General Information
NEWS: The conference is now a hybrid event – follow it on Zoom here!
The conference will be held from 13–15 September 2023 in the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme in Aix-en-Provence (for the first two days) and in the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille (for the final day).
Wednesday, 13 September 2023 (Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence)
09.00–09.10
Olga L. Lizzini (Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS-Iremam) & Andreas Lammer (Radboud University Nijmegen): Welcome and introduction
09.10–09.15
Dimitri Gutas (emeritus, Yale University, New Haven): Opening words
09.15–10.15
Meryem Sebti (CNRS, UMR 8230 Centre Jean Pépin, Paris): “L’épître sur la prière votive et la visite des lieux saints”
10.15–11.15
Jules Janssens (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven): “al-Tuḥfa: Title, Contents, Transmission”
Coffee/Tea break
11.30–12.30
Wilfrid Hodges (emeritus, University of London): “Early Strands in Ibn Sīnā’s Formal Logic”
Lunch break
14.15–15.15
Sarah Virgi (Utrecht University): “The Controversy Between Avicenna and Ibn al-Ṭayyib on the Natural Faculties”
15.15–16.15
Cristina Cerami (CNRS, UMR 7219 Sphère, Paris): “To the Extent Possible: Avicenna’s Answers to Ten Questions – An Overview”
Coffee/Tea break
16.30–17.30
Damien Janos (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung/LMU Munich): “ḥaqīqa, Oneness, and Existence in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Can the rasāʾil Be of Any Help?”
Thursday, 14 September 2023 (Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence)
09.15–10.15
Nicholas Aubin (University of Warwick): “Two Sheikhs and a Long Tale: Engaging with Avicenna’s Treatise On the Heavenly Bodies in Late Ottoman Times”
10.15–11.15
Nadjet Zouggar (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Iremam): “Identification de l’auteur du commentaire sur le poème de l’âme d’Avicenne al-Qaṣīda al-ʿayniyya conservé dans un unicum (Aya Sofya 4073) et remarques préliminaires”
Coffee/Tea break
11.30–12.30
Ivana Panzeca (FSCIRE/University of Palermo): “The Corpus of Avicenna’s Persian Works and its Manuscript Tradition”
Lunch break
14.15–15.15
Mali Alinejad Zanjani (École normale supérieure, Paris): “Le Liber aphorismorum Avicennae de anima ou la transmission du Kitāb al-Taʿlīqāt à la Renaissance italienne”
15.15–16.15
Yotam Schremer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Omer Michaelis (Tel Aviv University): “A Judeo-Arabic ‘Edition’ of the Final Chapters of Avicenna’s Pointers and Reminders: New Findings in the Genizah”
Coffee/Tea break
16.30–18.00
General assembly of the Avicenna Study Group
Friday, 15 September 2023 (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille)
10.00–12.30
“Eating in the Mediterranean” (Jeu de l’Oie Festival des sciences et de l’art)
Lunch break
13.30–14.30
Marwan Rashed (Université Paris-Sorbonne) & Burak Şaman (Istanbul 29 Mayis University): “L’épitre d’Avicenne sur l’étendue: Autour de la question du lieu de dieu”
14.30–15.30
Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, Centre Paul Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence): “Small Epistles and Big Collections on the Bosphorus: The Avicennian ‘One-Volume Libraries’ in Istanbul”
Coffee/Tea break
15.45–16.45
Mohammad J. Esmaeili (Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran): “The Risāla fī l-ḥadaṯ: A Short Tract on Createdness Ascribed to Avicenna”
16.45–17.45
Michael Rapoport (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton): “The Celestial Soul or ‘On the Proof of Prophecy’? – The Dual Life of an Avicennan (?) Treatise on the Soul”
Coffee/Tea break
18.00–18.30
Olga L. Lizzini (Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS-Iremam) & Andreas Lammer (Radboud University Nijmegen): Final discussion and closing words