Workshop: The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Knowledge Tradition in the Arabic-Muslim World.
Externer Veranstaltungsort
Vom 11. bis 13. Juni 2025 findet am Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum ein wissenschaftlicher Workshop mit dem Titel "The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Knowledge Tradition in the Arabic-Muslim World"
statt. Organisiert wird die Veranstaltung von Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schöck gemeinsam mit ihrem Nachfolger Prof. Dr. Andreas Lammer.
Eröffnet wird die Veranstaltung am Mittwochabend, den 11. Juni 2025 um 18 Uhr c.t. in GB 5/160, mit einem Keynote-Vortrag von Prof. Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley) mit dem Titel “The Legacy of Avicennism in Nineteenth-Century South Asia“.
Abstract: This lecture investigates the reception of the famous Avicennan "essence-existence" distinction in nineteenth century South Asia. Its point of reference is a treatise on simple and compound generation that lays out the various philosophical and theological issues at stake in upholding and rejecting the distinction. The treatise engages a rather extensive chronological span: it takes us from the Illuminationists and Peripatetics to debates in Isfahan and Shiraz and ultimately to the philosophers and theologians of South Asia. The lecture examines closely some of the technical arguments and assumptions underlying the adoption or rejection of the distinction, the technical prowess of some of the solutions, and the late and dynamic South Asian contributions to the debate. It concludes with reflections on why this subtle point of philosophy mattered in the broader South Asian context.
