Anna Ayşe Akasoy

Anna Ayşe Akasoy (* 1977 ) is a German orientalist .

Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in oriental studies in 2005. She then worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute , London, where she worked on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries . This was followed by positions as a research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as a research assistant at the Center for Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum . Akasoy is now an Associate Professor of the Intellectual History of Islam at Hunter College, City University of New York .

Research focus

Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam , in particular of al-Andalus , on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine , falconry and hunting.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Philosophy and Mysticism in the Late Almohad Period. The Sicilian Questions of Ibn Sab'in. Brill, Leiden 2006

Translations

• with Stefan Georges (ed., transl. and introduction): Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Bazyar's, The Book of Falcons and Dogs of the Caliph al Mutawakkil. A ninth century Arabic treatise. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005.
• (Transl., Int.): Al-Kindī , The First Philosophy. Arabic - German. Freiburg: Herder, 2011.
• (Transl., Int.): Ibn Sab'in , The Sicilian Questions. Arabic - German. (= Herder's library of the philosophy of the Middle Ages, 1st series, volume 2). Herder, Freiburg 2005.

Web links

• Academia.edu: Hunter College personal page
• Personal page at the Ruhr University Bochum
• List of publications at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Presentation on the website of Trivium magazine