Islamic Philosophy Conference 2020
Saturday - December 5, 2020
Welcome from Conference Organizers, Opening Remarks - Aaron Spevack (Harvard University, Brandeis University, ASIPT, JIP)
Video Description:
An introduction to the Islamic Philosophy Conference (IPCM) by Aaron Spevack introducing the conference, conference partners, sponsors, working groups and panelists.
Abdulrahman Bajoda (University of British Columbia) – Knowing the World, Knowing God: Ikhwan Al-Safa’s Aristotelean Theory of Human Intellection
Lilian Abou-Tabickh (University of Toronto) – How significant is the term “condition” (hal) to Understanding Ibn Khaldun’s Political Ideas? Al-‘asabiyya as an “Essential Condition” of Human Association.
Seyede Zahra Hosseini (Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University) – Otherness of God in Avicenna’s Philosophy
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Hussaini (Coppin State University) – The Shared Concepts of Mulla Sadra and James in Philosophy and Truth
Dr. Ernestas Jancenkas (Vilnius University) – The Transcendence of Imagination in al-Farabi’s and Ibn Sina’s Philosophy
Laura Hassan (University of Oxford) – Ash’arism and The Problem of Immaterial Substance
Kenan Tekin (Harvard University) – Reconsidering the Classical Theory of Science: Sadr al-Shari a, Taftazani and Their Interlocutors on the Issue of the Subject Matter
Ayse Betul Tekin (Harvard University) – Divisions of Existents in Post – Classical Islamic Thought: Prolegomenon of Tajrid
Nazif Muhtaroglu (Mimar Sinan University) – A Modal Argument for the Uniqueness of God
Aaron Spevack (Harvard University / Brandeis University) – Mapping Epistemologies: Preliminary Reflections on Calibrating Islamic Epistemologies with Their interlocutors
Hamza Karamali (Basira Education) – I think therefore God exists (Mustaga Sabri, the Argument From Contingency, and a God-Centered Solution to Modern Philosophical Skepticism)
Omar Qureshi (Zaytuna College) – Sunni Muslim Theologians on the ontological Status of Universals
Safaruk Z. Chowdhury (CMC, Ibn Rushd Center for Islamic Excellence and Research) – Ibn Taymiyya’s ase for Fitralism and the Karam Evidentialist Rejoinder
Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (Brandeis University) – Discussant
Naeel Cajee (Independent) – Moderator
Sunday - December 6, 2020
Session 1
Moiz Hasan (Institute of Business Administration) – Epistemological Foundations of Pre-Modern Islamic Science
Nuruddin Al Akbar (Universitas Gadjah Mada) – Ibn Taymiyyah and Post-Normal Science
Nabil Yasien Mohamed (University of the Western Cape) – Ghazzali’s Skepticism and Quest for the Foundations of Knowledge
Mohammad Reza Moini (University of Tehran) – Eternity against Creation: The Evolution of the Idea of Creation of the World
Omair Anas (Yildirim Beyazit University) – The Post-Kalam Islamic Argument
Mehmet Fatih Arslan (Istanbul University) – Dancing with Devil or Chanting with Angels? al-Razi’s Employment of Philosophical Arguments in Discussion of Divine Attributes
Saifuddin Dhuhri (IAIN Lhokseumawe) – What is Islamic in Islamic Philosophy? A study of Hasan Hanafi Proposal Upon Ushul Fiqh
Moh. Hamdi (Independent) – Abdurrahman Wahid’s Idea of the Indigenization of Islam: An Epistemological Overview
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed (Bard College) – Practicing Philosophy and Intellectualizing Sufism: Riyada in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Sharh al-Isharat wo Itanbihat
Session 2
Huzaifa Taquee (Columbia University) – Siyasah and the Caliphate in the Political Philosophy of the Rasa il Ikhwan al-Safa
Mahmood Zeraatpisheh (Birjand University) – The Negative Approach of al-Shahid al-Thani towards Logic
Hussein Ibrahim (American University of Beirut) – The Binary between Philosophical Quietism and Activism: The Risala-yi Sih Asl of Mulla Sadra al-Shirazi
Khalil Andani (Augustana College) – God’s Speech through Gabriel’s Words: Sunni Ash’ari Conceptions of Quranic Revelation
Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia) – Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa