Update 11 May 2026: Tentative Schedule (Site under revision)
Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism
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Cordoba 18 presentations 19-21* May 2026;
Paris 21 presentations 26-29 May 2026
*Due to several late withdrawals, the Cordoba meeting is reduced from 4 to 3 days.
(Interested in joining the AAIWG? See the Membership Application Page.)
These conference meetings are dedicated to the memory Prof. Alfred L. Ivry (1935-2026), specialist in the thought of Ibn Rushd and Medieval Arabic and Jewish Philosophy
Note new format: Since we received very few papers or drafts in advance of the meetings, we have decided that presenters will be given a total of just 50 minutes each. We encourage presenters to make time for questions or discussion but that is for each presenter to decide.
Cordoba, May 19-21, 2026 (session chairs TBD)
Travel notes: Those arriving at the Madrid airport will need to transfer to the Atocha train station. Standard taxi fare 33€. The fast train to Cordova takes ca. 1hr45min.
A Spanish colleague also advised: “The best way to travel from the airport to Atocha railway station is by train. It is safe and cheap.” See Link.
Experience shows that maps on portable phones are very reliable for walking directions to the Casa Árabe in the tourist area not far from the Mosque of Cordoba.
Location: Casa Árabe, C. Samuel de los Santos y Gener, 9, Centro, 14003 Córdoba, Spain
Note: Attendees will need to register at the entrance of Casa Árabe.
Additional Reminder for presenters:
Note new format: Since we received very few papers or drafts in advance of the meetings, we have decided that presenters will be given a total of just 50 minutes each. We encourage presenters to make time for questions or discussion but that is for each presenter to decide.
Link To Conferences’ Titles, Abstracts, Outlines
May 19
Arrival 9:00-9:30
9:45 Welcome by Dr. Javier Rosón, Director of Casa Árabe, Prof. Dr. Israel Muñoz, Universidad de Córdoba, Prof. Dr. Pedro Mantas, Universidad de Córdoba, Universidad de Córdoba & Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven
Session Chair: Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
10:00-10:50 (1) Ivonne María Acuña Macouzet, Universidad Panamericana, “The Uses and Limits of Metaphor in Ibn Rushd’s Logic”
11:00: 11:50 (2) Salima Zouaghi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ecology and Civilization: Ibn Rushd and the Theory of Climates”
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-13:20 (3) Abigail Whalen, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, “Ibn Rushd on Individuation: From Indeterminate Dimensions to Individuals,”
13:30-14:20 (4) Worod Al-Musawi, independent researcher, “Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Quran: His Quotations and Philosophical Exegesis”
14:20-16:30 Lunch Self-pay at stands or restaurants of your choice near the Mosque
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Pedro Mantas España, Universidad de Córdoba
16:30-17:20 (5) Prof. David Twetten, Marquette University, “The Cosmology of Early Ibn Rushd: A New Discovery”
17:30-18:20 (6) Prof. Mercedes Rubio, Universidad Villanueva, Madrid, “How Averroes Uses the Cosmological Analogy for His Epistemology”
20:00 Meet at Taberna Restaurante El Olivo in front of the Ibn Rushd / Averroes statue. Self-pay for beer and dinner.
May 20
8:30-9:30 Option: Mosque of Cordoba for free entry. NOTE: Arrive early at 8 am to be sure to get free entry.
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Universidad de Córdoba
10:00-10:50 (7) Prof. Mostafa Najafi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher for Philosophy and Theology in the Islamic World, Theology Faculty, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, “Arabic Errors in Ibn Rušd’s Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
11:00-11:50 (8) Terry Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa, “Ibn Rushd on Necessity and Possibility in his Middle Commentary on Peri Hermeneias, Chapter Two, Sections 28-37 (Aristotle, Chapter 9, 18a28- 19b4)”
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-13:20 (9) Prof. Josep Puig Montada, Universidad Complutenses, Madrid, “The import of the last four questions of Averroes’s The Incoherence of The Incoherence for the history of philosophy”.
