year undergraduate, first-year graduate • ‘The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement’; undergraduate tutorial course • ‘Muslims and non-Muslims’; undergraduate tutorial course • ‘The Islamic Conquests (Jihad and Muslim Spain)’; undergraduate tutorial course • Classical Arabic texts; reading class for MPhil students
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies • ‘Approaches to the Qur’an’; second-year undergraduate • ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’; fourth-year undergraduate
Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, MA programme Islamic Studies, ‘Sufism and Islam: Faith, Reason and Revelation’
School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions
2007/08 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Introduction to Islamic History’; first-year undergraduate • ‘Islamic History until 1500’; third-year undergraduate and first-year graduate • ‘Islamic Religion’; third-year undergraduate course (Qur’an and Islamic law) • Classical Arabic texts; reading class for MPhil students
2006/07 University of Cambridge, Oriental Faculty, fourth-year undergraduate course, ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’
Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, MA programme Islamic Studies, ‘Sufism and Islam: Faith, Reason and Revelation’
School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions
Warburg Institute, MA option, ‘The Image of the Turk in Renaissance Literature: the Age of Mehmed II’
5 Warburg Institute, Arabic reading group
Die Wolfsburg, Catholic Academy, seminar on Faith and Reason in Islam and Christianity (adult education)
Sutton Trust Summer School, Cambridge University (Theology & Religious Studies), class on ‘The God of Mysticism: Sufism’
2004/05 University of Frankfurt, Department of History, Interdisciplinary class on Frederick II’s crusade
2003/04 University of Frankfurt, Oriental Institute, Class on Arabic newspapers
Supervising, Examining, Admission
2017 Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD Comparative Literature, supervision and examination PhD students
2015 Graduate Center, CUNY, supervision of final papers for MA in Liberal Studies
2014 Graduate Center, CUNY, supervision of final paper for MA Middle Eastern Studies
2013 Central European University, Budapest, external examiner, MA thesis
2007-2011 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute, Supervision of graduate students, admission of applicants for Arabic, examination of undergraduate and graduate students
Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, MA programme Islamic Studies, supervision and examining of MA theses
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, External examiner, MPhil theses
2007 University of Granada, European examiner, PhD thesis
2006 University of Cambridge, Oriental Faculty, External examiner, MPhil thesis
Training
2007 University of London, School of Advanced Studies, Masters teaching seminar
Birkbeck College, Fundamentals of teaching 6
Professional services
2018 Evaluation of research proposal, KU Leuven (University of Leuven) Evaluation of research proposal, Wellcome Trust (UK) Promotion and tenure evaluation, Rutgers University Manuscript review, Library of Arabic Literature (NYU Press)
2017 Promotion evaluation, American University of Kuwait Promotion and tenure evaluation, Yale University Evaluation of applications for European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) fellowship programme
2016 Evaluation of applications for European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) fellowship programme Tenure evaluation, University of Freiburg
2015 Evaluation of applications for European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) fellowship programme
2011 Advisory committee for the development of a degree in Islamic Studies, University of Frankfurt
Editorial boards: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science (Brill); The Maghreb Review; Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos (Sección Árabe-Islam); Entangled Religions
Reviews of articles for: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Viator, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Journal of Islamic Studies
Membership in professional organisations: Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.) (since 2002)
2015-current: Faculty member in Student Election Review Committee (Hunter College)
Languages
Native language: German
Fluent in: English, Spanish
Reading knowledge: Arabic
7 Advanced reading knowledge: Turkish, Persian, Latin, French, Ottoman
Advanced conversational ability: Arabic
Limited conversational ability: French, Persian, Turkish
Limited reading knowledge: Italian, Portuguese, Catalan
Limited conversational and reading ability: Hebrew
8 Publications
Books
Al-Kindī, Die Erste Philosophie. Arabisch-Deutsch. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Anna Akasoy (Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters; Freiburg: Herder, 2011).
Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit. Die Sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sabʿīn (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science; Texts and Studies, 59; Leiden: Brill, 2006). [Review article by Jules Janssens in: Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 49 (2007), 51-66; reviews in Journal of Oriental and African Studies (Athens) 15 (2006), 335‒6 and Bulletin d’Études Orientales 56 (2004-2005; Damascus, 2006), 357-8]
The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics. Edited by Anna A. Akasoy and Alexander Fidora with an Introduction and Annotated English translation by Douglas M. Dunlop (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, 17; Leiden: Brill, 2005). [Reviews in: Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofia 23 (2006), 279-80; Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 13 (2006), 239-40; American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81/3 (2007), 507-509; Revista da Faculdade de Letras – Série de Filosofia (Porto, Portugal) 23-24 (2006-2007), 281-3; Polylog 17 (2007), 125-7; Plekos 10 (2008), 33-38; Journal of the American Oriental Society 128/2 (2008), 382-384]
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Bāzyār: Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil. Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9. Jahrhundert. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und eingeleitet von Anna Akasoy und Stefan Georges (Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 11; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005). [Reviews in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 62 (2006), 725-6; Scriptorium 60/2 (2006), 224-5; Historische Zeitschrift 285 (2007), 724-5; Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (2008), 434-6; Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 159 (2009), 173-5]
Ibn Sabʿīn: Die Sizilianischen Fragen. Arabisch-Deutsch. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Anna Akasoy (Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters, 2; Freiburg: Herder, 2005). [Reviews in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16/12/2005, 43; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22/04/2006; Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 53 (2006), 483‒5; Philosophisches Jahrbuch 114 (2007), 162-4; Theologische Revue 103 (2007), 142]
Arabische Romantik im Exil. Das poetische Werk des Fauzī al-Maʿlūf (literaturen im kontext, 11; Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002). [Review in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 95 (2005), 451–2]
In Preparation
Western Pride, Eastern Prejudice. Geography, Identity and Intellectual History in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean (monograph in preparation)
9 Kings with Wings. A Cultural History of Falconry in the Premodern Middle East (monograph in preparation) Edited Volumes
Rashīd al-Dīn, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran, Edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 24; London: The Warburg Institute, 2013).
Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Edited with Guido Giglioni (International Archives of the History of Ideas, 211; Dordrecht: Springer, 2013).
