Oral presentations

  • Bellver (J.), ‘The Place of the Pseudo-Ibn Masarra in the Intellectual History of al-Andalus’, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 31 March 2022, at the ERC-PhilAnd Conference ‘Power, Religion and Wisdom: Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus and Beyond’ organised by Godefroid de Callataÿ.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘Abū Bakr b. al-ʿArabī and the Reaction against Hyperliteralism and tashbīhī Trends in Andalusī Sufism’, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, 28-29 January, 2022, at the conference ‘Le Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī: parcours, heritage et transmission. Colloque international à l’occasion du 900ème anniversaire de son décès’.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘The Dating of Rutbat al-ḥakīm and Ghāyat al-ḥakīm’, online workshop, 12 November, 2021, at the November panel of the Islamic Occult Studies on the Rise (IOSOTR) Working Group organised by M. Melvin-Koushki and N. Gardiner.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘Maslama b. al-Qāsim and the Dating of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’, Leiden University Shīʿī Studies Initiative, 6-9 August, 2021, at the ‘Third International Ismaili Studies Conference: Histories, Philosophies, and Communities’.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘Ibn Barrajān and the Science of Letters’, UCLouvain, 3-5 December 2020, at the Conference ‘Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts: 2020 Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE)’.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘Corrents sufís a al-Andalus i el Màgrib a l’albada de Ramon’, Barcelona, University of Barcelona, 26-27 September 2019, at the Conference ‘One God, Many Names. The Cent noms de Déu by Ramon Llull’.
  • Bellver (J.), ‘The Circulation of the Arabic Manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Almagest’, Istanbul, 13-15 June 2019, at the ‘First International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium for the History of Science in Islam’.
  • Dapsens (M.) – Moureau (S.), ‘A Khālid b. Yazīd’s risāla and its Latin translation’, UCLouvain, 5-7 August 2019, at the sixth workshop ‘Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry’ organised by Sébastien Moureau.
  • Dapsens (M.) – Moureau (S.), ‘Le Primo necesse est in hac arte, un traité d’alchimie attribué à Khālid b. Yazīd: identification d’une traduction arabo-latine jusqu’alors inconnue’, Orléans, 15 February 2019, at the seminar ‘Recherches en histoire des textes scientifiques et magiques au Moyen Âge’ organised by J.-P. Boudet and J.-Ch. Coulon.
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘Theory to Practice: The Alchemical Curriculum of the Rutbat al-ḥakīm’ (with Sébastien Moureau), London, 11 January 2023, at the Conference ‘Science and Craft: the relations between the theoretical and practical sciences of the occult and esoteric sciences in the Islamic world’ organized by G. de Callataÿ and Liana Saif as part of the ERC PhilAnd project 
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘On the Composition and Early Circulation of the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’: New Insights from the OUP-IIS Epistles of the Brethren of Purity Series’, Aga Khan Centre London, 22 November 2022, at the Ismaili Studies Conference: The State of the Field’ convened by Daryoush Mohammad Poor.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) ‘Writing articles for scientific journals’, Guanajuato (Mexico), 4 November 2022’ as part of the Seminar ‘Applied methods of investigation in Arabic and Islamic studies: The encyclopedic corpus of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’), organized with the Departamento de Lenguas, de la División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the University of Guanajuato.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) ‘Escribir una monografía de divulgación científica’, Guanajuato (Mexico), 3 November 2022’ as part of the Seminar ‘Applied methods of investigation in Arabic and Islamic studies: The encyclopedic corpus of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’), organized with the Departamento de Lenguas, de la División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the University of Guanajuato..
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ on animals: a focus on the non-narrative part of Epistle 22’, Munich, 20 May 2022, at ‘On Animals in Islamic Theology and Literature’, a workshop organised by P. Adamson.
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘Astrology in the long version of the Epistle of Magic of the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’’, Istanbul, 14 June 2019, at the ‘First International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium for the History of Science in Islam’.
