Islamic Philosophy Conference 2021
Saturday - December 4, 2021
Welcome
Welcome from Conference Organizers, Opening Remarks - Macksood Aftab & Aaron Spevack (Harvard University, Brandeis University, ASIPT, JIP)
Video Description:
An introduction to the Islamic Philosophy Conference (IPCM) by Aaron Spevack and Macksood Aftab introducing the conference, conference partners, sponsors, working groups and panelists.
Session 1
Panel A
| Khalil Abdurrashid – Importance of the Instrumental Sciences and the Need for their Revival |
| Mehmet Fatih – Ādāb al-Baḥth Literature: A New Manual for Critical Thinking? |
| Hamza Karamali – Representing the Modal Logic of Kalam Using Kripke’s Possible-World Semantics |
Panel B
Nazif Muhtaroglu – What do we mean by “God?” A Kalāmic Approach to the Meaning of “Allah”
Mustafa Styer- Induction (2): Its Fundamental Role in Epistemology
Safaruk Chowdhury- Abū al-Mu ‘īn al-Nasafī’s Critique of Various Definitions of Knowledge in Tabṣirat al-Adilla: A Philosophical Analysis
Session 2
Panel A
Talal Ahdab – Mabadi al-‘Asharah
Kenan Tekin – Beginnings or Principles: Commentaries and Glosses on the Notion of Mabādiʾ in Ibn Ḥājib’s Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahā
Logic Roundtable Discussion
Participants: Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Feryal Salem, Davlat Dadikhuda, Talal Ahdab, Safaruk Chowdhury, Mustafa Styer, Mahmood Zeraatpisheh, Aaron Spevack
Session 3
Panel A
Ramon Harvey – Inference from the shahid to the gha’ib in the light of post-Humean philosophy
Dustin Klinger – Where Did ʿilm al-waḍʿ Come From? Aristotelian Logic and Arabic Literary Criticism: An Attempt at a Genetic Story
Jaleel Fotovat-Ahmadi- Mulla Sadra, True Felicity, and the Intellect
Panel B
Walter Edward Young – Juristic Jadal’s New-Old Fallacies and How to Distill Them: An Untapped Treasury of Forms for Modern Critical Argumentation Theory
Sunday – December 5, 2021
Panel A
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Moiz Hasan – The Forging of Realism in Post-classical Islam: Jurjānī against the Skeptics
Mahmoud Zeraatpisheh – The Development of the Conception of Predication in the Islamic World
Panel A Q&A
Panel B
10:30 – 12:00 PM
Muhammad Shafeeq Vayalpeediyekkal – Epistemology as a Primary Tool of Investigation: The Kitābu’l-Uqūl Traditin in Indian Islamic Philosophy after Mollā Mahmūd Juānpūrī.
Ibrahim Safri – The use of logic in Maghribī tradition in the early modern period
Ashraf Ponnchethil – Function of ‘Ilm al-jadal wal-khilāf (Dialectics) in Uṣūli Discourses; Tāj al-Subki’s Jamʿ aljawāmiʿ is delineated
Panel C
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lilian About Tabickh What Does Ibn Khaldūn Mean by the Term Mādda? On Human Association and Political-Economic Organization
Muhktar Ali – Philosophical Sufism: The Mutually Providential Relationship between Philosophy and Mysticism
Syed Maisam Ali – Al-Fārābī’s Poetics Reconsidered
Panel C Q&A
Ten Categories Roundtable Discussion
2:00 – 4:00 PM
10 Categories Roundtable Discussion – Participants: Laura Hassan, Mahmood Zeraatpisheh, Safaruk Chowdhury, Davlat Dadikhuda, Aaron Spevack, Talal Ahdab, Omar Qureshi