Saturday, 17 March 2001
Introduction and “State of the Art”
9.30am–10am
Comments by Dimitri Gutas (Yale University), Jules Janssens (Independent Scholar), Yahya Michot (Oxford University), and Robert Wisnovsky (Harvard University).
First Panel: Logic and Language
10am–12.30am
Asad Ahmed (Princeton University): “Avicenna’s Treatment of Aristotelian Models”
Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari (Allameh Tabatabaʾi University): “The Linguistic Achievements of Ibn Sīnā”
Special Presentation
Shuhrat Irgashev (Avicenna International Foundation): “Ibn Sīnā Studies in Uzbekistan: An Overview”
Second Panel: Psychology
02pm–05pm
Rahim Acar (Harvard University): “Intellect vs. Active Intellect: Plotinus and Avicenna”
Kiki Kennedy-Day (Fatih University): “Ibn Sīnā on the Afterlife of the Soul”
Tariq Jaffer (Yale University): “Avicenna’s Argument against Metempsychosis (tanāsukh) as Found in ar-Risāla al-Aḍḥawīya fī amr al-maʿād”
Sunday, 18 March 2001
Third Panel: Metaphysics
09am–12am
Amos Bertolacci (Yale University): “Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Ilāhīyāt of the Shifāʾ ”
Sajjad Rizvi(Cambridge University): “Process Metaphysics in Islam? Avicenna and Mullā Ṣadrā on Intensification in Being”
Toby Mayer (Oxford University): “Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī’s Critique of Ibn Sīnā’s Argument for the Unity of God in the Ishārāt, and Nasīr ad-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Defence”
Fourth Panel: Reaction and Reception
01.30pm–05.20pm
David C. Reisman (Yale University): “Ibn Sīnā and his Students: Preliminary Remarks on The Discussions”
Alnoor Dhanani(Harvard University): “Rocks in the Heavens? The Encounter between ʿAbd al-Jabbār and Ibn Sīnā”
Ahmed H. al-Rahim (Yale University): “The Reception of Ibn Sīnā among Shīʿī Scholars”
Hidemi Takahashi (Goethe University Frankfurt): “The Reception of Ibn Sīnā in Syriac: The Case of Gregory Barhebraeus”