Islam and Tibet. Interactions along the Musk Routes, Edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Farnham, 2010). [Reviews in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 74 (2011), 508-9; American Historical Review 116/3 (2011), 917; Tibet Journal 36/1 (2011), 91; Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines 43-4 (2013) http://emscat.revues.org/2183; Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 39 (2012), 501-10; Asian Highlands Perspectives 28 (2013), 343-7 http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/review-islam-and- tibet.pdf]
Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Translation and Transmission in Honour of Hans Daiber. Edited with Wim Raven (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 75; Leiden: Brill, 2008). [Reviews in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies (Athens) 17 (2008), 287‒9; Journal of Islamic Studies 21 (2010), 124-6; Sehepunkte July 2010]
Astro-medicine: Medicine and Astrology, East and West. Edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Micrologus Library, 25; Florence: Sismel, 2008). [Reviews in Cahiers de recherché médiévales et humanists (2008); Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010), 120-121; Medical History 54 (2010), 552-553]
Islamic Crosspollinations. Interactions in the Medieval Middle East. Edited with James Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann (Oxford, 2007). [Reviews in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, third series 19/2 (2009), 258-60; Journal of Islamic Studies 20 (2009), 266-9]
Forthcoming
Religious Secrecy as Contact. Secrets as Promoters of Religious Dynamics, edited with L. Di Giacinto, G. Halkias, P. Reichling, K.M. Stünkel, forthcoming in the Brill series Dynamics in the History of Religions
Articles
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Medieval Islamic Philosophy
‘Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical Problems’, in Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen and Bryan S. Turner (eds), Regimes of Happiness. Comparative and Historical Studies (New York, 2019), 171-185.
‘Al-Ghazālī’s Veil Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft’, in Frank Griffel (ed.), Islam and Rationality. The Impact of al-Ghazālī, vol. 2 (Leiden, 2015), 142-167.
‘The Structure and Methods of the Sciences’, in Richard C. Taylor and Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (eds), The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (with Alexander Fidora) (New York, 2015), 105-114.
‘Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy: Latin and Byzantine Perspectives’, in Anna Contadini and Claire Norton (eds), The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (Farnham, 2013), 245-256.
‘Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate, and its Philosophical Implications’, in Anna Akasoy and Guido Giglioni (eds), Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath (Dordrecht, 2013), 321-347.
‘Al-Ghazālī, Ramon Llull and Religionswissenschaft’, in The Muslim World 102 (2012), 33-59.
‘What is Philosophical Sufism?’, in Peter Adamson (ed.), In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century (London, 2011), 229-249.
‘Niffarī: a Sufi Mahdi of the Fourth/Tenth Century?’, in Wolfram Brandes and Felicitas Schmieder (eds), Antichrist. Konstruktionen von Feindbildern (Berlin, 2010), 39-67.
‘6 Raǧab 707 – 17 Raǧab 708. Das Jahr 1308 aus islamischer Perspektive’, in Andreas Speer and David Wirmer (eds), 1308. Eine Topographie historischer Gleichzeitigkeit (Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 35; Berlin, New York, 2010), 923-935.
‘Ibn Sabʿīn and Raimundus Lullus – The Question of the Arabic Sources of Lullus’ Logic Revisited’, in Anna Akasoy and Wim Raven (eds), Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages (Leiden, 2008), 433- 458. (with Alexander Fidora)
‘Arabic Physiognomy as a Link between Medicine and Astrology’, in Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Astro-medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (Florence, 2008), 119-141.
‘Glaube und Vernunft im Islam’, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 26-27 (2007), 10-17.
11 ‘Die lateinischen Übersetzungen von Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindīs Risāla fī ‘l-ʿaql’, in M.C. Pacheco and J.F. Meirinhos (eds), Intellect et imagination dans la Philosophie Médiévale / Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy / Intelecto e imaginação na Filosofia Medieval. Actes du XIe Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.), Porto, du 26 au 31 août 2002 (Rencontres de philosophie médiévale, 11; Turnhout, 2006), I, 689-701.
‘A Baghdad Court in Constantinople/Istanbul’, in Das Mittelalter 10 (2005), 136-147.
‘Die Adaptation byzantinischen Wissens am Osmanenhof nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels’, in Carsten Kretschmann, Henning Pahl and Peter Scholz (eds), Wissen in der Krise, Institutionen des Wissens im gesellschaftlichen Wandel (Berlin, 2004), 43-56. [Review in Historische Literatur 3/4 (2005), 399-401; French translation in Trivium. Revue franco- allemande de sciences humaines et sociales 8 (2011)]
The Intellectual History of the Muslim West
‘Gender and the Poetics of God’s Alterity in Andalusi Mysticism’, in Megan Moore (ed.), Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019), 97-117.
‘Al-Andalus and the Andalusis in the Islamic Apocalyptic Tradition’, in Rebekka Voß, Felicitas Schmieder and Wolfram Brandes (eds), Peoples of the Apocalypse. Eschatological Beliefs and Political Scenarios (Berlin, 2016), 213-223.
‘Are we Speaking the Same Language? Translating Truths across Intellectual Traditions in al- Andalus’, in Knut-Martin Stünkel and Görge Hasselhoff (eds), Transcending Words. The Language of Religious Contact between Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Premodern Times (Bochum, 2015), 43-54.
‘Andalusi Exceptionalism: the Example of ‘Philosophical Sufism’ and the Significance of 1212’, in Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 4/1 (2012), 113-117.
‘Al-Andalus in Exile. Identity and Diversity in Islamic Intellectual History’, in Matthias Tischler and Alexander Fidora (eds), Christlicher Norden, Muslimischer Süden. Ansprüche und Wirklichkeiten von Christen, Juden und Muslimen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter (Münster, 2011), 329-343.
‘Ibn Sīnā in the Arab West: the Testimony of an Andalusian Sufi’, in Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 21 (2010), 287-312.
‘The al-Ghazālī Conspiracy. Reflections on the Inter-Mediterranean Dimension of Islamic Intellectual History’, in Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.), Avicenna and his Legacy. A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (Turnhout, 2009), 117-142.
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‘Ibn Sabʿīn’s Sicilian Questions: the Text, its Sources, and their Historical Context’, al-Qanṭara 29/1 (2008), 115-146.