13:30-15:30 Lunch Self-pay at stands or restaurants of your choice near the Mosque
Session Chair: Prof. Josep Puig Montada, Universidad Complutenses, Madrid
15:30-16:20 (10) Safia Zghal, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & The Free University of Brussels, “Renan’s Averroes and Anṭūn’s Ibn Rushd: On the Tensions Between Influence, Instrumentalization, and Emancipation from a Model”
16:30-17:20 (11) Prof. Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, “Ibn Rushd on Reproduction and the Atypical Case of ‘False Pregnancy'”
17:30 To be announced
18:30 Meet at the garden of the Mosque: Dinner together (place TBA)
May 21
Session Chair: Prof. Terry Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa
10:00-10:50 (12) Prof. Maryam Al-Sayyed, associate researcher, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Amman, & Prof. Zaid Edayat, University of Jordan, “Ibn Rushd on Ethics and Politics: Reassessing the Structure of Practical Philosophy”
11:00-11:50 (13) Prof. Dr. Feriel Bouhafa, Julius-Maximilian Universität Würzburg, “The Roots of Ibn Rushd’s Ontology of the Good: between his Compatibilist Theory of Action and Critique of Plato’s Theory of Forms”
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30: 13:20 (14) Prof. Brahim Bourchachene, Mohammed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi UAE, “The ethical Question in Averroes: On the Ghazalian Influence”
13:30-14:20 (15) Prof. Karen Taliaferro, University of Florida, “Ibn Rushd on Human and Divine Knowledge: The Limits of Philosophy”
14:20-16:30 Lunch Self-pay at stands or restaurants of your choice near the Mosque
Session Chair: Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven
16:30-17:20 (16) Prof. Mehmet Ata Az, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Divinity, Ankara, “Aquinas’s Critique of Averroes on the Material Intellect: A Faculty of the Soul or a Separate Substance?”
17:30-18:20 (17) Prof. Alessandro Mulieri, CNRS – Triangle Laboratory (Lyon) & CVIPOF – Sciences Po (Paris), “Marsilius of Padua and the Question of Political Aristotelian Averroism”
18:20: Closing discussion and conclusion.
19:00 Drinks
21:00 Possible group dinner
For those attendees who planned for 4 days, for the fourth day we suggest a day trip to beautiful Grenada or Seville.
Cordoba Housing Options
(1) Prof. Pedro Mantas of the University of Cordoba shared that there are some rooms available among university residences (ca. 40€ per night including a light breakfast). Bus transportation to the Casa Árabe area will take ca. 30 min.: 10 waiting for the bus, 10 minutes by bus, and then 10 walking.
If you are interested in this option, please write directly to Prof. Mantas (fs1maesp@uco.es) for reservation options or for answers to questions.
(2) Hotels, ranked by proximity to Casa Árabe:
VITIUM URBAN SUITES
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Paris, May 26-29, 2026 (session chairs TBD)
Location: Sorbonne Université, Michelet Auditorium, 46 Rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris
NOTE: The entrance to our auditorium is at 46 Rue Saint-Jacques (not the main entrance to the Sorbonne); see this map. Our entrance and auditorium at the red marker on the top left.
Cosponsored by / coparrainé par
Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG)
Centre Pierre Abélard (UR 3552 MHTA)
Initiative “Circulations Médiévales“
Special Note:
Inscription obligatoire pour toute personne n’ayant pas de carte d’accès à la Sorbonne jusqu’au 21 mai 2026.
Sign-up is compulsory for those who do not have a Sorbonne Université ID card, by May 21.
For the Parisians: La carte de la BIS ne donne pas accès à l’amphi Michelet.
Additional Notes for presenters:
1) Note new format: Since we received very few papers or drafts in advance of the meetings, we have decided that presenters will be given a total of just 50 minutes each. We encourage presenters to make time for questions or discussion but that is for each presenter to decide.
2) The auditorium has a projector with HDMI connectivity. Bring your laptop.
