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Saturday, 17 March 2001<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Introduction and \u201cState of the Art\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
9.30am\u201310am<\/em>
Comments by Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)<\/strong>, Jules Janssens (Independent Scholar)<\/strong>, Yahya Michot (Oxford University)<\/strong>, and Robert Wisnovsky (Harvard University)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Panel: Logic and Language<\/span><\/strong>
10am\u201312.30am<\/em>
Asad Ahmed (Princeton University):<\/strong> \u201cAvicenna\u2019s Treatment of Aristotelian Models\u201d
Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari (Allameh Tabataba\u02bei University):<\/strong> \u201cThe Linguistic Achievements of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Presentation<\/em>
Shuhrat Irgashev (Avicenna International Foundation):<\/strong> \u201cIbn S\u012bn\u0101 Studies in Uzbekistan: An Overview\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second Panel: Psychology<\/span><\/strong>
02pm\u201305pm<\/em>
Rahim Acar (Harvard University):<\/strong> \u201cIntellect vs. Active Intellect: Plotinus and Avicenna\u201d
Kiki Kennedy-Day (Fatih University):<\/strong> \u201cIbn S\u012bn\u0101 on the Afterlife of the Soul\u201d
Tariq Jaffer (Yale University):<\/strong> \u201cAvicenna\u2019s Argument against Metempsychosis (tan\u0101sukh<\/em>) as Found in ar-Ris\u0101la al-A\u1e0d\u1e25aw\u012bya f\u012b amr al-ma\u02bf\u0101d<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, 18 March 2001<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Third Panel: Metaphysics<\/span><\/strong>
09am\u201312am<\/em>
Amos Bertolacci (Yale University):<\/strong> \u201cSome Remarks on the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna\u2019s Il\u0101h\u012by\u0101t<\/em> of the Shif\u0101\u02be <\/em>\u201d
Sajjad Rizvi (Cambridge University): <\/strong>\u201cProcess Metaphysics in Islam? Avicenna and Mull\u0101 \u1e62adr\u0101 on Intensification in Being\u201d
Toby Mayer (Oxford University):<\/strong> \u201cFakhr ad-D\u012bn ar-R\u0101z\u012b\u2019s Critique of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101\u2019s Argument for the Unity of God in the Ish\u0101r\u0101t<\/em>, and Nas\u012br ad-D\u012bn al-\u1e6c\u016bs\u012b\u2019s Defence\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth Panel: Reaction and Reception<\/span><\/strong>
01.30pm\u201305.20pm<\/em><\/em>
David C. Reisman (Yale University):<\/strong> \u201cIbn S\u012bn\u0101 and his Students: Preliminary Remarks on The Discussions<\/em>\u201d
Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University): <\/strong>\u201cRocks in the Heavens? The Encounter between \u02bfAbd al-Jabb\u0101r and Ibn S\u012bn\u0101\u201d
Ahmed H. al-Rahim (Yale University):<\/strong> \u201cThe Reception of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101 among Sh\u012b\u02bf\u012b Scholars\u201d
Hidemi Takahashi (Goethe University Frankfurt): <\/strong>\u201cThe Reception of Ibn S\u012bn\u0101 in Syriac: The Case of Gregory Barhebraeus\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n