Islamic Philosophy Conference 2024
Friday - December 6, 2024
Welcome
8:45 AM - 12/6/2024
Aaron Spevack - Welcome from Conference Organizers
Panel 1
9:00 AM - 12/6/2024
Muhammed Anees - De-Esotericization of Sufism: Significance of Imam al-Ghazali and Ihya' Ulum al-Din
Jamie Turner - Islamic Universalism
Luqmanul Hakeem - Topology Of Interpretation: Uṣūl Al-Fiqh And Ghazālīan Hermeneutics In Consideration
Panel 1 Q&A
Panel 2
10:30 AM - 12/6/2024
Hani Zewail – Ethical Beauty and the Soul: Musical Aesthetics in the Writings of al-Kindī
Abul Kalam Sharafat – As Divine Equity: A Scholarly Exegesis on the Interstices of Justice in Islamic Philosophy and Theological Discourses
Panel 2 Q&A
Panel 3
12:00 PM - 12/6/2024
Safiyyah Sabreen Sayeed – Can Iqbal’s panpsychist cosmology solve the hard problem of consciousness?
Panel 3 Q&A
Saturday - December 7, 2024
Panel 1
8:00 AM - 12/7/2024
Ahmad Sahidah – Islamic Mysticism in Theory and Practice at the Nurul Jadid Islamic Boarding School: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Mohammad Hasan Sadeqi Alavicheh & Mostafa Taqavi – The Traditions of Teaching and Studying Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy in Shia Islamic Seminaries
Mohamed Jabir Ali Al-Hudawi – Complexities And Relevance Of Teaching 14th Century Usūlī Texts In The Modern Era: A Case Study Of Jamʿ Al-Jawāmiʿ
Claire Gallien – De-Religionising Islamic Theology and Re-Theologising Islamic Literature with Marianne Moyaert and Sidi Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥabīb (d. 1390/1971)
Panel 1 Q&A
Opening Remarks
9:20 AM - 12/2/2024
Aaron Spevack – Welcome from Conference Organizers
Panel 2
9:30 AM - 12/2/2024
Safaruk Chowdhury – Cultivating Habits of the Mind: Embedding Virtue Epistemology in Islamic Education
Abla Hasan – Curricular Integration of Jadal in Teaching Islam: A new vision for teaching Islam in the American classroom
Yusuf Rios – The Kalam Tradition in the Age of Anti-Reason and Anti-Revelation: Sharh al Aqaid as a Gateway and Bridge to Theology Past and Present
Panel 2 Q&A
Panel 3
11:30 AM - 12/7/2024
Aziz Ishler – Reconstructing Pre-Modern Curricula: Al-Ghazali’s Pedagogical Legacy in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy
Amani Elshimi – Education for ‘Spiritual Felicity’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of al-Ghazāli’s “The Scale of Action”
Bradley Dart – Deontic Logic of al-ahkam al-khamsah
Kevin Marshall – Expanding Access to Classical Liberal Education through Multicultural Means within a Changing America
Panel 3 Q & A
Panel 4
2:00 PM - 12/7/2024
Ramon Harvey – All Bundled Up? Reconsidering Accident Bundle Theory with Analytic Metaphysics
Maryam Kheradmand – Does God Experience Pleasure in Perceiving His Beauty? A Philosophical and Theological Exploration
Kamal Gasimov – Does God Experience Pleasure in Perceiving His Beauty? A Philosophical and Theological Exploration
Panel 4 Q&A
Panel 5
4:00 PM - 12/7/2024
Marwan Tayyan – The Question of Consistency Revisited in al-Ghazālī’s Writings on Divine Justice
Panel 5 Q&A
Keynote Address
5:00 PM - 12/7/2024
Ahmad Talal Ahdab – ‘ilm-ology and Indivisibility of the Division of Knowledge
Keynote Q&A
Sunday - December 8, 2024
Panel 1
8:00 AM - 12/8/2024
Sahad MK – Reimagining Islamic Education: Wafy as Model of Integrating Islamic and Secular Studies
Ferry Hidayat – Teaching Manthiq in Pesantrens of Indonesia
Aliasghar Ahmadi – Transformative Paradigms in Epistemology Education: Cultivating Peace in Iranian Academia
Syamsuddin Arif – Sophism and the Sophists in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Representation and Refutation
Nuruddin Al Akbar – Multiplexity: New Conversation about Philosophy and Science
Panel 1 Q&A
Panel 2
9:30 AM - 12/8/2024
Samet Buyukada – When Avicenna Faced with Zombie
Nilab Saeedi – Uncovering Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī: The Forgotten Pioneer of Ottoman Science and Philosophy
Mohammed Suhail EM – Proper Functionality and Design Plan in Islamic Theology
Panel 2 Q&A
Panel 3
11:30 AM - 12/8/2024
Mohamed Amer Meziane – The Tree of non-Being. From Deleuzian immanence to Ibn Arabi’s barzakh
Javon Canlas – How Do We Know All Muslims Believe in the Same God?: Sunni Islam’s Historical Problem of Divine Identity Settled by a Wittgensteinian-ʾAtharī Synthesis
Nazif Muhtaroglu: Akkirmânî’s Occasionalist Approach to Neuroscientific Research on Human Will
Panel 3 Q&A
Panel 4
2:00 PM - 12/8/2024
Omar Qureshi – Human Origins: Teaching Evolutionary Accounts in Light of Revealed Truths
Aiyub Palmer – An Early Source for Ashʿarī Occasionalism, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī’s Kitāb al-Ḥikma on the Relation of Cause and Effect to Miracles
Jawad Qureshi – Ashʿarī Theology Beyond “the Avicennian turn” and Maghribi Sufism in the Writings of Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 1490)
Fouad Ben Ahmed – Islam Without Kalām: Ibn Rushd and His Radical Position on the Theologians
Panel 4 Q&A
Panel 5: ASIPT Neoplatonic Seminar
4:00 PM - 12/8/2024
Muhammed Volkan Stodolsky – ASIPT Neoplatonic Seminar: Kalam response to Emanation Cosmologies
Stephen Cúrto – ASIPT Neoplatonic Seminar, discussant
Ahmed Abdel Meguid – ASIPT Neoplatonic Seminar, discussant and Q&A