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (6-hour reading class), Jerusalem, Hebrew Universtity of Jerusalem, 4-5 June 2019, as part of an Erasmus teaching convention between UCLouvain and HUJI
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘Some Reflections on Adam, the Fourth Clime, and the Invention of Sciences in Islamic medieval literature’, University of Fribourg, 15 March 2019, in ‘Aux Sources de l’Image. La transmission des savoirs astrologiques, divinatoires et magiques’, a conference organised by F. Spadini.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) ‘The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ and Aristotle’s biology: borrowings and adaptation’, Leiden, 9 November 2018, in ‘Observing and interpreting Nature: Aristotle’s biology in the Arabic and Latin tradition’, a symposium organised by Remke Kruk and LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society).
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘The Impact of the encyclopaedic corpus known as Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), with Emphasis on al-Andalus, Prague, 20 October 2018, in ‘Books of Knowledge and Their Reception. Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe’, a conference organised by P. Cermanová – V. Bažant – J. Svátek –V. Žůrek.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) ‘On the Hidden Meaning of the Animal Fable in the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’, Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, 2 February 2018, in the seminar organised by Peter Adamson.
  • de Callataÿ (G.), ‘The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ on the Theory of Rays’, Paris, CNRS, 18 January 2018, at ‘Theories of rays and their impact on Aristotelian physics in medieval Arab-Muslim, Christian and Jewish thought’, a workshop organised by G. Freudenthal and R. Leicht.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) ‘The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ on the Ṣūrat al-Arḍ: a Geography in Motion’, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 15 January 2018, in the seminar of the Abteilung für Islamwissenschaft und Nahostsprachen organised by Eva Orthmann.
  • de Callataÿ, (G.), – Moureau (S.), An Arabic version of Qusṭā b. Lūqā’s De Physicis Ligaturis?, paper at the workshop « Occult Technologies in the Islamicate World », org. by Matteo Martelli (Università di Bologna), 3 May 2022, Bologna, Italy.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) – Moureau (S.), An Arabic version of Qusṭā b. Lūqā’s De Physicis Ligaturis?, communication au colloque « Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in al-Andalus and Beyond », org. by Godefroid de Callataÿ (UCLouvain), 29 March-1 April 2022, Princeton, USA.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) – Moureau (S.), ‘An Arabic Version of Qusṭā b. Lūqā’s De Physicis Ligaturis’, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 31 Mars 2022, at the ERC PhilAnd conference ‘Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus and Beyond’ organised by G. de Callataÿ.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) – Moureau (S.), ‘In Code We Trust. The concept of rumūz in Andalusī alchemical literature and related texts’, Gotha, 28 September 2018, at ‘Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate world’, a conference organised by R. Forster and M. Hasenmüller.
  • de Callataÿ (G.) – Eryılmaz (S.), ‘Following the steps of theIkhwān al-Ṣafā’ in the Ottoman world: the case of Lamii Çelebi’, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 31 Mars 2022, at Conference ‘Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus and Beyond’ organised by G. de Callataÿ
  • de Callataÿ (G.) – Eryılmaz (S.), Istanbul, 9 October 2021, ‘The Significance of the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity at the Ottoman Court’ at the ‘Second International Fuat Sezgin Symposium on the History of Science in Islam’.
  • Mattila (J.), “The Problem of Animal Suffering in the Brethren of Purity and the Muʻtazila”, June 16 2022, Animality: A Philosophical Workshop with Martha C. Nussbaum, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, June 16-17, 2022, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Mattila (J.), ‘The Redaction History of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 30 Mars 2022, at the ERC PhilAnd conference ‘Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus and Beyond’ organised by G. de Callataÿ
  • Mattila (J.), ‘The Inner Meaning of the Epistles: Al-Risāla al-Jāmi‘a and Risālat Jami‘at al-Jāmi’a’, UCLouvain, 1 March 2021, in the ‘Seminar of Arabic Literature’ organised by G. de Callataÿ.
  • Mattila (J.), ‘Al-Risāla al-Jāmi‘a’, UCLouvain, 16 November 2020, ERC PhilAnd lecture.
  • Mattila (J.), ‘The Redaction History of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’, UCLouvain, 9 June 2020, in the ‘Séminaire ARA’.
