Notes on Contributors
Asad Q. Ahmed is Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Ḥijāz (2011), Avicenna’s Deliverance (2011), and Palimpsests of Themselves (2022).
Zhenyu Cai completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2022 and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Peking University, Beijing.
Daniel Davies has worked at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the University of Cambridge and on Pre-Modern Philosophical and Scientific Hebrew Terminology at Universität Hamburg. His monograph, Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed (OUP, 2011) received an honorary mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. Other books include Interpreting Maimonides, edited with Charles H. Manekin (CUP, 2019), and Maimonides (Polity, 2024). Additionally, he has written on wider Jewish philosophy and on aspects of the Arabic-to-Hebrew translation movement. He is currently working on Abraham Ibn Daud’s Exalted Faith for the Gross Library of Jewish Philosophy published by OUP.
Khaled El-Rouayheb is Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University. He is the author of Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic (2010), Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century (2015), and The Development of Arabic Logic (2019).
Osama Eshera is Assistant Research Professor at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland. His critical editions and English translations of Avicenna’s al-Mabdaʾ wa-l-maʿād and the Ilāhiyyāt of Kitāb al-Najāt are forthcoming with De Gruyter, Scientia Graeco-Arabica.
Dustin Klinger is the author of Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500 (University of California Press, 2024). Currently he is a British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Tareq Moqbel is a Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.
Shahid Rahman was born in New Delhi and is a holder of German citizenship. Rahman is a full professor for logic and epistemology at the University of Lille, France since 2001. He holds a Masters in Philosophy, Mathematics and Philology from Erlangen-Nürnberg, a Ph.D. in philosophy, psychology and philology and a Habilitation in Philosophy from the University of Saarland. He co-edits two book series in Springer and four more in College Publications. His main research covers a large range of topics in philosophy and history of logic including, the dialogical foundations of Constructive Type Theory, Non-Classical Logics, Arabic Logic and Islamic Debate Theory. Along with colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Geneva, Rahman has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant 2024 for the 6 years project RevLog: Logic in Reverse: Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Latin Tradition, led by L. Gazziero (CNRS) R. Padlina (U. Genève), S. Rahman (U. Lille), T. Street (U. Cambridge).
Fateme Savadi is a specialist in the history of science and philosophy in the premodern Islamic world. She previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University on the project Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Supercommentary on al-Dawānī’s Commentary on al-Ījī’s Creed: A New Source for the Renewal of Islamic Analytical Theology.
Cornelia Schoeck is Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), Ph.D. 1993 (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany), Habilitation and venia legendi 2002 (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg). She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Arabic and Islamic studies, history of religions, and philosophy. After years of participation in research projects and teaching at the universities of Lausanne (Switzerland), Kiel (Germany), Freiburg (Germany), Cambridge (UK) and Berlin (Germany) she was appointed professor 2008 at Ruhr University Bochum. Her research and publications focus on the history of Islam, Islamic theology, Qurʾānic studies and Arabic logic.
Alioune Seck was born in Dakar, Senegal. In 2018, he obtained a Master’s degree from the Department of Persian Literature and Civilisation at the University Cheikh Anta DIOP in Dakar, with a Master’s thesis on al-Kindī and al-Fārābī, supervised by Prof. Khassim Diakhate. He holds a Ph.D. thesis on Suhrawardī’s temporal logic and epistemology of presence from the University of Lille, France, under the supervision of Prof. Shahid Rahman. Seck’s field of research include the epistemological role of time in Suhrawardī’s philosophy, prophecy and knowledge in al-Kindī and al-Fārābī, dialogical temporal logic and dialogical Islamic deontic logic.
Riccardo Stroino is Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Tufts University. His works include Avicenna’s Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology (UC Press, 2021) and The Development of Newton’s Principia during 1685: A Variorum Translation of De Motu Corporum, Liber Secundus by George E. Smith, Riccardo Strobino, and Anne Withman with Commentary by George E. Smith and Samia Hesni (Springer, forthcoming).
Paul Thom is an Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities at The University of Sydney. He has published widely on history of logic in both the Arabic and Latin traditions.
Silvia Di Vincenzo Ph.D. (2018, Scuola Normale Superiore and École Pratique des Hautes Études), is an Associate Professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. From 2019 to 2025, she held positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CNRS—Centre Paul Albert Février in Aix-en-Provence and as an Assistant Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant on the ERC project “PhiBor” at Scuola Normale Superiore and contributed to the “PhiC/PhASIF” project at CNRS. Her book, Avicenna, The Healing, Logic: Isagoge—A New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (De Gruyter 2021), received the 30th World Award of Book of the Year in Iran.
Robert Wisnovsky is James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy in the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. He is the author of Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context (2003) as well as numerous articles on the history of classical and post-classical Arabic-Islamic philosophy and theology.
Walter Edward Young is a researcher and lecturer in Islamic argumentation & disputation theory, Islamic law & legal theory, and Islamicate Intellectual History more broadly. He is the author of The Dialectical Forge (Springer, 2017) and some two dozen published and forthcoming articles and book chapters, and a core contributor to an international movement which seeks to revive and practice Islamic critical thinking and argumentation theories, especially dialectical disputation methods (jadal / munāẓara / ādāb al-baḥth).
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. He is the author of Medieval Finitism (CUP 2024), Necessary Existence and Monotheism (CUP 2022), and the (co-)editor of Global Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP 2024), Islamic Philosophy of Religion (Routledge 2024), and Mathematics, Logic, and their Philosophies (Springer 2021).
Tianyi Zhang Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, 2019), is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is the author of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationism: Light in the Cave (Brill, 2023).