Présentation

Asad Q. Ahmed, invited by Naveen Kanalu (CRH, LaDéHis, GEHM) and Fabrizio Speziale (CESAH / CeRCLEs), is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.  He specializes in early Islamic social history and pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, with a special focus on the rationalist disciplines, such as philosophy, logic, legal theories, and astronomy. Although he has worked extensively on Islamic intellectual history of the so-called classical period (ca. 800-1200 CE), his current focus is the period ca. 1200-1900 CE, especially with reference to the Indian subcontinent. His books include The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011), Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Islamic Scholarly Tradition (co-ed., Brill, 2010), The Hashiya and Islamic Intellectual History (co-ed., Oriens, special issue, 2013), Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts (co-ed., Brill, 2015), Rationalist Disciplines in Postclassical Islam (co-ed., Oriens, special issue, 2014), Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories (co-ed., Oriens, special issue, 2018) and Palimpsests of Themselves:  Logic and Commentary in Muslim India (University of California Press, 2022).  Professor Ahmed is the co-editor of the Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship (UC Press), The Cambridge Series in South Asian Intellectual History (Cambridge University Press), and of the journals Oriens (Brill) and The Journal of South Asian Intellectual History (Brill).  He also serves on the advisory board of several international journals and book series. His awards include fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  He has also held visiting appointments as a Term Chair at the EHESS, Paris, and a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge.

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Conférences

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Fabrizio Speziale, Asie du Sud et culture persane (XVIe-XXe siècle). Productions savantes, traductions, interactions

Persianate and Arabic Worlds:  Reflections on Disparate Scientific Systems

• Mercredi 15 mai 2024 de 14h à 17h
  
• EHESS - Centre de la Vieille Charité
  (Salle C) 2, rue de la Vieille Charité 13000 Marseille

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Fabrizio Speziale, Interactions between islamicate and indic societies in South and South-East Asia : comparative perspectives

Canon and Poetic Fluidity in Pre-Modern South Asia

• Jeudi 16 mai 2024 de 11h à 14h
  
• EHESS - Centre de la Vieille Charité
  (Salle B) 2, rue de la Vieille Charité 13000 Marseille

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy, La valeur en Islam : monnaie, dette et crédit (l’empire moghol et l’Inde)

The Ḥanafī Legal Object and Property Rights

• Mercredi 22 mai 2024 de 14h30 à 16h30
• Campus Condorcet - Centre de colloques
  (Salle 3.02) Place du Front populaire 93330 Aubervilliers

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy, La valeur en Islam : monnaie, dette et crédit (l’empire moghol et l’Inde)

The Continuity of Legal Status in Islamic Law

• Mercredi 29 mai de 14h30 à 16h30
  
• Campus Condorcet - Centre de colloques
  (Salle 3.07) Place du Front populaire 93330 Aubervilliers

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Accueil et durée du séjour

• Invité à l'EHESS par Naveen Kanalu (CRH, LaDéHis, GEHM) and Fabrizio Speziale (CESAH / CeRCLEs) (Chaire sécable de l'IISMM)

• 1 mois (Mai 2024)