Anna Akasoy

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Anna Ayşe Akasoy (born 1977) is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam, especially of al-Andalus, on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine, falconry and hunting.

Career[edit]

Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, where she received her doctorate in oriental studies in 2005. She then worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, where she worked on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries. This was followed by positions as a research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as a research assistant at the Center for Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum.[1]

Books[edit]

Akasoy's books include:

  • The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics (edited with Alexander Fidora, Brill, 2005)[2]
  • Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9 Jahrhundert (edited and translated with Stefan Georges, Akademie, 2005)[3]
  • Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit, die sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'īn (Brill, 2006)[4]
  • Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (edited with James E. Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann, The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007)[5]
  • Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Sismel–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008)[6]
  • Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ashgate, 2010)[7]
  • Rashīd al-Dīn: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, The Warburg Institute, 2013)[8]
  • Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (edited with Guido Giglioni, Springer, 2013)[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anna Akasoy". CUNY.
  2. ^ Review of The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics: José Meirinhos, Filosofia, doi:10.21747/974
  3. ^ Review of Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Emilie Savage-Smith, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, JSTOR 44448561
  4. ^ Reviews of Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit: Jules Janssens, "A Remarkable Thirteenth-Century Compendium of “Aristotelian” Philosophy: Ibn Sab’Ðn’s Sicilian Questions (Re: A Text and Study by Anna Akasoy)", Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, doi:10.1484/J.BPM.2.305764; Patrizia Spallino, Oriente Moderno, JSTOR 25818167; F. Woerther, Bulletin d'études orientales, JSTOR 41608584
  5. ^ Reviews of Islamic Crosspollinations: Francis Robinson, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, doi:10.1017/S1356186308009498; Kevin van Bladel, Journal of Islamic Studies, doi:10.1093/jis/etp021
  6. ^ Reviews of Astro-Medicine: Andrew Gregory, Medical History, doi:10.1017/S0025727300006530; Iolanda Ventura, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, doi:10.4000/crm.11782
  7. ^ Reviews of Islam and Tibet: Jacqueline Fewkes, Himalaya, [1]; Bianca Horlemann, Études Mongoles et Sibériennes Centrasiatiques et Tibétaines, doi:10.4000/emscat.2183; A.C. McKay, The Tibet Journal, [2]; Sam van Schaik, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, doi:10.1017/S0041977X11000590
  8. ^ Review of Rashīd al-Dīn: Frantz Chaigne, Abstracta Iranica, doi:10.4000/abstractairanica.42180
  9. ^ Reviews of Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Steven Harvey, Journal of the History of Philosophy, doi:10.1353/hph.2014.0064; Lucian Petrescu, Journal of Early and Modern Studies, [3]

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