Link To Conferences’ Titles, Abstracts, Outlines
May 26
Arrival 9:30
9:40 Welcome: Prof. Dr. Tobias Hoffmann, Sorbonne Université; Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Prof. Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven
Session Chair: Dr. Alexander Schmid, Louisiana State University
10:00-10:50 (1) Filippo Contin, University of Salerno, PhD candidate in Medieval Philosophy, “From Themistius to the Latin Masters: The Transformation of an Averroistic Sentence in the Scholastic Tradition”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (2) Simone Antonilli, Università degli Studi di Trieste & Università degli Studi di Udine, “Autour du commentaire (šarḥ) d’Ibn Rušd à al-‘Aqīda du Mahdī Ibn Tūmart”
12:30-13:20 (3) Nicoletta Nativo, Charles University, Prague, “Averroes, Albert, and the Moderni: Paduan Debates on Psychology”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
Session Chair: TBA
15:30-16:20 (4) Prof. Traci Phillipson, Loras College, Dubuque, IA, “The Relation of Intellect, Will, and Intelligibles in Act: Exploring the Possibility for Individual Moral Responsibility in the Work of Ibn Rushd”
16:20-16:50 Break
16:50-17:40 (5) Anakhanim Ahadova, University of Wrocław, “’Yes and No’: Ibn Arabi’s Epistemological and Hermeneutical Response to Averroes”
17:50-18:40 (6) Prof. Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, St. Gregory the Great Seminary, Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, “Many Discourses, One Science: Averroes and Aquinas on the Unity of Religious Science”
May 27
Session Chair: TBA
9:00-9:50 (7) Prof. Emerita Therese-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America, “Ibn Rushd on Images and What Distinguishes a Good Image from a Bad One”
10:00-10:50 (8) Prof. Richard Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven, “Philosophy in Dialectical Context: Ibn Rushd’s Tahāfut at-tahāfut (Incoherence of the Incoherence)”
Afternoon free for visiting Paris
May 28
Session Chair: Prof. Cristina Cerami, Directrice de Recherche, CNRS, & Directrice du centre CHSPAM (Centre d’Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales)
10:00-10:50 (9) Prof. David B. Twetten, Marquette University, “The Meaning of the Bath Analogy Across Averroes’ Works”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:20 (10) Prof. Terry Kleven, Central College, Pella, Iowa, “Ibn Rushd’s Religious Arguments for the Unity of God: Study IV of Kitāb al-Kašf ‘an Manāhij al-Adilla ‘Aqā’id al-Milla (Müller, pp. 47, 1.3-51, 1.7)”
12:30-13:20 (13) Dr Alexander Schmid, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, “Dante’s Averroist Psychology: Jewish and Islamic Metaphysics and Dante’s Conception of Revelation”
13:30-15:00 Lunch
Session Chair: Prof. David B. Twetten, Marquette University
15:00-15:50 (13) Prof. Yehuda Halper, Bar-Ilan University, “Averroes and Ibn Tufayl on Experience as a Principle of Science”
16:00-16:50 (14) Prof. Steven Harvey, Bar-Ilan University, “The Commentator in Hebrew: Ibn Rushd or Averroes?”
17:00-19:30 Meeting Reception at Le Club of Sorbonne Université
May 29
Session Chair: Prof. Luis X. López-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
9:00-9:50 (15) Dr Andre Martin, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin , “Averroes Among the ‘Augustinians’: The Curious Case of Peter Auriol’s Cognitive Psychology”
10:00-10:50 (16) Dr Jordan Lavender, Texas A&M University, “Life and Mind in Averroes and Peter Auriol”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30: 12:20 (17) Dr Tracy Wietecha, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Reassessing Averroes’s Middle Commentary on the Ethics: Averroes’s Commentary in Albert the Great’s Super Ethica”
12:30-13:20 (18) Prof. Adam Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, “Albertus’ Critique of Averroes’ Naturalism in his Commentary on the Sentences”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
Session Chair: Prof. Richard Taylor, Marquette University & KU Leuven
15:30-16:20 (19) Dr Ayşenur Ünügür Tabur, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, “Multiplicity without Matter: Averroes’s Unity of Mind and Avicenna’s Dilemma”
16:20-17:00 Break
17:00-17:50 (20) Dr Paula Oliveira e Silva, University of Porto / Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, “The Active Intellect as the Efficient Cause in the Production of the Intelligible. A Jesuit Antidote Against Remaining Averroism”
18:00-18:50 (21) Dr Michele Meroni, Università degli Studi di Pavia, “Averroes’ Influence in Debates on Animal Behavior at Paris (1270-1300)”
19:00-19:30 Closing discussion
Paris Housing Options
One Paris housing option:
Prof. Th.-A. Druart was kind enough to share the following information:
“While in Paris I spent a night at Centre Vincentien F, Portal, 95 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75006, Internet site: cmission.fr, email: acceuil@cmparis.com. For the night plus breakfast I paid 50 euros. The rooms have a sink plus a small desk, internet. Restrooms and showers are at the end of the corridor. It’s very clean. The property has a big garden. The metro station Vanneau is just in front of it and in 5 stops one arrives at Cluny-La Sorbonne near Vrin, etc.” Thanks, Therese!
