Averroes/Ibn Rushd and His Time

Monday 27

9:30 – 10:00 Delivery of materials
Welcome address

First Session

Ibn Rushd in the Juridical and Legal-Theoretical Milieu

Chair: Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid)

10:00 – 10:30 Delfina Serrano Ruano (CSIC, Madrid)

Averroes and his Family: The Making fan ‘Independent Legal Scholar’

10:30 – 11:00 Cristina Cerami (SPHERE-CNRS, Paris)

Averroes, the Commentator? Neo Aristotelianism as Juridical Hermeneutics

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Mourad Laabdi (Qatar University)

Negotiating Ikhtilāf and Ijmāʿ: Ibn Rushd’s Bidāyat al-Mujtahid and the Almohads’ Quest for Consensus

12:00 – 12:30 Kurnaz, Serdar (Humboldt University, Germany)

Ibn Rushd’s Legal Reasoning and Philosophy of Law: A Case Study on Ribā in Bidāyat al-Mujtahid

12:30 – 13:30 Discussion

13:45 Lunch

Second Session

Ibn Rushd’s Engagement with Kalām and Logic

Chair: Thomas Burman (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

16:30 – 17:00 José Bellver (CSIC-Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada):

Concepts of taʾwīl in al-Andalus and the Maghrib during the Almoravid and Almohad periods

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:00 Mokdad Arfa Mensia (University of Tunis, Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Carthage)

An Aberration of the Ashʿarite Theory on the Vision of God According to Ibn Rushd

18:00 – 18:30 Fouad Ben Ahmed (Qarawiyyin University, Rabat, Morocco)

Reassessing Ibn Rushd’s Theological Critique: From al-Ghazālī to al-Juwaynī”.

18:30 – 19:00 Charles E. Butterworth (University of Maryland, USA)

Taṣdīq and Taṣawwur in Averroes’ Logical Thought

19:00 – 20:00 Discussion

20:15 Dinner

Tuesday 28

Third Session

Natural Philosophy and the Dialectics of Knowledge

Chair: Fouad Ben Ahmed (Qarawiyyin University, Rabat)

10:00 – 10:30 Catarina Belo (American University, Cairo)

Averroes on Infinity in the Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics

10:30 – 11:00 Stephen Ogden (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

Averroes on Abstraction: Tradition, Avicenna, and Influence

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University, Milwakee, Wisconsin, USA)

Philosophy in Dialectical Context: Understanding Ibn Rushd’s Methodology in the Tahāfut al-tahāfut

12:00 – 13:00 Discussion

13:15 Lunch

Fourth Session

Ibn Rushd and the Scientific Traditions

Chair: Catarina Belo (American University, Cairo)

16:00 – 16:30 Forcada, Miquel (Universitat de Barcelona)

The sciences of the Ancients in the time of Ibn Rushd

16:30 – 17:00 Marc Moyon (Université de Limoges, France)

Mathematics Across Cultures: The Intellectual Context of Ibn Rushd’s Era

17:00 – 17:30 Joël Chandelier (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Averroes on Practical Medicine

17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break

18:00 – 18:30 Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)

Averroes as a Reader of Avicenna’s Medical Works

18:30 – 19:00 Luis Xavier López Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana, México DC)

Averroes on Medical Crises and Critical Days in al-Kulliyyāt

19:00 – 20:00 Discussion

20:15 Dinner

Wednesday 29

Fifth Session

Perspectives, Reception, and Transmission

Chair: Charles E. Butterworth (University of Maryland)

10:00 – 10:30 Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid):

Averroes’ Remarks on Contemporary Politics

10:30 – 11:00 Yoav Meyrav (Universität Hamburg, Deutschland)

Averroes Hebraicus: State of the Art and Future Directions

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Burman, Thomas (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

How Ramon Marti Read his Ibn Rushd

12:00 – 12:30 Pablo Montosa (Universitat de Barcelona)

Translating Ibn Rushd, Translating Averroes. Some Examples and Reflections

12:30 – 13:30 Discussion

13:45 Farewell Lunch