Philosophy in the Islamic World

Anke von Kügelgen is Professor emerita of Islamic studies at the University of Bern. Her main fields of research are reflected in her monographs and articles on the legitimization of power, Sufism, and moral concepts in Muslim Central Asia, as well as on the struggle for and against reason in Islamic intellectual history, the modern Arab reception of Averroes, and the determination of the relationship between science, philosophy and religion in the MENA region. She founded the book series Philosophy in the Modern Middle East (Klaus Schwarz/De Gruyter) and is the editor of the original German version Philosophie in der islamischen Welt 4: 19.-20. Jahrhundert. 1. Arabischer Sprachraum, 2. Türkei, Iran und Südasien (Schwabe: Basel/Berlin 2021). Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich. He has written monographs on the Arabic version of Plotinus, the so-called “Theology of Aristotle,” and on al-Kindi. He has devoted articles to many figures of the Greek and Arabic traditions, and edited and co-edited numerous books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essaysfor Cambridge University Press. He is also the author of the book series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, with Oxford University Press. Gwendolin Goldbloom (1969) has produced English translations of several books and a number of articles in the field of Islamic Studies, most of them originally published in German. Contributors Katajun Amirpur, Sadik Jalal al-Azm, Serpil Çakır, Frank Darwiche, Bettina Dennerlein, Sarhan Dhouib, Zeynep Direk, Michael Frey, Urs Gösken, Ursula Günther, Reza Hajatpour, Jan-Peter Hartung, Christoph Herzog, Elisabeth Susanne Kassab, Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi, Kata Moser, Sait Özervarlı, Nils Riecken, Sajjad Rizvi, Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Roman Seidel and Harald Viersen.