  • Mattila (J.) – Korhonen (T.) – Kaski (L.), ‘The Moral Relation between Human and Non-Human Animals from Antiquity to the Middle Ages’, Turku, Finland, 7-9 August 2018, at the Conference ‘(Un)Common Worlds: Human-Animal Studies’.
  • Mattila (J.), ‘Sabians, the School of al-Kindī, and the Brethren of Purity’, University of Helsinki, 12-13 March 2018, in the Conference ‘Ideas and Identities in Late Antiquity: Jews, Christians, and Muslim’ organised at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies.
  • Moureau, (S.), Rediscovering a Lost Alchemical Text: The Risālat Mītāwus al-‘uẓmā, paper at the 30th congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants entitled « Body, Identity and Society in Islam », 7-9 July, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Moureau, (S.), and Thomas (N.), “Do as I say, not always as I do.” Understanding medieval alchemical recipes with the help of philology, archaeology and experimental archaeology, paper at the seminar « What’s in a Recipe? Epistemology and practical understanding of recipe literature » of the ERC AlchemEast, org. by Matteo Martelli (Università di Bologna) and Gabriele Ferrario (Università di Bologna), 17 May 2022, Bologna, Italy.
  • Moureau, (S.), « Qui accipit quod debet et miscet sicut debet, procedit inde quod debet procedere. » Les recettes alchimiques arabes médiévales et leur transmission au monde latin (IXe-XIIIe siècles), paper at the Micrologus conference « Entre l’atelier et la cour. La recette du XIIe au XVIIe siècle (europe, islam, extrême-orient). La Recette 2: recettes scientifiques et techniques », org. by Bruno Laurioux (CESR, Université de Tours), Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (SISMEL), and Jean-Luc de Paepe (UAI), 26-28 April 2022, Tours, France.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘ChrysoCollate, un programme d’aide à la collation et l’édition critique’, Liège, 9 November 2021, at the seminar ‘Synoikismos, for the day « De la tablette à l’écran : avancées technologiques dans les Sciences de l’Antiquité »’, organised by A. Noweta.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘ChrysoCollate, un programme d’aide à la collation et l’édition critique, online, 24 June 2021, at the webinar ‘Prométhéd – Problèmes et méthodes de l’édition critique des textes médiévaux’, organised by G. Clesse and F. Ninitte.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘Qawl : une bibliothèque numérique de textes arabes et les outils pour l’interroger ; ChrysoCollate : un programme d’aide à l’édition critique de textes dans toutes les écritures, online, 7-9 December 2020, at the traning workshop in digital philology ‘Étudier et publier les textes arabes avec le numérique ‘ organised by Noémie Lucas.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘New tools for critical editions’, UCLouvain, 5-7 August 2019, at the sixth workshop ‘Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry’ organised by S. Moureau.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘L’alchimie dans l’Andalus, de Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī aux traductions arabo-latines (Xe-XIIIe siècles)’, Spoleto, 25 April – 1 May 2019, at the 2019 CISAM study week ‘La conoscenza scientifica nell’alto medioevo’.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘Arabic and Latin Alchemy: New Perspectives and Tools’, Bologna, 10-11 July 2018, at the workshop ‘Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry’ organised by M. Martelli.
  • Moureau (S.) ‘Outstanding Alchemists, Great Men and Legendary Characters in Arabic Medieval Alchemy’, Leeds, 2-5 July 2018, at the ‘International Medieval Congress’, session ‘Mythical Figures, Legendary Characters, and Great Men in the So-Called Occult Sciences in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Medieval Texts’.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘Min al-kīmiyā’ ad alchimiam. La transmission de l’alchimie arabe dans l’Europe latine au Moyen Âge’, Paris, 18 April 2018, at the seminar ‘La magie dans l’Orient juif, chrétien et musulman : recherches en cours et études de cas’, organised by J. -Ch. Coulon and A. Bouanga.
