معرفی
Anna Ayse Akasoy is a Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), with affiliations in Comparative Literature, History, Liberal Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Global Early Modern Studies. Her research intertwines Islamic intellectual history, the history of philosophy and science, and unique cultural intersections such as falconry, veterinary medicine, and Muslim-Buddhist interactions. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
- Education: M.A. and Ph.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Akasoy is currently researching three primary areas: a cultural history of falconry in the Middle East until the Ottoman period, Muslim-Buddhist contacts (including a short book on Rashid al-Din), and theories of decision-making at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and narrative expression. Her publications span topics like medieval Islamicate moral philosophy, cross-cultural knowledge transmission, and the role of animals in Islamicate history.
Her edited volumes include Rashīd al-Dīn, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (2013) and Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath (2013), which analyze cultural dynamics and the legacy of Arabic philosophy in Europe. She has also translated and edited medieval Arabic texts on falconry and mysticism.
