Rabat

 

The Fondation Aboubakr el-Kadiri Pour La Culture The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group

Present a workshop on

Averroes’s Thought: Sources and Influences

Rabat, Morocco, March 12-13, March 2018

March 12, 2018

Chair: Josep Puig Montada

9:30am: Welcome Address, Mr. Khalid el-Kadiri, President, The Aboubakr al-Kadiri for Culture

9:45am: Opening remarks: Prof. Abdou Filali-Ansary and Prof. Richard Taylor.

10:00-11:00am: Luis López Farjeat, “Avicenna and Averroes on Perception and Animal Self-

Awareness.” (English)

11:15am-12:15pm: Richard Taylor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, “The Bivalence of Ibn Rushd’s Worldview.” (English)

12:15-1:15pm: Abdou Filali-Ansary, Institute for the Studies of Islamic Civilizations, London, “Ibn Rushd in Our Words: Truth, Social Order and the Ideal Order.” (English)

Luncheon at the Foundation

Chair: Terrence Kleven

2:15-3:15pm: Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal, CNRS, Paris, « L’argumentation de Thomas d’Aquin contre la noétique d’Averroès et ses fondements dogmatiques d’après le De Unitate intellectus contra Averroïstas.» (French)

3:15-4:15pm: Josep Puig Montada, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, «Averroès, l’intellect acquis.» (French)

4:30-5:30pm: Mohammed Essadki, University of  Sidi Mohahammed Ben Abd Allah, Fes, “Revisiting the debate on Averroism and Ghazalianism in the Islamic West during the Thirteenth Century.” (Arabic).

4:30-5:30pm: Younes Ajoun, University of Sidi Mohahammed Ben Abd Allah, Fes, “Philosophical Works of Abdelatif al-Baghdādī and Ibn Rushd: Preliminary Remarks.” (Arabic).

 

March 13, 2018

Chair: Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal

9:00-10:00am: David Twetten, Marquette University, Milwaukee, “Why the Prime Mover Is Not an Exclusively Final Cause: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes.” (English)

10:00am-11:00pm: Mhamed Ait Hamou, University of Sidi Mohahammed Ben Abd Allah, Fes, “Philosophy and Kālām (Rational Theology) after Ibn Rushd: Ibn Ṭumlūs and al-Miklātī.” (Arabic)

11:15am-12:15pm: Fouad Ben Ahmed, Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania, Rabat, “Logic in the Thirteenth Century in Muslim Spain: Ibn Ṭumlūs’s Compendium on Logic.” (in English).

12:15-1:00pm: Concluding Debate.

6:00-8:00pm: Open Session: “Averroes Today: Interpretative Strategies.” Round Table with contributions by Abdou Filali-Ansary, Richard Taylor, Abdelali Amrani Jamal, Fouad Ben Ahmed.

9:00pm: Dinner for speakers and guests

Organizers: Abdou Filali-Ansary, Richard Taylor, Luis López Farjeat, and Fouad Ben Ahmed

 

 

Marrakech

 

Organized by Jamal Rachek & Richard C. Taylor

Languages: Arabic, French, English

Program of Presentations

Thursday 15 March 2018

9:30 – 9:40am: Mot du Doyen de FLSHM

9:40-9:50am: Mot du président de  AAIWG

9:50-10:00am: Mot de la directrice du Laboratoire

First work session : Directed by Med Maouhoub

10:00-10:20am: Richard Taylor (Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, & DWMC KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, Belgium)

“Averroes’s Critique of  Ibn Bāğğa on Abstraction”

10:20-10:40am: Jamal Rachak (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco)

“La représentation et les formes spirituels chez Ibn Bāğğa”

11:10-11:30am: Mohammed Lachkar (Moulay-Ismaïl University, Meknes, Morocco)

“Le problème de l’interprétation  chez Alghazali”

11:30-11:50am: Mohamed Abouhafs (Moulay-Ismaïl University, Meknes, Morocco)

“La médecine chez Ibn Bāğğa”

12:00-12:20pm: Debate

Second work session: Directed by Michael Chase

3:00-3:30pm: Irfan Omar (Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)

“Al-Ghazali’s notion of Knowledge in light of his Views on Prophet al-Khidr.”

4:30-5:00pm: David Twetten (Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)

“Knowing the Essence-Existence Distinction : al-Ghazali as the Key to Aquinas’ Teaching”

5:00-5:30pm: Youssef El Amari (Regional Academy of Education and Formation, Tangier-Tetouan-al-Hoceima, Morocco)

“Facing the ‘double-truth’ and making space for human knowledge. Ibn Rušd, Aquinas, and Galileo”

5:30-6:00pm: Debate

 

Friday 16 March 2018

First work session : Directed by Richard Taylor

9:30-10:00am: Michael Chase (CNRS, Paris, France)

“The scientific epistemology of al-Naẓẓām”

10:00-10:30am: Mohamed Maouhoub (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco) “Esquisses d’une désobstruction de la pensée islamique”

 

11:00-11:30am: Mohamed El Boughali (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco) “Ibn Masarra et son disciple Arru‘aynī critiqués par Ibn Ḥazm”

11:30am-12:00pm: Hadel Jarada (Postdoc. Scholar, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

“Ethical Value in Post-Classical Māturīdī Kalām”

12:00-12:30pm: Aziz Abou Charaa (Université Ibn Tofaïl, Kenitra, Morocco)

La présence de la philosophie dans l’espace de Fiqh et Kalām en occident musulman entre14ème et 17ème siècle

Second work session : Directed by Luis López-Farjeat

(Associate Director of the AAIWG)

3:00-3:30pm: Terrence Kleven (Central College, Pella, Iowa, USA)

“Dialectic as a Necessary Preparation for Demonstration in al-Fārābī’s Book of Dialectic (Kitāb al-Ğadal)

3:30-4:00pm: Janis Esots (Ismaili Institute, London, UK)

“Mullā Ṣadrā’s Reappraisal of Suhrawardī’s Epistemology, or What Is the True Illuminative Relation?”

4:00-4:30pm: Celia López Alcalde (University of Porto, Portugal)

“Knowledge as Natural Illumination and Rabi Moses in Petrus Hispanus’ Commentary on the De anima

5:00-5:30pm: Hammadi Habad (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech,  Morocco)

“Philoponus against Proclus on  ‘al-ğūd’ vs ‘al-wuğūd’”

5:30-6:00pm: Allan Neves (Visiting PhD Candidate, State University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, & Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco)

“Vestiges of Epistemology in Proclus Arabus”

 

Saturday 17 March 2018

9:30am-12:00pm:  Visite guidé à la médina de Marrakech

12:30-5:00pm: Déjeuner (à cotisation individuel de 100dh (12$) par personne) et balade dans la vallée d’Ourika (30km de Marrakech)