  • Moureau (S.), ‘Living Stone, I Presume? The Conception of Spirit and Soul of Metals and Minerals in Arabic and Early Latin Alchemy’, Berlin, 29 September 2017, at the workshop ‘Psychopharmaka in Ancient Greek Medicine and Thought’ organised by R. Wittwer and M. Martelli.
  • Moureau (S.) – Thomas (N.), ‘Laboratories and Technology’, UCLouvain, 29-31 January 2018, at the workshop ‘A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages’ organised by Ch. Burnett and S. Moureau.
  • Moureau (S.) – Thomas (N.) ‘Practice and Experiment’, UCLouvain, 29-31 January 2018, at the workshop ‘A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages’ organised by Ch. Burnett and S. Moureau.
  • Petrone (M.), ‘Al-Ša‘rānī as Transmitter of Ibn ‘Arabī and Andalusi Thought’, Hamburg, 29 September – 1 October 2019, at the DAVO Annual Meeting.
  • Petrone (M.), ‘Saturn in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Cosmological views. A Preliminary Inquiry’, UCLouvain, 24-25 June 2019, at the symposium ‘Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” Thought’ co-organised by M. Petrone.
  • Saif (L.), ‘Decolonising Bāṭiniyya: Islamic Esotericism Beyond Corbinophilia and Traditionalism’, Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities (University of Exeter, and Habib University-Karachi, 10 December, 2021).
  • Saif (L.), ‘A Reflection on the Diversity of Medieval Magical and Divinatory Practices of the Mediterranean’, London, The Warburg Institute, 30 November, 2021, at the conference ‘Talismans, Divination and the Occult in Jewish Traditions’.
  • Saif (L.), ‘The Jābirian Kitāb al-Nukhab and Teaching Talismanry in Medieval Islam’, University of Amsterdam, 18 October, 2021, as part of ‘Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism’.
  • Saif (L.), ‘The (Non)Esotericism of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān’, 2021 Meeting of ENSIE​
    “Islam and Esotericism: Societies, Politics, and Practices” (online, 29 September, 2021).
  • Saif (L.), ‘The pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica as a Corpus’, UCLouvain, 29 March, 2021, ERC PhilAnd lecture.
  • Saif (L.), ‘The Intersection of Islamic Esotericism and the Occult Sciences’, University of Leiden, 1 December 2020, in the LUSSI Lecture Series in Shi’i Studies.
  • Saif (L.), ‘Science and Religion in the Jabirian Text known as Kitāb al-Nukhab”, Bologna, 31 August 2020, at the 9th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science.
  • Saif (L.), ‘The Strange World of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica’, University of Sterling, 22 January, 2020, public lecture.
  • Saif (L.), ‘From Kitāb al-Nukhab to the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm: Medieval Magical Theory from ‘East’ to ‘West’’, Tokyo, Waseda University, 16-17 October 2019.
  • Saif (L.), ‘Craft in the Jabirian K. al-Nukhab and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm’, London, The Warburg Institute, 17 June 2019, at the ERC PhilAnd workshop ‘Science and Craft: the relations between the theoretical and practical sides of esoteric disciplines in al-Andalus and their link with craft’, organised by G. de Callataÿ – S. Moureau – L. Saif.
  • Thomas (N.) – Moureau (S.), ‘The Philosophers’ Fount, Textual, Archaeological, Iconographic and Experimental Sources for the Study of Alchemy’, London, The Warburg Institute, 17 June 2019, at the ERC PhilAnd workshop ‘Science and Craft: the relations between the theoretical and practical sides of esoteric disciplines in al-Andalus and their link with craft’, organised by G. de Callataÿ – S. Moureau – L. Saif.
  • Van Dalen (E.), ‘Sectarian Conflict and the Dating of the Nabatean Agriculture: Who were the Sethians?’, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 29 Mars 2022, at the ERC PhilAnd conference ‘Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus and Beyond’ organised by G. de Callataÿ.
  • Van Dalen (E.), ‘The materialism of Ibn Waḥshiyya’s Nabatean Agriculture’, Istanbul, 13-15 June 2019, at the ‘First International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium for the History of Science in Islam’.

(Update ERC Oral Presentations December 2022)