DAY 3: SYMPOSIUM: Philosophy between the Islamicate and Latin American traditions SYMPOSIO: Filosofía entre las tradiciones Islamicatos y Latinoamericanas

There are three videos of this symposium (22-24 June 2024). This video contains the recorded proceedings of Day 3.

CO-ORGANIZERS: Dr. Anthony F. Shaker, Dr. Amilcar Aldama Cruz.

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DAY 1:

• Welcome

• Opening statements by Prof. Amilcar Aldama Cruz and Dr. Anthony F. Shaker

• Dr. Luce López-Baralt

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

University of Puerto Rico

LECTURE: “The secret literature of the last Muslims of Spain”

• Prof. José Antonio Antón Pacheco

Honorary researcher

Universidad de Sevilla

LECTURE: “The spiritual transformation among some Argentine philosophers (Vicente Fatone, Armando Asti Vera, Ismael Quiles and Francisco García Bazán)—à propos the concept of ḥikma”

• Prof. Jim Maffie

Senior Lecturer

Department of History, Emeritus

University of Maryland

LECTURE: “Understanding Mexica (Aztec) Philosophy”

DAY 2:

• Prof. Amilcar Aldama Cruz

Al-Mustafa International University, Iran

Universidad de La Habana

LECTURE: “Feeling more powerful than the King of Persia, when attending a laughing dawn: The imprint on José Martí's thought of the mystical ʾišrāqī”

• Prof. Omneya Ayad

Assistant Professor of Sufi Studies

Uskudar University

LECTURE: “Aḥmad Ibn Muṣṭafa al-ʿAlawī (d. 1934) and his understanding of divine oneness”

• Dr. Anthony F. Shaker

Scholar of Islamicate Philosophy

LECTURE: “Insān (human being) and the function of ghayriyya (otherness) in philosophy”

• Prof. Ángel Horacio Molina

Professor of Arabic Language and Culture,

LECTURE: “Argentine Rodolfo Kusch: Towards a Latin American philosophy of liberation from alienated being and self”

• Prof. Mahdi Saatchi

Assistant Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Shahid Motahari University (Sepahsālār)

LECTURE: “The human being as an alien in the world: Suhrawardī and the story of Ghurbat al-gharbiyya”

DAY 3:

• Prof. Hilal Oytun Altun

Associate Professorship

Jagiellon University

LECTURE: “Language reforms in the early decades of the Republic of Türkiye”

• Prof. Hamedeh Rastaei

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Aletaha Institute of Higher Education

LECTURE: “From unity to plurality with ‘other’ in Ibn ʿArabī’s intellectual system”

• Prof. Houssem Eddin Chachia talks about his book: The Morisco Landscape: Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought (Al-Mashhad al-mūriskī: Sardiyyāt al-ṭarad fī’l-fikr al-isbānī al-ḥadīth), published by Tunisia, Centre for Research and Knowledge Intercommunication, 2023.