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Thursday 18 July 2024
Monthly Talk: The Greatest Islamic Philosopher You've Never Heard Of: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
Alongside such famous names from Islamic philosophy as al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes), the tradition has many other outstanding thinkers who are little known in the Western world. One of them is Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī who died early in the 13th century CE. In this paper I will present a few of his most intriguing ideas: about God, space and time, and the difference between humans and animals.
Thursday 26 June 2024
Monthly Talk: What’s “Islamic” about Islamic Art?
Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a specialist in Islamic art, architectural history, and archaeology. Her book The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’s and the Architecture of Coexistence (2014), received numerous awards
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