Carmela Baffioni

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Carmela Baffioni (born December 29, 1951 ) is an Italian historian of philosophy , Arabist and Islamic scholar .

Life

Baffioni studied philosophy , Arabic studies , Persian language and literature as well as Islamic studies at the Università degli Studi di Roma and also earned diplomas in archivistics and Greek palaeography at the Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica . She is now professor for the history of Islamic philosophy in the Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi at the University of Naples L'Orientale .

Her main research interests are the reception of Greek philosophy ( atomism , cosmology , logic , Aristotle and its meteorology ) in the Islamic spiritual world (especially Averroes ) and the Iḫwān aṣ-ṣafāʾ (" brothers of purity "). She is currently working mainly on Ismaili authors such as as-Siǧistānī and al-Kirmānī in order to better determine the relationship between Iḫwān aṣ-ṣafāʾ and Ismaili philosophy.

Baffioni was honored in 2008 with the admission to the Academia Europaea . She is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

Fonts

  • Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Logic. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 10-14 . Edited and translated by Carmela Baffioni. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. Review by Peter Adamson in: Journal of Islamic Studies 2011, online .
  • (Ed.): Averroes and the Aristotelian heritage. Guida Editori, Naples 2004.
  • Filosofia e religione in Islam. Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1997.
  • I grandi pensatori dell'Islam. Edizioni Lavoro, Rome 1996.
  • Storia della filosofia islamica. Mondadori, Milan 1991.
  • Sulle tracce di Sofia. Tre "Divini" nella Grecia classica. Bibliopolis, Naples 1990.
  • Atomismo e antiatomismo nel pensiero islamico. Seminario di Studi Asiatici, Napoli, IUO 1982.
  • Il IV libro dei 'Meteorologica' di Aristotle. Bibliopolis, Naples 1981.
  • La tradizione araba del IV libro dei 'Meteorologica' di Aristotle. In: Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 40, 1980, suppl. n.23, pp.1-104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Carmela Baffioni. Academie Europaea, accessed October 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Baffioni, Carmela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian of philosophy and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1951