AAIWG Research Seminar: An International Live Video Seminar on Al-Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers
Discussion # 3
“On showing their obfuscation in saying that
God is the world’s enactor and maker . . . .”
Organizers:
Prof. Fehrullah Terkan, Ankara University
&
Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
Participants:
Professors:
Prof. Fehrullah Terkan, University of Ankara; Prof. Richard Taylor, Marquette University; Prof. Traci Phillipson, Marquette University; Prof. Therese S. Cory, University of Notre Dame; Prof. Luis López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamerican; Prof. Katja Krause, MPI, Berlin; Prof. Haris Macic, Katip Celebi University (Izmir); Prof. Ayse Oktay, Suleyman Demirel Universitesi (Isparta); E. M. Macierowski, Benedictine College, Kansas; Prof. Jianlu Wang, Heilongjiang University, China.
Graduate students:
Mr Brett Yardley, Marquette University; Mr Nick Oschman, Marquette University; Mr Mark Schulz, Marquette University; Ms Rayann Jabber, Marquette University; Ms Armagan Atar, University of Ankara; Mr Jacob Andrews, Loyola University of Chicago; Aysenur Erken, Ankara University.
Proposed times and dates on Saturday
Times: 9:30-11:30 am US Mountain; 10:30-12:30 US Central ; 11:30-1:30 US Eastern; 17h30-19h30 Central Europe; 18h30-20h30 Turkey.
Dates: all Saturday: #1: 29 September 2018; #2: 27 October 2018; #3: 23 February 2019, #4: 30 March 2019.
REQUIRED INTERNET TEST FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS: 22 September 2018 AT THE SCHEDULED TIME OF THE SEMINAR. 9:30 am US Mountain; 10:30 US Central ; 11:30 US Eastern; 17h30 Central Europe; 18h30 Turkey.
Marquette University Campus Location: Raynor Library 320a
General Format:
(a) Video lectures and/or texts of lectures will be posted for study one week in advance of seminars.
(b) Live video discussion via internet
2 hours:
Short introduction of no more than 10-15 minutes to issues by the assigned presenter.
Then the floor is open for discussion.
Schedule:
#1a: 29 September 2018: Short remarks on the Prefaces of al-Ghazali by Marquette and KULeuven graduate student Brett Yardley in 5 min., followed by short 15 min. open discussion. Brett will send out a written text and a link to a video presentation on 22 September or before.
(See video presentation and text distributed one week in advance.)
#1b: Avicenna background by Marquette graduate student Mark Schulz: 10 min. presentation then followed by 80 min. discussion. Mark will send out a written text and a link to a video presentation on 22 September or before.
(See video presentation and text distributed one week in advance.)
#2: 27 October 2018 al-Ghazali, Incoherence: Third Discussion: “On showing their obfuscation in saying that God is the world’s enactor and maker . . . “
Prof. Fehrullah Terkan. Prof. Haris Macic & Aysenur Erken: 15 min. short presentation followed by open discussion.
(See video presentation and text distributed one week in advance.)
#3: 23 February 2019 Ibn Rushd, Incoherence of the Incoherence Discussion 3; tr. Van Den Berg 1954; Arabic Bouyges 1930. Prof. Richard Taylor and Prof. Traci Phillipson, Marquette. Short 10-15 min. presentation followed by 100 min. discussion.
(See video presentation and text distributed one week in advance.)
9:30-11:30 am US Mountain; 10:30-12:30 US Central ; 11:30-13:30 US Eastern; 17h30-19h30 Central Europe; 17h30-19h30 Turkey.
#4: 30 March 2019 General discussion of texts studied led by Prof. Luiis López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana).
(See video presentations and texts distributed one week in advance.)
9:30-11:30 am US Mountain; 10:30-12:30 US Central ; 11:30-13:30 US Eastern; 17h30-19h30 Central Europe; 17h30-19h30 Turkey.
Some Introductory Video Lectures
on Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd
from the classes of Prof. Taylor
Ibn Sina:
Lecture 1 of 3: Click HERE.
Lecture 2 of 3: Click HERE.
Lecture 3 of 3: Click HERE.
al-Ghazali:
Lecture 1 of 2: Click HERE.
Lecture 2 of 2: Click HERE.
Ibn Rushd:
Lecture 1: Click HERE.