The Warburg Institute
09 Jul 2021, 14:00 to 10 Jul 2021, 19:00
This conference will celebrate the recent publication of three books on or related to the cosmos and spirit in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern world from late Antiquity until the early modern period:
Juan Acevedo, Alphanumeric Cosmology from Greek into Arabic (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2020)
Michael-Sebastian Noble, Philosophizing the Occult: Avicennan Psychology and ‘The Hidden Secret’ of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2021)
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice, ed. Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki and Farouk Yahya (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021)
The primary aim of this conference is to make these books and their subject matter well known. The authors and editors will introduce their books, and invited scholars will talk about current research and future directions in the fields they cover. Since all the authors have been students or fellows at the Warburg Institute, it is appropriate that this event should be hosted by the institute, and the historical and continuiung involvement of the institute in these studies will be described.
The conference will take place between 2.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. (British Summer Time) on July 9 and July 10, 2021, and will include, aside from the contributions of the authors and editors, keynote addresses by Emilie Savage-Smith, Noah Gardiner, and Matthew Melvin-Koushki. Further scholars will be invited to talk at the Round Table, which will conclude the conference.
Liana Saif (University of Amsterdam)
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
