Visiting Speaker Event with Professor Rosabel Ansari
Al-Fārābī and the study of Islamic philosophy
Professor Rosabel Ansari, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York - Stony Brook
| A Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences seminar | |
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| Date | 18 February 2026 |
| Time | 16:15 to 18:30 |
| Place | IAIS Building/LT2 |
| Organizer | IAIS |
Event details
Abstract
Rosabel Ansari is a specialist in the history of Islamic philosophy, from the Graeco-Arabic period to the post-classical tradition. Her first book is Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Tashkīk (Oxford University Press, 2025), while her other publications focus on Avicenna, the Avicennan legacy, and the Ottoman tradition. Rosabel completed her BA at Cambridge and her PhD at Georgetown and also studied Arabic and Islamic sciences in Syria and Turkey.
The field of Islamic philosophy is developing and advancing at great speed, yet so little of its beginnings in al-Fārābī has been thoroughly studied. In this talk, Rosabel Ansari will explore the key takeaways of her new book on al-Fārābī for the history of Islamic philosophy (including topics such as emanation, essentialism and monism), as well as explain the path that took her to al-Fārābī from Sufism and the Ottomans.
Professor Rosabel Ansari
Location:
IAIS Building/LT2
