CANAL-U

Centre de Wulf Mansion, Louvain

Since 1996 : vrijwillig Medewerker (25%) (Collaborator), De Wulf-Mansioncentrum, Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (Higher Institute for Philosophy), KULeuven Since 1997 charged with the edition of the Avicenna Latinus, Physics 2 and 3, by the Académie Royale de Belgique (Royal Academy of Belgiem, French section). Since september 2007 : chercheur associé (associated researcher) of CNRS, Paris

Participation in many international congresses in both in Europe and outside Europe (inter alia, Spain (Vic and Cordoba), France (I.R.H.T.), England (Cambridge), Italy (Villa Vigoni-conference on Avicenna), U.S.A. (APA,, Yale and Princeton) ;, Iran (Mullâ Sadrâ-conference), Turkey (Ibn Sînâ Sempyozu 2008, as well as other colloquia) Private lectures at diverse universities or related institutes (Belgium : RUGent, ULBruxelles ; Outside Belgium : Oxford, Centre for Islamic Studies ; Harvard, Semitic Seminar ; Paris –CRNS)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ph.-D. Thesis

Avicenna : tussen neoplatonisme en islam (Avicenna. Between Neoplatonism and Islam). Leuven, K.U. Leuven, 1984 (xeroxed).

Books

An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ (1970-1989). Including Arabic and Persian Publications, and Turkish and Russian References (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series I, vol. XIII). Leuven, University Press, 1991.

An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ : First Supplement (1990-1994) (FIDEM, Textes et études du Moyen Age, 12). Louvain-la-Neuve, FIDEM, 1999.

J. JANSSENS and D. DE SMET (eds), Avicenna and His Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium Leuven - Louvain-la-Neuve, September 8 - September 11, 1999. (De Wulf-Mansioncentrum. Ser. I. Ancient and medieval Philosophy, vol. 28). Leuven, Univ. Press., 2002.

(all published with the support of the University Foundation)

Ibn Sînæ and His Influence on the Arabic and Latin World (Variorum Reprints, CS 843). Aldershot, Hampshire, Ashgate, 2006.

Vocabulaire d’Avicenne, in : J.-P. ZARADER (coörd.), Le vocabulaire des philosophes. Suppléments I (Volume V). Paris, Ellipses, 2006, pp. 13-64.

Avicenna Latinus. Liber primus Naturalium. Tractatus secundus. De motu et de consimilibus, édition critique par S. VAN RIET(†), J. JANSSENS, A. ALLARD. Introduction doctrinale par G. VERBEKE. (Bruxelles), Académie Royale de Belgique, 2006.

Papers

Le Dânesh-Nâmeh d’Ibn Sînâ : un texte à revoir ?, in : Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 28 (86), 163-177.

Ibn Sînâ’s Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning. Neoplatonism and the Qur’ân as Problem-Solving Paradigms in the Avicennian System, in : Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 10 (87), 252-271.

(this paper received the URAM Award for Excellence in Creative Scholarly Writing)

Filosofische elementen in de mystieke leer van al-Ghazzâlî, in : Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 50 (88), 334-342.

L’idéal politique selon le Nahj al-Balâghah, in : al-Muntaka, 5 (89-90), 9-33.

Le Ma‘ârij al-quds fî madârij ma‘rifat al-nafs : un élément-clé pour le dossier Ghazzâlî-Ibn Sînâ ?, in : Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 60 (93), 27-55.

Le Livre des Religions et des Sectes d’al-Shahrastânî : une conception particulière de l’historiographie de la pensée, in : Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 35 (93), 106-112.

The Idea of God in al-Kindî, in : Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 17 (94), 4-16.

Some Elements of Avicennian Influence on Henry of Ghent’s Psychology, in : Henry of Ghent. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on the Occasion of the 700th. Anniversary of his Death (1293). Leuven, University Press, 1996, 155 - 169.

The Problem of Human Freedom in Ibn Sînâ, in : Actes des Simposi Internacional de Filosofia de l’Edat Mitjana. El pensament antropològico medieval en els àmbits islàmic, hebreu i cristià (Vic-Gerona, 11 - 16 abril de 1993). Vic, Patr. d’est. Oson., 1996, 112 - 118.

De islam : droom of schrikbeeld ?, in : Kultuurleven, 63 6 (96), 40 -43.

Creation and Emanation in Ibn Sînâ, in : Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 8 (97). 455 - 477.

Les Ta‘lîqât d’Ibn Sînâ, essai de structuration et de datation, in : Languages et Philosophie. Hommage à Jean Jolivet. Éd. par A. DE LIBERA, A. ELAMRANI-JAMAL, A. GALONNIER. Paris, Vrin, 1997, 109 - 122.

