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Academic year 2022-23
Starting 1 October.
Classical Islamic Philosophy. A thematic introduction (L. X. López-Farjeat, 2022)
- Eight sessions in accordance with the chapters of the book
- October 1st and third Saturdays of every month, 10 am CDT
- Open to serious undergraduate and graduate students who agree to prepare for each meeting
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Fall 2021: Latin: Beginning. Latin Readings of Philosophical Texts from Aquinas, De Ente et essencia. Saturdays 9 am US Central Time for 60-75 min. on Microsoft TEAMS starting 11 September. The expectation is each student will do 4-6 hours preparation. All students should have completed study of Latin grammar roughly equivalent to Wheelock’s Latin Grammar. Interested students should email Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.
Fall 2021: Latin: Intermediate Latin Readings of Philosophical Texts. Mondays 9 am US Central Time for 60-75 min. on Microsoft TEAMS starting 20 Sept. The expectation is each student will do 4-6 hours preparation. We will be reading Aquinas, De Veritate aiming to gain fluency in reading without translating. Still, we will stop to translate and discuss when clarity requires it. Interested students should email Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.
Fall 2021: Arabic: Beginning level Reading Arabic Philosophical Texts. Tuesdays 9 am US Central Time for 60-75 min. on Microsoft TEAMS, starting 7 Sept. The expectation is each student will do 4-6 hours preparation. All students should have completed study of Arabic grammar roughly equivalent to Thackston’s An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic. Interested students should email Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.
28 May – 23 August 2021. AAIWG Graduate Student Islamic Philosophy Reading Group. Students seeking to increase their knowledge of Islamic philosophy in its own context will be reading three chapters of The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy edited by Richard Taylor and Luis Xavier López-Farjeat a week. Students will meet on Wednesdays to briefly discuss the assigned readings (time TBD) and will meet with Dr. Richard Taylor on Friday mornings, from 10-11 am CT, for further discussion. Students are also asked to complete a one-page summary of a chapter and submit it to Dr. Taylor by 8 pm US Central Time on Thursday evening. For more information, please contact the group organizers, Seth Kreeger at seth.kreeger@marquette.edu or Nicoletta Nativo at nicoletta.nativo@hotmail.it