‘The Muḥaqqiq as Mahdi? Ibn Sabʿīn and Mahdism among Andalusian Mystics in the 12th/13th Centuries’, in Wolfram Brandes and Felicitas Schmieder (eds), Endzeiten. Eschatologie in den monotheistischen Weltreligionen (Millenium Studies; Berlin/New York, 2008), 313-337.
‘Patronage für Mystiker und Philosophen im arabischen Westen’, in Ulrich Oevermann, Johannes Süßmann and Christine Tauber (eds), Die Kunst der Mächtigen und die Macht der Kunst. Untersuchungen zu Mäzenatentum und Kulturpatronage (Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 20; Berlin, 2007), 73-87.
‘Ibn Sabʿīn, Maimónides y la emigración andalusí’, in José Luis Cantón Alonso (ed.), Maimónides y el pensamiento medieval. VIII Centenario de la muerte de Maimónides, Actas del IV Congreso Nacional de Filosofía Medieval (Cordova, 2007), 113-120.
‘Reading the Prologue of Ibn Sabʿīn’s Sicilian Questions’, in Schede medievali 45 (2007), 15-24.
‘Las Cuestiones Sicilianas de Ibn Sabʿīn. Filosofía y mística en la época almohade’, in Las artes y las ciencias en el occidente musulmán. Sabios andalusíes en las cortes mediterráneas (Murcia, 2007), 153-163.
‘Las Cuestiones Sicilianas de Ibn Sab‘īn. Filosofía y mística en la época Almohade (resumen de la tesis doctoral)’, in Aljamía 17 (2005), 92-95.
‘El Sirāŷ al-mulūk de al-Ṭurṭūšī y la antropología almohade’, in Què és l’home? Reflexions antropològiques a la Corona d’Aragó durant l’Edat Mitjana (Barcelona, 2004), 19-40.
‘Las respuestas de Ibn Sabʿīn a las ‘Cuestiones Sicilianas’ de Federico II y el oeste del Mediterraneo en la primera mitad del siglo XIII’, in Aljamía 15 (2003), 72-76.
Cultural Exchanges: Islam in Europe and Central Asia
‘Muslim-Buddhist Relations and Buddhism in Muslim Sources’, in Oxford Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (in preparation)
‘Islam and Buddhism: The Arabian Prequel?’ Entangled Religions 8 (2019), 1-32.
‘Cultural Complexity and Comparisons: What Exactly is It that We Compare’ (contribution to roundtable discussion on comparative methods), in Journal of World Philosophies 3 (Winter 2018), 80-83.
13 ‘The ‘Founding Fathers’ of Falconry according to Medieval Arabic Literature’, in Charles Burnett and Baudouin van den Abeele (eds), proceedings of the conference on falconry around the Mediterranean, NYU Abu Dhabi, 14 November (accepted)
‘Falconry in Arabic Literature: from its Beginnings to the Mid-9th Century’, in Karl-Heinz Gersmann and Oliver Grimm (eds), Raptor and Human. Falconry and Bird Symbolism throughout the Millenia on a Global Scale (Schleswig, 2018), 1769-1791.
‘Geography, History and Prophecy: Mechanisms of Integration in the Islamic Alexander Legend’, in Nikolas Jaspert and Reinhold Glei (eds), Locating Religions. Contact, Diversity and Translocality (Leiden, 2016), 16-36.
‘Iskandar the Prophet. Religious Themes in Islamic Versions of the Alexander Legend’, in Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn (eds), Globalization of Knowledge in the Mediterranean World of Post- Antiquity, 700-1500 (Burlington, 2016), 167-204.
‘The Buddha and the Straight Path. Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha: Islamic Perspectives’, in Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Rashīd al-Dīn, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran, 173-196.
‘Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography: A Survey of Arabic and Persian Sources’, in Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 17- 41.
‘Convivencia and its Discontents: Interfaith Life in al-Andalus’, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010), 489-499.
‘Alexander in the Himalayas: Competing Imperial Legacies in Medieval Islamic History and Literature’, in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 72 (2009), 1-20.
‘Zu den arabischen Vorlagen des Moamin’, in Johannes Fried and Gundula Grebner (eds), Kulturtransfer und Hofgesellschaft im Mittelalter, Wissenskultur am sizilianischen und kastilischen Hof im 13. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2008), 147-156. [printed without author’s corrections]
‘Along the Musk Routes. Exchanges between Tibet and the Islamic World’, in Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 3/2 (2007), 217-240. (with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim)
‘The Influence of the Arabic Tradition of Falconry and Hunting on European Culture’, in Anna Akasoy, James Montgomery and Peter Pormann (eds), Islamic Crosspollinations (Oxford, 2007), 46-64.
‘Georgios Gemistos Pletho and Islam’, in Proceedings of the International Congress on Plethon and His Time, Mystras, 26–29. June 2002 (Athens, 2003), 339-353.
14 ‘Hermannus Alemannus und die alia translatio der Nikomachischen Ethik’, in Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 44 (2002), 79-93. (with Alexander Fidora)
‘Plethons (1360–1452) Nomoi – Ein Beitrag zum Polytheismus in spätbyzantinischer Zeit und seiner Rezeption in der islamischen Welt’, in Alexander Fidora and Jordi Pardo Pastor (eds), Mirabilia 2, Expresar lo Divino: Lenguaje, Arte y Mística (Frankfurt, 2003), 195-204.
‘Arabische Vorlagen der lateinischen Falknereiliteratur. Wissenskonzepte im Spiegel der Übersetzungen’, Beiruter Blätter, Mitteilungen des Orient-Instituts Beirut 8–9 (2000–2001), 93- 98.
Natural Disasters in the Medieval Muslim World
‘Katastrophen und die Möglichkeiten menschlicher Einflussnahme in der mittelalterlichen islamischen Literatur: ein Überblick’, in Harald Schwillus and Hans Moser (eds), Land unter – Der Mensch vor der Katastrophe. Menschliche Wahrnehmung singulärer hydrologischer Ereignisse (Halle, 2017), 29-36.
‘Das Erdbeben, Vater Staat und der liebe Gott. Das Marmara-Erdbeben 1999’, in Gerrit J. Schenk (ed.), Katastrophen. Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel (Ostfildern, 2009), 182-190.
‘Interpreting Earthquakes in Medieval Islamic Texts’, in Christof Mauch and Christian Pfister (eds), Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History (Lanham, MD, 2009), 183-196.