Le Livre des définitions d’al-Jurjânî : un dictionnaire scientifique bien particulier, in : Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 39 (97), 131 - 145.

Ibn Sînâ (Avicenne) : un projet religieux de philosophie ?, in : JAN A. AERTSEN und ANDREAS SPEER (Hrsg.), in : Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter ? (Misc. Med., Bd. 26). Berlin, New York, W. de Gruyter, 1998, 863-870.

L’Avicenne latin : un témoin (indirect) des commentateurs (Alexandre d’Aphrodise,- Thémistius-Jean Philopon), in : R. BEYERS, J. BRAMS, D. SACRE, K. VERRYCKEN (eds), Tradition et traduction. Les textes philosophiques et scientifiques au moyen âge latin. Hommage à F. Bossier. Leuven, Univ. Press, 1999, 89-105.

Al-Ghazzâlî’s Tahâfut : is it really a rejection of Ibn Sînâ’s Philosophy ?, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 121 (2001), 1-17.

Ibrahim’in Rehberliƒinde : Hosgörü Sahibi Bir Nesil Yetistirmek (or. English Title : In the Faith of Abraham : Educating Young people in the Spirit of Real Tolerance), in : MEHMET S. AYDIN (ed), Hazret-i Ibrahim’in Izinde. Istanbul, Gazeteciler ve Yazarlar Vakfi yayinlari, 2001, 225-240.

L’Avicenne latin : particularités d’une traduction, in : J. JANSSENS and D. DE SMET (eds), Avicenna and His Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium Leuven - Louvain-la-Neuve, September 8 - September 11, 1999. (De Wulf-Mansioncentrum. Ser. I. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, vol. 28). Leuven, Univ. Press., 2002, 113-129.

Mullâ Sadrâ’s Use of ibn Sînâ’s Ta‘lîqât in the Asfâr, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 13 (2002), 1-17.

Al-Ghazzælî’s Mi`yær al-‘ilm fî fann al-man†iq : sources avicenniennes et farabiennes, in : Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 69 (2002), 39-66.

Bahmanyær ibn Marzubæn : A Faithful disciple of Ibn Sînæ ?, in : DAVID C. REISMAN with the assistance of AHMED H. AL-RAHIM (ed), Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group (IPTS, LII). Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. 177-197.

Elements of Avicennian Metaphysics in the Summa, in : G. GULDENTOPS and C. STEEL (ed), Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought. Studies in Memory of Jos Decorte (De Wulf-Mansioncentrum. Ser. I. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, vol. 31). Leuven, Univ. Press., 2003, 41-59.

Al-flazælî, and His Use of Avicennian texts, in : M. MAROTH (ed), Problems in Arabic Philosophy. Piliscsaba, The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2003, 37-49.

Avicenne et sa “paraphrase-commentaire”du livre Lambda (Kitæb al-InÒæf), in : Recherches de Théologie et de Philosophie médiévales, 70 (2003), 401-416.

Avicenna and the Qur’ân. A Survey of his Qur’anic Commentaries, in : MIDEO, 25-26 (2004), 177-192.

Al-Ghazzâlî’s Political Thought : Elements of Greek Philosophical Influence, in : E. Gannagé, P. Crone, M. Aouad, D. Gutas and E. Schütrumpf (eds), The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought. Proceedings of the Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 16-27 June 2003, Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph, 57 (2004), 393-410

The Notions of Wæhib al-Òuwar (Giver of Forms) and Wæhib al-‘aql (Bestower of Intelligence) in Ibn Sînâ, in : M. C. PACHECO and J. F. MEIRINHOS (eds), Intellect et Imagination dans la Philosophie Médiévale (Actes du XIe Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la SIEPM. Porto, du 26 au 31 août 2002) (rencontres de philosophie médiévale, 11). Turnhout, Brepols, 2006, 551-562

The Reception of Avicenna’s Physics in the Latin Middle Ages, in : Arnoud Vrolijk and Jan P. Hogendijk (eds), O ye Gentlemen : Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture in honour of Remke Kruk (IPTS, 74). Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2007, 55-64.

Some Classics of Islamic Philosophy and their Reception in the Western World, in H. Özlan, N. Ardiç and A. Arli (eds), Medeniyet ve-Klasik (Medeniyet Arastirmalari 1). Istanbul, Klasik, 2007, 197-213.

A Remarkable Thirteenth Century Compendium of “Aristotelian” Philosophy : Ibn Sab‘în‘s Sicilian Questions (Re/ A Text and Study by Anna Akasoy), in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 49 (2007), 51-66.

L’âme-miroir : al-azælî entre philosophie et mysticisme, in D. De Smet, M. Sebti et G. De Gallataÿ éd), Miroir et savoir. La transmission d’un thème platonicien, des Alexandrins à la philosophie arabo-musulmane. Actes du Colloque International tenu à Leuven et Louvain-la-Neuve les 17 et 18 novembre 2005. Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2008, pp. 203-217.

