KHK Visiting Research Fellow 2009, Research Associate, Courant Research Centre EDRIS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Education
Ph.D. in History of Arabic Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2009
M.A. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology, University of Oxford, England, 2002
B.A. in Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2001
KHK Fellowship
Duration: April 2009 – March 2010
Project: Interpreting the Cosmos: Patterns of Continuity and Rupture in the Relation Between Physics, Metaphysics, Astronomy, and Theology in Late-antique Greek and Early Islamic Cosmology
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Areas of Research
Epistemology and the philosophical sciences in tafsīr; Islamic cosmology; Al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā’s metaphysics and cosmology
Individual Researcher of Interferences between Theology and the Sciences in the Formation and Diffusion of early Islamic cosmological Models
Former Fellow of Käte Hamburger Kolleg
