Islamic Philosophy Conference 2023
Friday - December 1, 2023
Welcome
9:00 AM - 12/1/2023
Aaron Spevack - Welcome from Conference Organizers
Panel 1
9:15 AM - 12/1/2023
Emir Faruk Kayahan -Mustafa Sabri on Kant’s Understanding of Causality: Ashʿarite Occasionalism in Conversation with Kantian Theoretical Philosophy
Muhammed Rashid AK - Islamic Kalam in the Contemporary Philosophical Landscape: A Mustafa Sabri Inspired Approach
Ijaz Peramadathil - Buti's Critique of Dialectical Materialism: A Reevaluation of Islamic Thought and Marxist Philosophy
Lukman - Eternal Recurrence as Delusion: An analytical study of Alethia corresponding Transcendence and Immanence
Panel 2
10:30 AM - 12/1/2023
Abdulla Sinan PT – Epistemic Certainty in Islam and Western Philosophy: The Relevantization of Kalam Epistemology in Kubr Al-Yaqīnīyyāt Al-Kawnīyyah
Kübra Sümeyye Bahçi – Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Method of Tahqīq as a Framework for Contemporary Kalām
Muhammed Nazal Nawas – Harmonizing Reason and Revelation: Contemporary Dialogues in Kalam and Western Philosophy
Muhammed Noufal M.K – Theologians’ Opposition to Existentialism: A Critical Appraisal of ‘Al Madhahibu Thawheediyya wal Falsafaathul Muaasara’ of Said Ramadan al-bouti
Q&A
Panel 3
1:00 PM - 12/1/2023
Amir Mohammad Emami – An Inclusive Exclusivist: Mīrzā Mahdī Iṣfahānī on the Diversity of Religious and Mystical Experiences
Luckman Muthuvallur – Philosophy of science in the Quran: Analysing the diverse approaches on how science can be read in Quran
Q&A
Saturday - December 2, 2023
Opening Remarks
8:45 AM - 12/2/2023
Aaron Spevack – Welcome from Conference Organizers
Panel 1
9:00 AM - 12/2/2023
Muzaffar Ali – Muslim World: Kalam Theology and Political Theology
Ramon Harvey & David Solomon Jalajel – Being and Time: A Novel Version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Safaruk Chowdhury – Kalām Jadīd from the Indian Context: A Philosophical Examination of Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAli Thanwī’s (d. 1943) Text al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīda
Q&A
Seminar
10:30 AM - 12/2/2023
Stephen Cúrto – ASIPT Neoplatonic Seminar
Panel 2
12:30 PM - 12/2/2023
Nuruddin Al Akbar – Islam And Artificial Intelligence: Islamization Proposal
https://youtu.be/9h5pJ_oZknE
Nazif Muhtaroglu – AI and Free Will: Ashʿarite and Māturīdite Kalām Perspectives
Q&A
Panel 3
1:30 PM - 12/2/2023
Mohammed Tayssir Safi – The Traditional Islamics Sciences as Philosophical Inquiry: Ḥadīth Sciences as a Case Study
Feryal Elif Salem – Ethics as Islamic Philosophy: An Overview of Ṭaşköprüzāde’s Commentary on the Virtue Ethics of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī
Yusuf Sulaiman – Typologizing Taḥqīq: Illustrating the Multifaceted ‘Acts’ of Verification in the al-ʿAqāʾid al-ʿAḍudiyyah Literature
Q & A
Panel 4
3:30 PM - 12/2/2023
Aiyub Palmer – Can we Mend the Divide between Shaykh Musṭafā Ṣabrī and the Akbarī School? – Al-Tirmidhī’s Analogy of the Mirror and its Implications for the Debate around waḥdat al-wujūd
Hikmat Jamal – Reason and Mysticism in al-Munqidh min al-Dalal and Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Q & A
Keynote Address
5:00 PM - 12/2/2023
Talal Ahdab – “You are to believe in him and aid him” Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī’s epistle on the verse (3:81): Reframing and Time Distortion of Sharʿman Qablanā, the Universality of his Message, and the Dajjāl
Sunday - December 3, 2023
Panel 1
10:00 AM - 12/3/2023
Mohammad Meftah – Argument of Siddiquin Mulla Sadra: The pinnacle of Islamic philosophy in proving the existence of God without prerequisites
Meysam Azizian Mosleh – The method of abstraction and realization of the concept of existence (From the perspective of Sadra’s philosophy)
Q & A
Panel 2
11:00 AM - 12/3/2023
Kenan Tekin – Postclassical Islamic Philosophical Debates on Essential Accidents
Amana Raquib, Marium Ezam Qazi, Talha Moosani – The Status of Scientific Theories as Instruments: A Sunnī Epistemological Investigation
Ahmed Abdel Meguid – Thingness versus Essence: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Contribution to Post-Avicennian Modality and Metaphysics of Objects
Ayse Betul Donmez Tekin – Marjānī’s (1818-1889) Synthesis of Kalam and Falsafa: The Concept of Hudūth
Q & A
Panel 3
2:00 PM - 12/3/2023
Maryam Kheradmand – Avicenna’s Philosophy of Beauty: Criteria, Classification, and Aesthetic Perception
Shahab Khademi – Avicenna and the Meaning of Logic: Revisiting Five Major Works
Hashem Morvarid – Avicenna on Divine Simplicity
Abdulaziz Alotaibi – Ibn Rushd [Averroes] on the Immortality of the Soul
Q & A