Prof. Tobias Hoffmann, our Paris meeting host, offers this suggestion:
Le foyer Saint-Jean-Eudes https://fsje.fr
This is a relatively inexpensive housing option. It’s a 20 minutes walk from the main site of the Sorbonne, where the conference will take place. Notice: this is not a hotel. If you plan to arrive late in the evening, you will have make arrangements beforehand. Once you are checked in, you get the keys and you can enter any time you want. Another difficulty might be that in order to make a booking, you have to pay half the amount of the stay as a down payment. We don’t know if they accept credit cards for that. All participants should book As Soon As Possible as May is already in the midst of the touristic season and prices might be quite high.
Conferences Information
NOTE: Projectors for Powerpoint or PDF will be available at both locations.
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Original CFP is here below.
Call for Papers: Conferences on “Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism” May 2026
The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) will celebrate the 900th anniversary of the birth of Ibn Rushd / Averrroes with two summer conferences, one in Cordoba at the Casa Árabe 19-22 May 2026 and one in Paris at Sorbonne Université 26-29 May 2026.
The language of the conferences will be English, but proposals and presentations in other languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian) are permitted if accompanied by English translation (or acceptable machine translation).
Proposals are invited for presentations on Ibn Rushd’s / Averroes’s oeuvre and its context, including but not limited to his philosophical thought, medical works, writings on religion and jurisprudence, historical contexts, sources, influences, et al.
These conferences are open to members and non-members of the AAIWG.
Dates, deadlines and submission parameters:
(i) Proposals by established scholars, post doctoral researchers and graduate student researchers are welcome. Note that all proposals must be accompanied by a current CV or a link to a current CV. Submit to: aaiwgscholarssubmissions@gmail.com
(ii) Deadline: 15 October 2025. Proposals or abstracts of no more than 250 words must contain 1) a clear statement of the issue and/or problem that they intend to address and 2) a tentative hypothesis about conclusion(s), with the understanding that findings can change once one is actually in the research and writing process. NOTE: Proposals must indicate clearly whether they are for Cordoba, Paris or either.
(iii) Notification of acceptance by the Scientific Committee will be made on 15 November*. Those whose proposals are accepted must confirm their participation by 1 December*. Otherwise ranked alternates will be offered the place on the program. NOTE: Due to the very large number of submissions, we intend to announce the program 1 December and to request confirmation of participation by 15 December.
(iv) 1 April 2026. Deadline for submission of drafted papers (with or without footnotes) for advance distribution to registered attendees.
(v) Oral presentations will be ca. 20 min. and should summarize the draft papers. Any handouts must be provided by the presenter. We anticipate question and discussion periods for each paper will be substantial.
(vi) The precise format and number of conference days (3-4) will be determined and shared by mid-December. Sessions may be organized topically and may have commentators (depending on the number of applicants and registered participants).
(vii) In accord with the regular procedures for AAIWG conferences, there are no fees charged to presenters or participants. Note, however, participants are responsible for all their own costs of travel, housing and meals. (Organized occasions for meals may be arranged.)
Note on publication: Details regarding the submission of papers for a volume, “Ibn Rushd, Averroes and Latin Averroism,” proposed for publication in the Brepols PATMA series will be shared in the last session of each of the conferences.
Questions? Email Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu and Luis X. López-Farjeat llopez@up.edu.mx