‘The Man-Made Disaster: Fire in Cities in the Medieval Middle East’, Historical Social Research 32 (2007), 75-87.
‘Islamic Attitudes to Disasters in the Middle Ages: a Comparison of Earthquakes and Plagues’, The Medieval History Journal 10 (2007), 387-410. Arabic Literature
‘Paganism and Islam. Medieval Arabic Literature on Religions in West Africa’, in John Marenbon, Carlos Steel and Werner Verbeke (eds), Paganism in the Middle Ages. Threat and Fascination (Leuven, 2012), 207-238.
‘“Auf manch langhalsigem Wartturm eilte ich nachts dahin...“. Zur Kamelbeschreibung in der arabischen Dichtung’, in Ute Pietruschka and Michael P. Streck (eds), Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens (Wiesbaden, 2010), 189-205.
‘Exile and Alienation in the Poetry of the Early Southern Mahjar’, in Ottmar Ette and Friederike Pannewick (eds), ArabAmericas. Literary Entanglements of the American Hemisphere and the Arab World (Frankfurt, 2006), 83-99.
15 ‘Interpretations of Sheikh Bedreddin’s Revolt in Modern Literature’, in Journal of African and Oriental Studies (Athens) 13 (2004), 169-174. [Greek translation in Alfios, November 2005, 87-92.]
‘Aspects of History, Identity and Gender in Nedim Gürsel’s Boğazkesen’, in Journal of African and Oriental Studies (Athens) 12 (2003), 171-187.
‘Funktionalität, Ästhetik und Zoologie. Die Kamelbeschreibung bei Kaʿb b. Zuhair’, in Middle Eastern Literatures 5 (2002), 139-160.
Modern Issues
‘Religious Polemics and Imagined Secrecy. Contemporary Literary, Cinematic and Artistic Responses to Islamophobia and Religious Violence’, in A. Akasoy, L. Di Giacinto, G. Halkias, P. Reichling, K.M. Stünkel (eds), Religious Secrecy as Contact. Secrets as Promoters of Religious Dynamics (forthcoming in the Brill series Dynamics in the History of Religions)
‘Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion. Muslim Immigrants in German Cinematic Arts’, in Kristian Petersen (ed.), Reframing Muslims. New Approaches to Islam in Film (forthcoming)
‘Chick-Lit in the Hijaz. Why Historians Should Sometimes Be More Frivolous’, in Albrecht Fuess and Stefan Weninger (eds), A Life with the Prophet? Examining Hadith, Sira and Qur’an. In Honor of Wim Raven (Berlin, 2017), 45-67.
‘Die Selbstdefinition Europas während der Renaissance im Kontext der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Osmanischen Reich’, in Dirk Ansorge (ed.), Pluralistische Identität. Beobachtungen zu Herkunft und Zukunft Europas (Darmstadt, 2016), 84-102.
‘Der Islam und das religiöse Erbe Europas’, in Bernhard Kampen and Kolja Naumann (eds), Das religiöse Erbe Europas (Bonn, 2011), 32-59.
‘Der Mut des Verlierers in Zeiten der Intoleranz. Die Krise der multikulturellen Gesellschaft in der neueren englischsprachigen Literatur’, in Alexander Fidora and Bernd Springer (eds), Religiöse Toleranz im Spiegel der Literatur. Eine Idee und ihre ästhetische Gestaltung (Berlin, 2009), 299-309.
‘Zur Toleranz gegenüber dem Islam bei Lullus und Cusanus’, in Ermenegildo Bidese, Alexander Fidora and Paul Renner (eds), Ramón Llull und Nikolaus von Kues. Eine Begegnung im Zeichen der Toleranz – Raimondo Lullo e Niccolò Cusano: Un incontro nel segno della tolleranza (Turnhout, 2005), 105-124.
Lexicon articles and Book chapters
16 Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd Edition, articles ‘Allāhu akbar’, ‘Allāhumā’, ‘Amīn’, ‘Correspondence, philosophical’ (published), ‘Frederick II’, ‘Falconry’, ‘al-Ghiṭrīf’ (forthcoming)
‘Messianism’, in Heike Paul (ed.), Critical Terms in Futures Studies (Cham, 2019), 183-190.
Jorge Lirola Delgado and José Miguel Puerto (eds), Biblioteca de al-Andalus, articles ‘Ibn Sabʿīn’ in vol. v (Almería, 2007), 29-38, and ‘al-Shushtarī’ in vol. vii (Almería, 2012), 397-401.
‘Aufstieg der arabischen Welt: Kalifat und Emirate’, in Kaiser und Kalifen. Karl der Große und die Mächte am Mittelmeer um 800 (Darmstadt, 2014), 50-62.
‘Vernetzung politischen Geschehens: Islam’ and ‘Wege zum religiösen Heil: Islam’ in WBG Weltgeschichte, Johannes Fried and Ernst-Dieter Hehl (eds), vol. iii (Weltdeutungen und Weltreligionen 600-1500) (Darmstadt, 2010), 147-165 and 374-387.
‘Averroës’, in Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most and Salvatore Seltis (eds), The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, MA, 2010), 111-112.
‘The Arabic and Islamic Reception of the Nicomachean Ethics’, in Jon Miller (ed.), The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics (Cambridge, 2012), 85-106.
‘Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen und Hebräischen ins Lateinische’, in Alexander Brungs, Vilem Mudroch and Peter Schulthess (eds), Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, Die Philosophie des Mittelalters, vol. 4 13. Jahrhundert (Basle, 2017) , 130-143. (with Alexander Fidora and Charles Burnett)
‘Latin translations of Arabic philosophical texts’ and ‘Ibn Tumlus’, in Henrik Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy from 500 to 1500 (Dordrecht, 2011), 92-97 and 533-536.
‘Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World’, in Jens Timmermann and Sacha Golob (eds), The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, 2017), 153-167.
‘Muhammad’s Movement and Leadership’, in Armando Salvatore et al (eds), The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam (Chichester, 2018), 97-113.
Ten entries in Mustafa Shah (ed.), The I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization (forthcoming)
Bibliographical essay on academic works on the Qur’an in Mustafa Shah (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies (accepted)
Reviews
17 Yousef Casewit, The Mystics of al-Andalus. Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 2017). In Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming).
Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (Cambridge, MA, 2016). In Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (forthcoming).
