Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy

Saloua Chatti was a Professor of philosophy and logic at the FSHST, University of Tunis, from which she is now retired. She holds a Masters (dissertation on Russell’s mathematical logic) and a Ph.D in Philosophy (dissertation on Quine’s philosophy of logic) from the University of Tunis. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar at the department of philosophy of Harvard University, and successively Assistant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the FSHST, University of Tunis. She has published on philosophy of logic, Arabic logic, history of logic, analytic philosophy and philosophy of science.

• 1. Introduction (Saloua Chatti).- Part 1. Logic and Mathematics.- 2. The Hypothetical Logic in the Arabic Tradition (Saloua Chatti).- 3. Mullā Sadrā Shīrāzī and the Meta-Theory of Logic (Sayeh Meisami).- 4. Algorithms in Takmilat al-‛Uyūn of al-Iṣfahāni: Sources and Validation (Nacéra Bensaou).- Part 2. Metaphysics, Ethics and Aesthetics.- 5. Some Observations on Prudence (gr. Φρόνησις, ar. ta‘aqqul) in Book VI of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics (Frédérique Woerther).- 6. Ethics and Aesthetics: Theorizing Simile in Ibn Sīnā’s Risālat al-ṭayr and Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed).- 7. Toward another Understanding of the Notion of fiṭra in the Avicennian Ontology of the Rational Soul (Meryem Sebti).- 8. Primacy of Existence vs Primacy of Quiddity : What is the Debate about? (Mansooreh Khalilizand).- 9. “Superstition” or “Crown of Science”? Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Yusuf Karam, and Yumna Tarief El-Kholy on metaphysics (Kata Moser).