Philosophy, Sciences and Theology in the Islamicate World of the Ninth Century (21-22/10/2019)
American University of Beirut, College Hall, Auditorium B1
Cosponsored by: The Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic and Islamic Sciences and Philosophy and the joint project “Galen in Arabic – more than a Translation” (ANR – FWF)
October 21, 2019, College Hall, Auditorium B1
9:00-9:30 Introduction
9:30 -10:15 Christophe Erismann (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna)
Cultural and Philosophical Interactions between Byzantium and the Abbasid Empire in the Ninth Century: A discussion of some examples involving Aristotelian logic
10:15-11:00 Elvira Wakelnig (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna)
The End of Late Antiquity, the Beginning of Arabic Philosophy
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Basim Musallam (King’s College, University of Cambridge)
Jahiz and Aristotle
12:00-12:45 George Saliba (Farouk Jabre Center/ Department of History, AUB)
Jahiz and the Hybridization of Animals
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Guillaume de Vaulx d’Arcy (Institut Français du Proche-Orient)
The taskhīr Question – between Philosophy, Zoology and Theology
15:15-16:00 Emma Gannagé (Department of Philosophy, AUB)
Which Version of the Categories Was al-Kindī Reading?
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Jawdath Jabbour (Programme de recherche « Philosophie Arabe et Syriaque en Île-de-France et ailleurs » CNRS/ENS, Paris)
The Place and Nature of the Study of the Soul in al-Farabi’s Classification of Natural Sciences and its Relation with Ninth Century Philosophical Productions
October 22, 2019, College Hall, Auditorium B1
9:30- 10:15 Pauline Koetschet (Institut Français du Proche-Orient)
A Ninth Century Timaeus. Galen’s Synopsis in Arabic
10:15-11:00 Gregor Schwarb (Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
The Epistemology of Sign Theories: Between Medicine and ʿilm al-kalām
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Ziad Bou Akl (CNRS/ ENS, Paris)
New Fragments of an Early Tenth Century Sunni Doxography: al-Qalānisī’s Maqālāt
12:00-12:45 Andreas Lammer (Philosophy, Universität Trier)
A Lively Debate on Body and Matter before (and after) Avicenna
12:45-13:15 Concluding Remarks
