Séminaire d'études islamiques et séminaire de philosophie en Islam avec Peter ADAMSON

Seminar on Islamic Studies and Philosophy Seminar: dialogues, sources, translations

As part of the: Master in Islamic Studies / Master en Études islamiques. Organization: Olga L. Lizzini, Fârès Gillon, Jawdath Jabbour, Nadjet Zouggar, with the support of « Fondation AMidex » and IFI (Institut français d’islamologie).

Lecture by Prof. Peter ADAMSON (LMU, München) - "Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on God”.

Tuesday 4 November / Mardi 4 novembre 2025, 5:30-7:30 PM/17h30-19h30, Mmsh, A219 Room, Aix-en-Provence and Online (For the zoom link please contact Olga L. Lizzini at olga.lizzini@univ-amu.fr)

Peter Adamson’s research focuses on the philosophy of Late Antiquity and the Arabic tradition. His books concern the Arabic version of Plotinus, the philosophers al-Kindī and al-Rāzī, and authority in medieval philosophy. He has written articles on the following Greek authors: Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Damascius; and, in the Arabic tradition, al-Kindī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, Yahya Ibn ʿAdī, Miskawayh, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, and Ibn Khaldūn, among others. He has edited and co-edited several books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, three further volumes on philosophy in the Islamic world for the Warburg Institute, and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays for Cambridge University Press. Since 2012, Prof. Adamson has additionally held a part-time professorship at King’s College London, where he worked full-time from 2000 to 2012. He also produces the History of Philosophy podcast which has spawned a book series published by Oxford University Press.