معرفی
Asad Q. Ahmed is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Education:
- B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from Yale University (2000)
- Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (2007)
Research Interests:
Professor Ahmed specializes in early Islamic social history and pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, with a particular focus on rationalist disciplines such as philosophy, logic, legal theories and astronomy. His current research delves into the post-classical period of Islamic intellectual history (ca. 1200-1900 CE), emphasizing developments in the Indian subcontinent. He also has expertise in Graeco-Arabica, classical Arabic poetry and poetics, and hadith and Qur'anic Studies.
Publications:
- The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011)
- Avicenna's Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Muslim India (University of California Press, 2022)
- The Islamic Scholarly Tradition (Brill, 2010)
- Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts (Brill, 2015)
- The Hashiya and Islamic Intellectual History (Oriens, special issue, 2013)
- Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories (Oriens, special issue, 2018)
Editorial Roles:
- Co-editor of the Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship (University of California Press)
- Co-editor of The Cambridge Series in South Asian Intellectual History (Cambridge University Press)
- Co-editor of the journals Oriens (Brill) and The Journal of South Asian Intellectual History (Brill)
- Member of advisory boards for several international journals and book series
Scientific Awards and Visiting Appointments:
- Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Princeton
- Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- Term Chair at the EHESS, Paris
- Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge
