Islam and Philosophy

The Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf, who specializes in classical Arabic philosophy, works at Paris’s Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, Sciences Po and Université Livre de Bruxelles. He is the chairman of the Advisory Committee for Deontology and Ethics at the Institute for Development Research, is vice-president of the National Ethics Committee and is a member of international philosophical institutions, such as the Diderot Institute. He has many publications to his name and entered the consciousness of the Francophone public thanks in particular to his essay Pourquoi lire les philosophes arabes (Why Read Arab Philosophers), about Arab philosophers who influenced the intellectual development of European civilisation but have been forgotten.

Eric Linn Ormsby is an academic, translator, poet and writer. For many years he was library director and professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Montreal’s McGill University. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Among numerous other works focused on Islamic philosophy he has published Theodicy in Islamic Thought (Princeton University Press, 1984), Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (1987) and Moses Maimonides and His Time (Washington, D.C., 1987). He has written many articles on Islamic theology and mysticism, has published five collections of poetry and translates classical Islamic philosophers (Al-Ghazali, Nasir Khusraw) and the works of the contemporary Iranian-born thinker Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezz

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