Christopher Braun, Das Kitāb Sidrat al-muntahā des Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya. Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung eines hermetisch-allegorischen Traktats zur Alchemie (Berlin, 2016). In Journal of the American Oriental Society 139/1 (2019)
Sonja Brentjes, Taner Edis and Lutz Richter-Bernburg (eds), 1001 Distortions. How (Not) to Narrate History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Non-Western Cultures (Wurzburg, 2016). In Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81/2 (2018).
Christian Lange, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions (Cambridge, 2016). In Journal of Islamic Studies 29/2 (2018), 252-4.
Amar S. Baadj, Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya. The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th Centuries) (Leiden, 2015). In The Maghreb Review 42/3 (2017), 370-73.
Jaroslav Stetkevych, The Hunt in Arabic Poetry. From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic (Notre Dame, 2016). In International Journal of Middle East Studies 49 (2017), 352-5.
Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro and Sabine Schmidtke (eds), Ibn Hazm of Cordoba. The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Leiden, 2013). In Journal of Islamic Studies 27/3 (2016), 387-90.
Anne Marie Wolf, Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace. Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century (Notre Dame, 2014). In Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67/3 (2016), 648-9.
Richard Hitchcock, Muslim Spain Reconsidered from 711 to 1502 (Edinburgh, 2014). In The Maghreb Review 41/2 (2016), 336-8.
Ryan Szpiech, Conversion and Narrative. Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (Philadelphia, 2013). In Journal of Islamic Studies 26/3 (2015), 338-40.
Michael Ebstein, Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus. Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Ismāʿīlī Tradition (Leiden, 2014). In Journal of Islamic Studies 26/2 (2015), 212-14.
Ali Paya (ed.), The Misty Land of Ideas and the Light of Dialogue. An Anthology of Comparative Philosophy: Western & Islamic (Willesden, 2013). In Journal of Islamic Studies 26/1 (2015), 65-7.
18 Consuelo-López-Morillas, El Corán de Toledo. Edición y estudio del manuscrito 235 de la Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha (Gijón, 2011). In Journal of Qur’anic Studies 17/1 (2015), 123-7.
Florian Sobieroj, Die Responsensammlung Abū l-Qāsim al-Qušairī’s über das Sufitum (Wiesbaden, 2012). In Journal of Qur’anic Studies 16 (2014), 160-63.
Pedro Chalmeta, El zoco medieval: Contribución al estudio de la historia del mercado (Almeria, 2010). In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56 (2013), 134-6.
Asad Q. Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi and Michael Bonner (eds), The Islamic Scholarly Tradition. Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook (Leiden, 2011). In Ilayihat Studies 3/2 (2012), 290-93.
Nina Berman, German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989 (Ann Arbor, 2011). In Journal of Islamic Studies 24 (2012), 92-4.
Karl Wulff, Bedrohte Wahrheit. Der Islam und die modernen Naturwissenschaften (Norderstedt, 2010). In Isis 103/2 (2012), 391-2.
Marvine Howe, Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims (London, 2012). In Journal of Islamic Studies 25 (2014), 86-88.
Euan Cameron, Enchanted Europe. Superstition, Reason, and Religion, 1250-1750 (Oxford, 2010). In The Medieval History Journal 15/1 (2012), 222-225.
Sonja Brentjes, Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge (Farnham, 2010). In Early Science and Medicine 16 (2011), 623-625.
Lale Behzadi, Sprache und Verstehen. Al-Ǧāḥiẓ über die Vollkommenheit des Ausdrucks (Wiesbaden, 2009). In Journal of Islamic Studies 22/3 (2011), 407-409.
Suzanne L. Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship (Cambridge, 2009) In International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2001), 345-347.
Bernd Radtke, Materialien zur alten islamischen Frömmigkeit (Leiden, 2009). In Journal of Islamic Studies 22 (2011), 242-244.
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Journey to God. Sufis and Dervishes in Islam (Karachi, 2008). In Asian Ethnology 69/1 (2010), 171-173.
Cristina Álvarez and Claudia Heide (eds), Pascual de Gayangos. A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist (Edinburgh, 2008) and David James, Early Islamic Spain. The History of Ibn al-Qūṭīya (London, 2009). In Journal of Islamic Studies 21 (2010), 427-431 (published version not proof-read by author)
19 James L. Boone, Lost Civilization. The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal (London, 2009). In International Journal of the Classical Tradition 17 (2010), 142-145.
Hüseyin İlker Çinar, Die Religionen der Araber vor und in der frühislamischen Zeit (Wiesbaden, 2007). In Journal of Islamic Studies 21 (2010), 108-110.
‘Leaving al-Andalus: Paradise Lost and Diaspora Deserted in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature (review article)’ In The Maghreb Review 34 (2009), 227-234.
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale, The Arts of Intimacy. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture (New Haven, 2008). In The Maghreb Review 34 (2009), 235-241.
George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (Cambridge, 2007). In Isis 99/2 (2008), 399-400.
Stephen o’Shea, Sea of Faith. Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World (London, 2006). In British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35/2 (2008), 264-265.
Michal Biran, The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History. Between China and the Islamic World (Cambridge, 2005). In al-Masāq 20 (2008), 126-128.
Richard M. Frank, Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam, I (Aldershot, 2005). In al-Masāq 20 (2008), 130-132.
Mercedes García-Arenal, Messianism and Puritanical Reform. Mahdis of the Muslim West (Leiden, 2006). In British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35/1 (2008), 141-142.
Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine (Edinburgh, 2007). In Asian Medicine 3/2 (2007), 368-369.
Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia, vol. XVII: Translatio libri Albuzale de Medicinis simplicibus (plus other texts), eds. J. Martínez Gáquez and Michael Mc. Vaugh (Barcelona, 2004). In Early Science and Medicine 12/1 (February 2007), 94-96.
Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 5; Leiden, 2006). In Medical History 51/1 (January 2007), 129-130.
John Brooke and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (eds), Religious Values and the Rise of Science in Europe (Istanbul, 2005). In Journal of Islamic Studies 18 (2007), 112-115.
Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy (eds and trans.), Questions and Answers for Physicians. A Medieval Arabic Study Manual by ‛Abd al-‛Aziz al-Sulami (Leiden, 2004). In Medical History 50 (April 2006), 272-273.
