Anna Ayșe Akasoy is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam, especially of al-Andalus, on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine, falconry and hunting.
Career Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, where she received her doctorate in oriental studies in 2005. Until 2008 she worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries. This was followed by positions as a lecturer and research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as associate professor at Hunter College in New York City. , Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Books Akasoy's books include: The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics (edited with Alexander Fidora, Brill, 2005)Review of The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics: José Meirinhos, Filosofia, Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9 Jahrhundert (edited and translated with Stefan Georges, Akademie, 2005)Review of Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Emilie Savage-Smith, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit, die sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'īn (Brill, 2006)Reviews of Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit: Jules Janssens, "A Remarkable Thirteenth-Century Compendium of “Aristotelian” Philosophy: Ibn Sab’Ðn’s Sicilian Questions (Re: A Text and Study by Anna Akasoy)", Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, ; Patrizia Spallino, Oriente Moderno, ; F. Woerther, Bulletin d'études orientales, Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (edited with James E. Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann, The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007)Reviews of Islamic Crosspollinations: Francis Robinson, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ; Kevin van Bladel, Journal of Islamic Studies, Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Sismel–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008)Reviews of Astro-Medicine: Andrew Gregory, Medical History, ; Iolanda Ventura, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ashgate, 2010)Reviews of Islam and Tibet: Jacqueline Fewkes, Himalaya, ; Bianca Horlemann, Études Mongoles et Sibériennes Centrasiatiques et Tibétaines, ; A.C. McKay, The Tibet Journal, ; Sam van Schaik, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Rashīd al-Dīn: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, The Warburg Institute, 2013)Review of Rashīd al-Dīn: Frantz Chaigne, Abstracta Iranica, Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (edited with Guido Giglioni, Springer, 2013)Reviews of Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Steven Harvey, Journal of the History of Philosophy, ; Lucian Petrescu, Journal of Early and Modern Studies,
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