Al-Ghazælî’s Mizæn al-‘amal : an Ethical Summa Based on Ibn Sînæ and Ræghib al-Isfahænî, in A. Akasoy and W. Raven (eds), Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in honour of Hans Daiber (IPTS, 75). Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. 123-137.

Al-Kindî : The Founder of Philosophical Exegesis of the Qur’æn, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies, IX (2007), pp. 1- 21.

Many critical reviews, especially in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, but also in Revue philosophique de Louvain, Le Muséon, Journal of Ancient Philosophy and MIDEO. Major recent ones are : CR. of R. ARNZEN (Hrsg), Aristoteles’ De Anima. Eine verlorene spätantike Paraphrase in arabischer und persischer Überlieferung (Aristoteles semitico-latinus, 9). Leiden, 1998, in : Le Muséon, 111 (1998), 462-468 CR. of AVERROES, L’intelligence et la pensée. Grand Commentaire du “De Anima”, livre III. Trad., introd. et notes par A. de LIBERA. Paris, 1998, in : Revue philosophique de Louvain, (1998), 720-729. CR. of H. DAIBER, Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, in : Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 42 (2000), 155-162. Averroïstica, in : MIDEO, 24 (2000), 415-422. CR. of Y. MICHOT, Ibn Sînâ. Lettre au vizir Abû Sa’d. Editio princeps d’après le manuscrit de Bursa, in : Arabica, 49 (2002), 395-397 CR. of FR. GRIFFEL, Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam : Die Entwicklung zu al-flazælîs Urteil gegen die Philosophie iune die Reaktionen der Philosophen, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 14 (2003), 69-72. CR. of M. GEOFFROY et C. STEEL (ed. et trad.), La béatitude de l’âme, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 14 (2003), 219-223. CR. of E. MOOSA, Ghazælî and the Poetis of Imagination, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 17 (2007), 250-253. CR. of C. BELO, Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes, in : Journal of Islamic Studies, 19 (2008), pp. 100-104. CR. of J. LAMEER, Conception and Belief in Sadr al-Dîn Shîrâzî (ca. 1571-1635). Al-risâla fî l-taÒawwur wa-l-taÒdîq. Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, in : Bibliotheca Orientalis, 651-2 (2008), 258-262

In preparation :

Together with M. Geoffroy (CNRS, IRHT, Paris) and M. Sebti (CNRS, Paris) : critical edition, annotated French translation, Introduction and Commentary of Ibn Sînâ’s Paraphrasis of Metaphysics, book Lambda (c. 6-10) (K. al-insâf) – scheduled for 2008-9)

Avicenna Latinus. Liber primus naturalium. Tractatus tertius (scheduled for 2009)

An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ. Second supplement (scheduled for 2009)

La noétique d’al-Ghazzâlî (projet noétique de philosophie arabe-scheduled for 2009)

Ibn Sînâ : An Extrordinary Historian of the Sciences (accepted for the acts of the Ibn Sempyozu colloquium Istanbul, 2008)

Henry of Ghent and Avicenna ; Henry of Ghent and Averroes (to be pubished in G. Wilson (ed), Companion to Henry of Ghent-scheduled 2009-2010)

“The Avicenna latinus” and “al-Ghazali’s MaqâÒid”, both for Encyclopaedia of Medieval Philosophy (to be published in 2009)

Al-Lawkærî’s Reception fo the Ilæhiyyæt of Ibn Sînæ (to be published in the acts of the Villa Vigoni 2008 colloquium on the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics)

Pubications accepted some time ago, but of which it is not clear whether they will be ever published :

The Latin translation Movement (chapter of The Blackwell History of Philosophy in the Middle Ages, eds. J. Inglis, D. Frank and T. Kukkonen (publication scheduled for 2008 ?).

Ibn Rushd et sa critique d’Ibn Bâjjah (dans le Grand commentaire sur le De Anima), in the Proceedings of the Ibn Rushd, 1998-conference at Cordoba (proceedings are now announced for 2008 ?)

La reception de la Physique d’Ibn Sînâ (Namur, SIHSPAI, janvier 2003), (to be published in the acts of the colloquium)

Al-Ghazzælî : The Introduction of Peripatetic Syllogistic Theory in Islamic Law (and Kalæm) (Cambridge, march 2004 ; accepted for publication in MIDEO 2010)

International Communications not intended to be published :

Al-Ghazzâlî’s Spiritual Crisis : A Conversion from falsafa to Sufism ? (lecture given at Harvard (Dpt. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, March 2001)

The Reception of Islamic Philosophy in the West (for general public, Istanbul, january 2004)