“Imagination and Islamic Philosophy”

Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

Oliver Leaman
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Judaic Studies
University of Kentucky

Oliver Leaman is Professor of Philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Kentucky. He has written recently on Islamic and Jewish philosophy, including; Averroës and his Philosophy (1997), Moses Maimonides (1997), Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (1995), A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy (1999) and Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy (2001). He is the editor of Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives (1996), The Future of Philosophy (1998), and co-editor with Seyyed Hossein Nasr of the History of Islamic Philosophy (1996) and the History of Jewish Philosophy (1996). He edited the section on Islamic philosophy in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998) and has contributed on the topic in many other works of reference. His latest books include the editing of the Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (2001) and the Companion Encyclopedia of Film in the Middle East and North Africa (2001), and the co-editing of the Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (2001)