The Formation of Arabic Scholarship

Event time: 
Saturday, November 10, 2018 - 9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Sterling Memorial Library (SML ), Lecture Hall See map
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Symposium held in honor of Dimitri Gutas.

Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic (PhD, Yale 1974) did his undergraduate and graduate work at Yale in classics, history of religions, and Arabic and Islamic studies. Gutas studies and teaches classical Arabic and the pre-modern intellectual tradition in Islamic civilization from different aspects. At the center of his concerns lies the study and understanding of Arabic in its many forms as a prerequisite for the proper appreciation of the written sources which inform us about the history and culture of Islamic societies. He also has an abiding interest in the transmission of Greek scientific and philosophical works into the Islamic world through the momentous Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad during the 8th-10th centuries AD (2nd-4th Hijri).

Featuring Anna Akasoy, Professor of Islamic History at the City University of New York; Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Professor of Oriental and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum; Geoffrey Moseley, PhD in Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University; Michael Rapoport, PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Yale University; Everett Rowson, Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University; and Alexander Treiger, Associate Professor of Classics at Dalhousie University

Co-sponsored by Kempf Memorial Fund, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Schedule as follows:
9:30-10:00 Breakfast and coffee
10:00-10:20 “Welcome and Introduction: Dimitri Gutas in the Formation of Arabic Scholarship Today,” by Kevin van Bladel
Morning session: Chair, Frank Griffel
10:20-11:10 Anna Akasoy, “ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib and the rise of Arabic falconry literature”
11:10-12:00 Michael Rapoport, “Philosophy, Mysticism, and Avicenna: Pointers for Reading al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt”
Afternoon session: Chair, Beatrice Gründler
2:30-3:20 Everett Rowson, “From (Ps.-) Aristotle to Avicenna: The Graeco-Arabic Medical Tradition on Sodomy”
3:20-4:10 Geoffrey Moseley, “How Many Phaedos?”
4:10-5:00 Alexander Treiger, “Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: Reflections on the Patristic Component”
5:00-5:30 Invited congratulatory remarks

Open to: 
General Public

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