Anna Ayşe Akasoy (born 1977) is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam, especially of al-Andalus, on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine, falconry and hunting.

Career edit

Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, where she received her doctorate in oriental studies in 2005. She then worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, where she worked on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries. This was followed by positions as a research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as a research assistant at the Center for Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum.[1]

Books edit

Akasoy's books include:

  • The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics (edited with Alexander Fidora, Brill, 2005)[2]
  • Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9 Jahrhundert (edited and translated with Stefan Georges, Akademie, 2005)[3]
  • Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit, die sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'īn (Brill, 2006)[4]
  • Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (edited with James E. Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann, The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007)[5]
  • Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Sismel–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008)[6]
  • Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ashgate, 2010)[7]
  • Rashīd al-Dīn: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, The Warburg Institute, 2013)[8]
  • Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (edited with Guido Giglioni, Springer, 2013)[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Anna Akasoy". CUNY.
  2. ^ Review of The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics: José Meirinhos, Filosofia, doi:10.21747/974
  3. ^ Review of Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Emilie Savage-Smith, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, JSTOR 44448561
  4. ^ Reviews of Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit: Jules Janssens, "A Remarkable Thirteenth-Century Compendium of “Aristotelian” Philosophy: Ibn Sab’Ðn’s Sicilian Questions (Re: A Text and Study by Anna Akasoy)", Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, doi:10.1484/J.BPM.2.305764; Patrizia Spallino, Oriente Moderno, JSTOR 25818167; F. Woerther, Bulletin d'études orientales, JSTOR 41608584
  5. ^ Reviews of Islamic Crosspollinations: Francis Robinson, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, doi:10.1017/S1356186308009498; Kevin van Bladel, Journal of Islamic Studies, doi:10.1093/jis/etp021
  6. ^ Reviews of Astro-Medicine: Andrew Gregory, Medical History, doi:10.1017/S0025727300006530; Iolanda Ventura, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, doi:10.4000/crm.11782
  7. ^ Reviews of Islam and Tibet: Jacqueline Fewkes, Himalaya, [1]; Bianca Horlemann, Études Mongoles et Sibériennes Centrasiatiques et Tibétaines, doi:10.4000/emscat.2183; A.C. McKay, The Tibet Journal, [2]; Sam van Schaik, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, doi:10.1017/S0041977X11000590
  8. ^ Review of Rashīd al-Dīn: Frantz Chaigne, Abstracta Iranica, doi:10.4000/abstractairanica.42180
  9. ^ Reviews of Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Steven Harvey, Journal of the History of Philosophy, doi:10.1353/hph.2014.0064; Lucian Petrescu, Journal of Early and Modern Studies, [3]

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