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Keiji Yamamoto and Charles Burnett (eds and trans.), Abū Maʿshar, On Historical Astrology, The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions) (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 33-34; Leiden, 2000). In Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 154 (2004), 477-481.
Alexander Fidora, Die Wissenschaftstheorie des Dominicus Gundissalinus. Voraussetzungen und Konsequenzen des zweiten Anfangs der aristotelischen Philosophie im 12. Jahrhundert (Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 6; Berlin, 2003). In Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 11 (2004), 332-333.
Michael A. Signer and John van Engen (eds), Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe (Notre Dame, 2001). In Jewish Culture and History 7 (2004), 110-113. (with Alexander Fidora)
Robert I. Burns and Paul E. Chevedden, Negotiating Cultures. Bilingual Surrender Treatises in Muslim- Crusader Spain (The Medieval Mediterranean, 22; Leiden, 1999). In Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 153 (2003), 462-464.
Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen, Die Falkenheilkunde des
Online publications
‘Science and Medicine’, in Tamara Sonn (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online, Islamic Studies (Oxford University Press): http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195390155-0073
‘Shiism’ on Patheos. Balanced Views of Religion and Spirituality: http://www.patheos.com/Library/Shia-Islam
Contribution to the online catalogue of astrolabes at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/astrolabe/
Translations
Who was Ramon Llull? (German version) http://quisestlullus.narpan.net/eng/index_eng.html
Articles in English, Spanish and Italian into German for Brepols Publishers
21 Accompanying online databases for the New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge University Press)
22 Invited Papers
2018
‘Playing with Birds of Prey at Medieval Muslim Courts’, conference on Games and Competitions in Medieval Societies, German Historical Institute Paris, 15 February
‘High Flying, Adored. The Symbolism of Falconry at Medieval Muslim Courts’, CUNY Graduate Center, Medieval Club, 16 March
‘Martin Luther’s New Religion: Muslim Representations of the Reformation’, Biannual conference on the History of Religion, Boston College, 23-24 March
‘Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion: Muslims Immigrants in German Cinematic Arts’, CUNY Graduate Center, Committee for the Study of Religion, 28 March
‘Falconry at medieval Islamicate courts: open-air practice, science, and literature’, NYU Abu Dhabi, workshop “And the Sultan Needs to Know … The Production and Transmission of Scholarly Knowledge at Islamic Courts of the Postformative Period”, 29-30 April
‘Abd al-Hamid al-Katib and the Beginnings of Arabic Literature on Falconry’, Symposium in Honor of Dimitri Gutas, Yale, 10 November
‘Divination, Astrology and Prophecy: Miraculous Epistemologies in Islamic Alexander Legends’, Lecture Georgetown University, 13 November
‘Paganism in Medieval Arabic Literature’, Conference on Religious Polemics, University of Bielefeld, 29 November-1 December
2017
‘Kings with Wings. A Cultural History of Falconry in the Middle East’, lecture Barnard College, 17 February
‘Teaching Islamic history in times of violence’, CUNY diversity and inclusion conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 31 March
‘Imaginary spaces of devotion in Andalusi mystical poetry’, Mediterranean Seminar, University of Boulder, 21-22 April
‘The Protestant Reformation and Islam’, Conference on the Reformation and Human Rights, CUNY Graduate Center, 3 May
Round table on Orientalism, Conference on The Challenge of State Building the Middle East and North Africa, The Graduate Institute Geneva, 27-28 September
‘Mishkat al-anwar’, Al-Ghazali workshop, NYU Abu Dhabi, 10 December
‘Tolerance’, Workshop on concepts in religious dialogue and public round table, University of Erlangen, 14 December
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‘Disasters in Medieval Islamic History: Lessons and Challenges of Comparative Approaches’, Workshop on disasters in early modern Islamic history, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn (Germany), 10-11 October
‘The Classical Heritage of the Middle East and Asia. What Constitutes a Heritage?’, Conference on global intellectual history, Erfurt (Germany), 7-9 July
‘Alexander the Great and astrology in the medieval Islamic tradition’, Conference on political astrology, Bari (Italy), 8-10 June
‘Disasters and the possibilities of human influence in medieval Islamic literature: a survey’, Conference on Human Perception of Singular Hydrological Events, Halle (Germany), 21-22 March
2015
‘Who was the first to hunt with birds of prey? An expedition into visual and textual material’, Conference on falconry around the Mediterranean, NYU Abu Dhabi, 14 November
Faculty panel on ‘Reading terrorism’, graduate student conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 6 November
‘Happiness in medieval Islamicate philosophy: conceptual and practical problems’, Mellon committee for the study of religion, CUNY Graduate Center, 14 October
2014
‘Happiness in the medieval Islamic philosophical tradition’, conference on happiness, Mellon committee for the study of religion, 7 November
‘The Classical Heritage of the Middle East and Asia’, Middle East faculty seminar talk, 14 October
‘The critique of ‘world religions’ and medieval Islam’, Religion Committee, 8 October
‘Islamicate Philosophical Ethics beyond Falsafa’, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS), Fordham University, New York, 24- 26 October
‘Ibn Ṭufayl: the Reluctant Neoplatonist’, conference on Andalusi Neoplatonism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 11 June
‘Descriptions of Religion in Early Modern Muslim Geographical Writing and Travel Literature’, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, 27-29 March
‘Falconry in Early Arabic Literature’, workshop Falconry. The Origin and Importance of Falconry until 1500 AD, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, 5-6 March (via skype)
2013
‘People without a Book. Descriptions of Religions in Central Asia and West Africa in Medieval Islamic Geographical Literature’, workshop Religion Outside Text, Bochum, 6-7 June
24 ‘Are we Speaking the Same Language? Translating Truths across Intellectual Traditions in al-Andalus’, workshop Convivencia and Religious Language: Dialogue of Religions in the Iberian Peninsula, Bochum, 4-5 June
‘Spain is Different. Al-Andalus too? Distinctive and Exceptional Features of the Iberian Peninsula in Islamic History’, talk at the CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures, 22 April
