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• 24 jui 2019

  25 jui 2019

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - Asia

  Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” Thought

  The aim of this meeting is to bring together confirmed and emerging specialists in order to gain some perspective on the current academic research on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” thought and to discuss research directions for the future. It will also bring to light questions arising from the reading and use of Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas today, taking into account the new approaches and better access to the texts provided by recent tools for textual analysis, and evaluating how our present-day situation shapes our understanding of his works, and conversely, what an informed reading can bring to current re-appropriations and (mis)use.

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• 01 mar 2019

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought

  Temporary postdoctoral research grant for the "Commentaries on Ibn Sīnā’s Qaṣīdat al-nafs" project

  (FRS-FNRS ; UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

  Les objectifs généraux du projet sont de comprendre la réception de la pensée avicennienne dans l’Orient musulman à travers l’analyse des commentaires du Poème de l’âme et de déterminer sur quelles questions précises, en quels termes, en utilisant quels types d’arguments, quelles références, quel type de discours, les commentateurs s’affrontent au texte et entre eux.

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• 09 mai 2018

  10 mai 2018

  11 mai 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context

  This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the exegetical aspect, in order to see in what extend philosophical hermeneutics can contribute to rethink the understanding of the Koran in the contemporary context; the interpretative aspect, to address different contemporary attempts to reinterpret the classical – philosophical, spiritual or legal – heritage; the critical aspect, to present different political and critical issues raised by the question of the encounter between philosophical hermeneutics and Islamic thought.

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• 01 jan 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Thought

  Philosophical hermeneutics in the Islamicate context

  This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the interpretative dimension, to address contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged with philosophical hermeneutics; the comparative dimension, in order to deal with possible transactions on the basis of common traits and divergences; and the creative dimension, to present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts.

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