Position:

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute

Email:

anna.akasoy@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Intellectual history of al-Andalus; Islamic philosophy; Arabic veterinary science, falconry & hunting

Current Projects:

• The presence of Andalusian scholars in the Eastern Mediterranean
• German translation of al-Kindi's First Philosophy

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Islam
• Islamic History, 570-1500
• Arabic Further Subject: Jihad in the Classical and Medieval Period'

Recent Publications:

Monographs:

• Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit. Die Sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'in (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 59; Leiden: Brill, 2006).
• The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics. Edited by Anna A. Akasoy and Alexander Fidora with an Introduction and Annotated English translation by Douglas M. Dunlop (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, 17; Leiden: Brill, 2005).
• Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Bazyar: Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil. Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9. Jahrhundert. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und eingeleitet von Anna Akasoy und Stefan Georges (Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 11; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005).

Edited Volumes:

• Islam and Tibet. Interactions along the Musk Routes, Edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Farnham, 2010).
  http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754669562
• Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Translation and Transmission in Honour of Hans Daiber. Edited with Wim Raven (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 75; Leiden: Brill, 2008).
• Astro-medicine: Medicine and Astrology, East and West. Edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Micrologus Library; Florence, 2008).
• Islamic Crosspollinations. Interactions in the Medieval Middle East. Edited with James Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann (Oxford, 2007).

Articles:

• ‘Convivencia and its Discontents: Interfaith Life in al-Andalus’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010), 489-499.
• ‘The al-Ghazālī Conspiracy. Reflections on the Inter-Mediterranean Dimension of Islamic Intellectual History’, in Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.), Avicenna and his Legacy. A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (Turnhout, 2009), 117-142.
• ‘Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography’, in Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions , 17-41.
• ‘Niffarī: a Sufi Mahdi of the Fourth/Tenth Century?’, in Wolfram Brandes, Felicitas Schmieder (eds), Antichrist. Konstruktionen von Feindbildern (Berlin, 2010), 39-67.
• ‘6 Raǧab 707 – 17 Raǧab 708. Das Jahr 1308 aus islamischer Perspektive’, in Andreas Speer and David Wirmer (eds), 1308. Eine Topographie historischer Gleichzeitigkeit (Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 35; Berlin, New York, 2010), 923-935.
• ‘Ibn Sīnā in the Arab West: the Testimony of an Andalusian Sufi’, in Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 21 (2010), 287-312.
• ‘Alexander in the Himalayas: Competing Imperial Legacies in Medieval Islamic History and Literature’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 72 (2009), 1-20.
• Ibn Sab'in’s Sicilian Questions: the Text, its Sources, and their Historical Context’, al-Qantara 29/1 (2008), 115-146.
• Ibn Sab'in and Raimundus Lullus – The Question of the Arabic Sources of Lullus’ Logic Revisited’, in Anna Akasoy and Wim Raven (eds), Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages (Leiden, 2008), 433-458. (with Alexander Fidora)
•  ‘The Muhaqqiq as Mahdi? Ibn Sab'in and Mahdism among Andalusian Mystics in the 12th/13th Centuries’, in Wolfram Brandes and Felicitas Schmieder (eds), Endzeiten. Eschatologie in den monotheistischen Weltreligionen (Berlin/New York, 2008), 313-337.
• ‘Patronage für Mystiker und Philosophen im arabischen Westen’, in Ulrich Oevermann, Johannes Süßmann and Christine Tauber (eds), Die Kunst der Mächtigen und die Macht der Kunst. Untersuchungen zu Mäzenatentum und Kulturpatronage (Berlin, 2007), 73-87.
• ‘Maimónides y la emigración andalusí’, in José Luis Cantón Alonso (ed.), Maimónides y el pensamiento medieval. VIII Centenario de la muerte de Maimónides, Actas del IV Congreso Nacional de Filosofía Medieval (Cordova, 2007), 113-120.
•  ‘Along the Musk Routes. Exchanges between Tibet and the Islamic World’, in Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 3/2 (2007), 217-240. (with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim)
• ‘The Influence of the Arabic Tradition of Falconry and Hunting on European Culture’, in Anna Akasoy, James Montgomery and Peter Pormann (eds), Islamic Crosspollinations (Oxford, 2007), 46-64.
• ‘Zu den arabischen Vorlagen des Moamin’, in Johannes Fried and Gundula Grebner (eds), Kulturtransfer und Hofgesellschaft im Mittelalter, Wissenskultur am sizilianischen und kastilischen Hof im 13. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2008), 147-156. [printed without author’s corrections; corrected version]

Forthcoming Articles:

• ‘Paganism and Islam. Medieval Arabic Literature on Religions in West Africa’, in Proceedings of the Conference Paganism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Cambridge University, 19-20 September 2006, ed. John Marenbon and Carlos Steel (forthcoming)
• ‘Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy: Latin and Byzantine Perspectives’, in Proceedings of the Conference The Renaissance and the Ottoman World, Warburg Institute/SOAS, May 2005 (in press)
• ‘Al-Andalus in Exile. Identity and Diversity in Islamic Intellectual History’, in Alexander Fidora, Matthias Tischler (eds), Proceedings of the conference Christlicher Norden, Muslimischer Süden, Frankfurt, June 2007 (accepted)
• What is philosophical Sufism?’, in Peter Adamson (ed.), The Age of Averroes (forthcoming)
• ‘Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate, and its Philosophical Implications’, in Anna Akasoy and Guido Giglioni (eds.), Proceedings of the conference Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath, Warburg Institute 2008 (forthcoming)
• ‘The Buddha and the Straight Path: Rashīd al-Dīn’s Life of the Buddha – Islamic Perspectives’, in Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (eds), Rashīd al-Dīn, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (forthcoming)
• ‘Aristotle’s Ethics in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy’, in Jon Miller (ed.), Studies in the Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics (in preparation)