‘Aufstieg der arabischen Welt: Kalifat und Emirate’, Workshop German Historical Museum, Berlin (via skype), 22 February
‘Alexander the Great in South Arabian Historiography’, Yale Arabic Colloquium, 20 February
2012
‘Where the Two Oceans Meet and Beyond: How Islamisation Transformed the Geography of the Alexander Legend’, Conference Locating Religions. Contact, Diversity and Translocality, Bochum University, 8-10 February
‘Early Islamic History’, research seminar on the formation of religions in Europe and Asia, Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions’, Bochum University, 16 April
‘The Central Eurasian Culture Complex and the Emergence of Islam’, Conference The Influence of Central Eurasian Religious Beliefs on the Cultures of the Periphery, Bochum University, 25-26 April
‘Pulp Fiction in the Hijaz. Why Historians should sometimes be more Frivolous’, Conference A Life with the Prophet? Examining Hadith, Sira and Qur’an, Marburg University, 4 May
‘The Apocalyptic Paradigm in the Historiography of al-Andalus: Medieval and Modern Perspectives’, Conference Apocalypticism – Eschatology – Messianism in a Comparative Perspective, Bochum University, 8-9 May
‘Iskandar the Prophet’, research seminar, Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions’, Bochum University, 4 June
‘Tengri, Nature or no Religion at all. Central Eurasian Native Religion in Medieval Islamic Literature’, Conference Between Imagination and Encounter: Religious Cultures in Contact in Pre-Modern Central Asia and its Borders, Bochum University, 5-6 June
‘Iskandar: Cultural Integration in and beyond Religion’, Conference Globalization of Knowledge in the Mediterranean World of Post-Antiquity, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 26-27 October
2011
‘Al-Ghazālī, Religionswissenschaft and Inter-religious Dialogue’, Workshop Al-Ghazālī and his Influence, Yale University, 9-10 December
‘Children of Caliphates: The Biographical Paradigm in the Historiography of al-Andalus’, Bar Hillel Colloquium, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 14 and 16 November
‘Andalusis and Islamic Eschatology’, Conference Völker der Endzeit. Apokalyptische Vorstellungen und politische Szenarien, University of Frankfurt, 23-25 October
‘“They Took Custody of his Body”. The Burial of Osama bin Laden and the Islamic Tradition’, Workshop Sites and Rites of Death: Spacing the Corpse in and across Religious Contexts, University of Bochum, 11-12 October
25 ‘Alexander the Great’, Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions’, University of Bochum, 31 May
‘Medieval Islamic descriptions of religions in West Africa’, workshop on paganism, Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study, 3/4 May
‘Al-Andalus between Medieval Geography and Modern Imagination’, Brown University, 9 February
2010
‘Alexander the Great: Conqueror, King, Prophet from the Atlantic to China’, Research seminar, University of Cambridge, 25 October
‘ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī’s Commentary on Niffarī’s Mawāqif’, Workshop on rationalism and mysticism in the medieval Muslim West, Oxford University, 7 October
‘Between Galut and Hijra. Jewish and Muslim Scholars in the Eastern Mediterranean’, University of Southampton, 9 February
‘Islamic History and Religious Identity in Europe’, Graduate Center, CUNY, 17 March
‘From Lhasa to Toledo and back again. Recent research on cultural exchanges in the extreme West and East of the Islamic world’, Workshop on cultural exchanges in Asia, Erlangen-Nuremberg University, 7 May
‘Between Doctrine, History and Living Practice: Ramón Llull’s Concept of Islam’, Aula Lulliana, University of Barcelona, 8 May
2009
‘Andalusian Exiles and Identities. The Experience of Jewish and Muslim Scholars in the Eastern Mediterranean (12th and 13th Centuries)’, David Patterson Seminar Series, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
‘Maimonides and Islam’, Chabad Society, Oxford
‘Intermediterranean Encounters. The Geographical Dimension of Islamic Intellectual History (11th-14th Centuries’, Aberdeen
‘The Limits of Dialogue’, Raimundus Lullus Conference, Andorra
‘Islamic Concepts and Terminology in Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha’, Islam & Buddhism Workshop, McGill
‘Westerners and Strangers. Geography and Islamic Intellectual History’, Wolfson College, Research seminar
‘The Buddha and the Straight Path: Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha’, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Dynamics in the History of Religions, Bochum
‘The Religious Heritage of Europe. Islamic Perspectives’, The Religious Heritage of Europe, workshop organised by the German Episcopal Conference, Cologne
‘Anti-Sufi Polemics and the Interreligious Mediterranean (13th-14th Centuries)’, Medieval Congress, Leeds
‘Ibn Sīnā in the Muslim West’, International Congress Medieval Hispanic Latin, Barcelona
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2008
‘What is Philosophical Sufism’; Conference In the Age of Averroes. Arabic Thought at the End of the Classical Period, Warburg Institute
‘Islamic Terminology and Concepts in Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha’; Hagiography Workshop, University of Stuttgart
‘Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate and its Philosophical Implications’; Workshop Islamic Freethinking and Western Radicalism, Princeton
‘Introduction’ and ‘Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate and its Philosophical Implications’; Conference Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Warburg Institute
2007
‘Dying of Laughter in Lhasa’; Research seminar on the history of science, University of Haifa
‘Alexander the Great in the Islamic Tradition’, Workshop on Hellenism, Central European University, Budapest
‘Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha - Islamic perspectives’; Conference Rashīd al-Dīn as an Agent and Mediator of Crosspollinations in Religion, Medicine, Science and Art London
‘Niffarī: a Sufi Mahdi of the Fourth/Tenth Century?’; Conference Antichrist. Eschatologische Feindtypisierungen und –identifizierungen, Frankfurt University
‘Patronage in al-Andalus for Philosophy and Mysticism’; Colloquium on the Cultures of Christian and Islamic Iberia, Exeter University
‘Law and Longing: al-Andalus in Exile’; Conference Christian North, Muslim South. The Iberian Peninsula in the Context of Cultural, Religious and Political Changes 11th – 15th Centuries, Frankfurt University
‘Fire in Cities in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic World’; Environmental Connections: Fourth Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam
Series of lectures: ‘Faith and reason in Islam – an introduction to theology’, ‘Revelation and reason in Islamic philosophy: Ibn Rushd’, ‘Literal interpretation and reason (Ibn Hazm)’ and ‘Islam and the challenge of modernity (Tariq Ramadan)’; Seminar Faith and Reason in Islam and Christianity, Die Wolfsburg, Catholic Academy
2006
‘Rashid al-Din as a Source for Islamic-Buddhist Contacts’; Workshop Medicine on the Silk Roads, Transmission and Transformations, Wellcome Centre/British Library/Warburg Institute (London) (with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim)
‘Between Tibet and the Islamic World: Musk Trade and Medicine’; Workshop Medicine on the Silk Roads, Transmission and Transformations, Wellcome Centre/British Library/Warburg Institute (London) (with Ronit Yoeli- Tlalim)
‘Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions along the Musk Routes’; Lecture at the Warburg Institute (with Ronit Yoeli- Tlalim)
27 ‘Ibn Sabʿīn Averroist. The Sources of the Sicilian Questions’; SIHSPAI Colloquium, Florence
‘Approaches to Earthquakes in Islamic Sciences in the Middle Ages’ (in German); Colloquium Historische Erforschung von Katastrophen: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung, University of Stuttgart
‘Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy and Science: Eastern and Western Perspective’; Conference The Renaissance and the Ottoman World, Warburg Institute/SOAS (London)
‘Ibn Sabʿīn and the Impact of the Almohad Revolution on Intellectual Life in al-Andalus’; Colloquium on the Cultures of Christian and Islamic Iberia, Exeter University
‘Approaches to Natural Disasters in Arabic-Islamic Medieval Sciences: A Comparison of Earthquakes and Plagues’; Conference Natural Disasters and Pre-Modern Societies, University of Zurich
‘Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Others – Looking for Paganism in the History of the Medieval Muslim West’; Conference Paganism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Cambridge University
‘Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography’; graduate research seminar, Khalili Research Centre (Oxford)
‘Arabic Medicine for Birds of Prey: a Treatise Compiled in Eighth Century Baghdad’; seminar, Medical Texts in translation series, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (London)
‘Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography’; Conference Islam and Tibet, Warburg Institute
‘Reading Ibn Khaldūn in the Age of Post-Orientalism’; Conference on Ibn Khaldūn, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
2005
‘Ibn Sabʿīn – An Arabic Source of Ramón Llull?’; Director’s Work in Progress Seminar, Warburg Institute, London
‘The muḥaqqiq as Mahdi? Ibn Sabʿīn and Mahdism among Andalusian Mystics in the 12th/13th Centuries’; Conference Endzeiten – politische und gesellschaftliche Implikationen universaleschatologischer Vorstellungen in den drei monotheistischen Weltreligionen (5. bis 16. Jahrhundert), University of Frankfurt
‘Astrology and Medicine in Arabic Physiognomical Works’; Colloquium Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West, Warburg Institute, London
‘Ibn Sabʿīn: The Sicilian Questions’ (read in absence); Table Rounde about Ibn Sabʿīn, Paris
‘Philosophy and mysticism in late Almohad Spain’ (in German); Religionswissenschaftliches Graduiertenkolloquium, University of Erfurt
‘The Description of the Camel in Early Arabic Poetry’ (in German); Colloquium Camel, Horse, and Reindeer – Herds and Nomad Mobility, University of Leipzig
‘The al-Ghazālī Conspiracy – Critical Reactions to Western Sufism in the Eastern Mediterranean’; Conference Post- Avicennan Philosophy and Science, Bar Ilan University
2004
‘The Influence of the Arabic Tradition of Falconry and Hunting on European Culture’; Colloquium Islamic Crosspollinations, University of Cambridge
28 ‘Approaches to Earthquakes in Islamic Theology and Science’; Conference Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Disasters in Global Perspective, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
‘Al-Turtūshī’s Sirāj al-mulūk in View of Almohad Anthropology’ (in Spanish); Conference Què és l’home? Reflexions antropològiques a la Corona d’Aragó durant l’Edat Mitjana, Barcelona
‘A Baghdad Court in Constantinople/Istanbul’; Conference Clash of Cultures, International Medieval Congress, Leeds
‘Images of Islam in Nicolas of Cusa and Ramón Llull’ (in German); Conference Ramón Llull und Nikolaus von Kues. Eine philosophisch-theologische Begegnung im Zeichen der Toleranz, Bozen-Brixen
‘Some Remarks concerning Arabic Poetry in Latin America’; Workshop ArabAmericas, Literatures without a Fixed Abode, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
‘Maimonides and Andalusian Migration’ (in Spanish); Conference Maimónides y el pensamiento medieval, IV Congreso Nacional de Filosofía Medieval, Córdoba
2003
‘Translation as Transfer of Knowledge: Problems and Methods in Case of the Medieval Transmission of the Nicomachean Ethics’ (in German); Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Frankfurt (with Alexander Fidora)
‘Interpretations of Sheikh Bedreddin’s Revolt in Modern Literature and Historiography’; Oriental Studies Symposium, Elis, Greece
2002
‘Concepts of Home in the Poetical Works of Fawzī al-Maʿlūf’; Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico
‘The Concept of Nature in Arabic Romantic Poetry’ (in German); Conference, The Book of Nature, Continuity and Change in European and American Attitudes towards the Natural World, University of Groningen
‘Georgios Gemistos Pletho and Islam’ (in German); Conference on Georgios Gemistos Plethon, Mystras, Greece
‘The Latin Translations of Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī’s Risālah fī ‘l-ʿaql’ (in German); International Congress of Medieval Philosophy of the Société International pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM), Porto
‘Arabic sources of the Moamin’; Workshop on the court of Frederick II, Pisa
‘The Adaptation of Byzantine Science at the Ottoman Court after the Conquest of Constantinople’ (in German); Workshop Wissen in der Krise, Institutionen des Wissens im gesellschaftlichen Wandel, University of Frankfurt
‘The Latin Translation of an Arabic Treatise on Falconry as an Example of the Transmission of Science in the Middle Ages’ (in Arabic); Conference The Role of the Arab Moslem Science on the Western Scientific Achievements, Irbid, Jordan
2001
‘New Discoveries Regarding Arabic Sources of Latin Texts on Falconry’ (in German); German Congress of Oriental Studies, Bamberg
‘The Arabic Sources of the Latin Moamin’ (in German); Workshop on Latin texts on falconry, Frankfurt
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2000
‘Arabic Sources of Latin Texts on Falconry—Concepts of Knowledge as Reflected in Translations’ (in German); Internal colloquium, German Institute for Oriental Studies, Beirut
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