FIRST GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON IBN SINA.
Yale University, March 17-18, 2001
Muzaffar Iqbal

Proceedings will be conducted in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies; breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be served in Room 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies Saturday, March 17, 2000.

9:00-9:30         Breakfast Buffet.

9:30-10:00       Introduction and "State of the Art" Comments by Dimitri Gutas (Yale University), Jules Janssens (Independent Scholar), Yahya Michot (Oxford University), and Robert Wisnovsky (Harvard University).

First Panel: Logic and Language.

10:00-10:50     Asad Ahmed (Princeton University).

Avicenna's Treatment of Aristotelian Models.

10:50-11:40     Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari (Allameh Tabataba'i University).

The Linguistic Achievements of Ibn Sīna.

11:40-12:30     Special Presentation: Shuhrat Irgashev (Avicenna International Foundation).

Ibn Sīna Studies in Uzbekistan: An Overview.

12:30-2:00       Lunch Buffet.

Second Panel: Psychology.

2:00-2:50         Rahim Acar (Harvard University).

Intellect vs. Active Intellect: Plotinus and Avicenna.

2:50-3:40         Kiki Kennedy-Day (Fatih University).

Ibn Sīna on the Afterlife of the Soul.

3:40-4:10         Coffee Break.

4:10-5:00         Tariq Jaffer (Yale University).

Avicenna's Argument against Metempsychosis (tanāsukh) as found in Ar-Risālah al-Aḍḥawiya fi amr al-ma‘ād.

5:30-7:00         Reception at the Beinecke Library.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2000.

8:30-9:00         Breakfast Buffet.

Third Panel: Metaphysics.

9:00-9:50         Amos Bertolacci (Yale University).

Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Being in
Avicenna's Ilāhiyāt of the Shifā.

9:50-10:40       Sajjad Rizvi (Cambridge University).

Process Metaphysics in Islam? Avicenna and Mulla Ṣadra on Intensification in Being.

10:40-11:10     Coffee Break.

11:10-12:00     Toby Mayer (Oxford University).

Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī's Critique of Ibn Sīnā's Argument for the Unity of God in the Ishārāt, and Nasīr ad-Dīn al-ٌūsī's Defence.

12:00-1:30       Lunch.

Fourth Panel: Reaction and Reception

1:30-2:20         David C. Reisman (Yale University).

Ibn Sīna and His Students: Preliminary Remarks on The Discussions

2:20-3:10         Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University).

Rocks in the Heavens? The Encounter between 'Abd al-Jabbār and Ibn Sīna.

3:10-3:40         Coffee Break

3:40-4:30         Ahmed H. al-Rahim (Yale University)

The Reception of Ibn Sīna among Shī‘ī Scholars

4:30-5:20         Hidemi Takahashi (J. W. Goethe-Universitṇt)

The Reception of Ibn Sīna in Syriac: The Case of Gregory Barhebraeus