CSI Monday Majlis: Abdel-Meguid

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Talk title; 

Ibn al-‘Arabī and the Epistemic Turn in Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy: Modality and Representation in Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Critique of the Metaphysical Essentialism

The talk sheds light on two key arguments of Abdel Meguid’s forthcoming book Being and Representation: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Modal Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind. The first argument concerns the roots, context and structure of Ibn al-‘Arabī’s thesis on the epistemic import of modal operators and de re and de dicto modal claims. The second argument concerns Ibn al-‘Arabī’s philosophy of mind focusing on his theory of representation (mithāl) and its role in his theory of knowledge. Based on these two arguments the talk demonstrates Ibn al-‘Arabī’s contribution to prior Classical and later Post-Classical Islamic criticisms of classical Greek essentialism and its roots in the Parmenidean identity of truth and being.

Ahmed Abdel Meguid is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. He earned his BA at the American University in Cairo and his MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Emory University. His research draws on Islamic and German Philosophy focusing on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and social and political philosophy. He has āpublished his research in many journals like the European Journal of Political Theory and the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies. Journal of Islamic Philosophy and the Northern European Journal of Philosophy.  He is currently publishing two book monographs titled: Being and Representation: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Modal Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind and Rethinking Al-Kindī’s Philosophy: the Systematization of Early Islamic Modal Epistemology