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Last week the German blog “Lehrgut” published a post in which on of our network members reflects on the ways in which teachers could incorporate contemporary Arab philosophy into their lessons.
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Network-Member Nils Riecken participates as contributing author to the book launch of “Contemporary Moroccan Thought: On Philosophy, Theology, and Culture” (Brill 2025, pp. 793). The book opens a new chapter in understanding Moroccan and North African intellectual history.
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On 11 June, the editor Dr. Mansooreh Khalilizand and authors of the recently published volume The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought: Contemplating Allah (Routledge) cordially invite to participate in the online live discussion and volume presentation.
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Am 18. März 2023 wurde Anke von Kügelgen an der Universität Göttingen die zu ihren Ehren verfasste Festschrift überreicht. Diese Festschrift für die Philosophiehistorikerin und Islamwissenschaftlerin Anke von Kügelgen trägt ihrem übergeordneten Forschungsinteresse an „Wissenskulturen muslimischer Gesellschaften” Rechnung und präsentiert originelle Forschungsbeiträge von ihren Kolleg:innen und Schüler:innen.
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Roman Seidel article “Decentring the Grand Narrative of the Enlightenment: The Transregional Micronarrative of Mīrzā Āqā Khān Kermānī’s Writings in Global Intellectual History,” has just been published in the Volume Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World. Decolonial Challenges to the Humanities and Social Sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, edited by Kai Kresse and Abdoulaye Sounaye. Seidel’s article discusses some methodological reflections such as epistemic asymmetries and the idea of philosophical micro narratives.
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The network members Mansooreh Khalilizand and Kata Moser published each a paper in the anthology “Women’s Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy” edited by Saloua Chatti. The paper by Mansooreh Khalilizand focuses on the debate on primacy of existence (aṣālat al-wujūd) versus the primacy of essence (aṣālat al-māhiyya). Khalilizand aims at problematizing and questioning what has been taken as a matter of course in the research, i.e. the implication of the debate on the primacy of existence versus the primacy of essence, formulated as a strict dichotomy in a particular stage of Islamic philosophy.
Kata Moser examines in her study the contemporary Arabic discourse on the legitimacy and nature of metaphysics. In particular the study presents and discusses the notions of Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Youssef Karam, and Yumna Tarief El-Kholy on Metaphysics.
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The network member Pascale Roure published an open access paper on Hans Reichenbach’s philosophical activities at the Istanbul University in the 1930s and his impact on his Turkish students – most of them women.
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Das Netzwerkmitglied Urs Gösken hat einen Beitrag publiziert im Sammelband Toleranz, herausgegeben von Dagmar Kiesel und Cleophea Ferrari. Der Artikel untersucht Wandlungen im Konzept von Toleranz in Theorie und Praxis in der islamischen Welt unter dem Einfluss von Reformbewegungen im späteren 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, allen voran in einschlägigen Gedichten des Literaten Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm (1872 – 1932).
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The as yet unpublished work “Studie über den Islam und seine gegenwärtige Bedeutung” (Study on Islam and its Contemporary Significance) , written by the Syrian philosopher Nayef Ballouz is now available as vol. 3 of the book series “Philosophy in the Modern Middle East” (Berlin: de Gruyter October 2021). Originally written in the 1980s the work is now accessible in the German translation by Alexander Flores.
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Die Aufzeichnung der Vorlesung “Kritikauffassungen in der arabischsprachigen Philosophie”, die Anke von Kügelgen und Sarhan Dhouib im Rahmen der von der Wiener Gesellschaft für Interkultuerelle Philosophie und dem Netzwerk “Philosphie in der islamischen Welt der Moderne” am Do 17.3.2022 gehalten haben, ist nun online verfügbar.
