"Philosophy in Islam: A Living History" Session
Date October, 18 2024
Location Frankfurt Book Fair
As part of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre’s activities in Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, in collaboration with "Litprom", organised a session titled "Philosophy in Islam: A Living History", during which translator Stefan Weidner and philosopher Prof Ahmad Milad Karimi discussed Dr Frank Griffel’s book "The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam". The speakers shed light on the Arabic-Islamic philosophy’s profound legacy and significant impact on global thought.
Speakers
Prof Dr Frank Griffel
Prof Dr Frank Griffel is a Professor of Abrahamic Religions in Oxford University and Sheikh Zayed Book Award winner in Arab Culture in Other Languages category (2024).
Prof Dr Ahmad Milad Karimi
Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster
Stefan Weidner
Stefan Weidner is a renowned German writer, translator, and literary critic, with a specialization in Arabic literature. In September 2019 his collection of critical essays, 1,001 Books, will be published by Edition Converso, Germany. Weidner will speak about this project, which situates Arabic literature in the context of world literature today, shedding new light onto it from the perspective of postcolonial theory on one hand and the interested Western readership on the other.