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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Kno
 wledge Tradition in the Arabic-Muslim World.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250614
DTSTAMP:20260404T005007Z
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DESCRIPTION:From June 11 to 13\, 2025\, a scientific workshop entitled “
 The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Knowledge Tradition i
 n the Arabic-Muslim World” will take place at the Institute for Arabic a
 nd Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.\nwill take place. The even
 t is being organized by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schöck together with her succe
 ssor Prof. Dr. Andreas Lammer.\n\nThe event will open on Wednesday evening
 \, June 11\, 2025 at 6 p.m. c.t. in GB 5/160\, with a keynote lecture by P
 rof. Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California\, Berkeley) entitled “The L
 egacy of Avicennism in Nineteenth-Century South Asia”.\n\nAbstract: The 
 lecture examines the reception of the famous Avicennian “essence-existen
 ce” distinction in nineteenth-century South Asia.  The focus is on nine
 teenth-century South Asia. The point of reference is a treatise on simple 
 and compound generation\, which sets out the various philosophical and the
 ological issues involved in advocating and rejecting the distinction.  Th
 e treatise spans quite a wide chronological range: it takes us from the Il
 luminists and Peripatetics to the debates in Isfahan and Shiraz and finall
 y to the philosophers and theologians of South Asia.  The lecture will cl
 osely examine some of the technical arguments and assumptions underlying t
 he acceptance or rejection of the distinction\, the technical capabilities
  of some solutions\, and the late and dynamic South Asian contributions to
  this debate. It will conclude with reflections on why this subtle point o
 f philosophy mattered in the broader South Asian context.\n\nMore informat
 ion on the conference follows on the Institute's website: https://www.ruhr
 -uni-bochum.de/islamwiss/index.html.de
LOCATION:External venue
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/workshop-the-reception-and-transformati
 on-of--en-1/
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