Emma Gannagé

Emma Gannagé (* 1967 ) is a French Arabist , Graeco Arabist and historian of philosophy .

Gannagé in 1998 with a with Rémi Brague -made thesis on the Arab tradition of Alexander of Aphrodisias at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne doctorate . She was Professor of Philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and Director of the Center Louis Pouzet sj d'étude des civilizations anciennes et médiévales and from 2006 to 2007 Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . She is also editor of the journal Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph and a member of the Society for the history of alchemy and chemistry . Since 2009 she has been Associate Professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC ; she is now an Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut .

Research focuses on the reception of Greek philosophy and natural science in Arabic thought . It is thanks to her that four chapters (2.2-5) of the lost commentary by Alexander von Aphrodisias on Aristotle 's work On Becoming and Passing are identified in an Arabic translation by the alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan from the 8th century and for the first time in one Having submitted a translation. Gannagé was able to show that Alexander tried in this commentary to combine Aristotle's theory of changes in substance and its physics into a unified theory.

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed., Transl.): Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Aristotle's "On coming-to-be and perishing 2.2-5". Cornell University Press, 2005 (Ancient commentators on Aristotle). - Revision of the dissertation: Le commentaire d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise In de generatione et corruptione perdu en grec, retrouvé en arabe dans Gabir Ibn Hayyan, Kitab al-Tasrif. Edition, traduction annotée et commentaire par Emma Gannagé, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1998.
• (Ed.): The Greek strand in Islamic political thought: proceedings of the conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 16-27 June 2003. Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut 2004 (Mélanges de L'Université Saint-Joseph, 57), table of contents online
• (Ed., With Anne-Marie Eddé): Regards croisés sur le Moyen Age arabe. Mélanges à la mémoire de Louis Pouzet SJ (1928–2002). Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Emma Gannagé in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Personal page at the American University of Beirut (with photograph and list of publications)
• Page at Georgetown University (with photograph)
• Society for the history of alchemy and chemistry
• Emma Gannagé: Rethinking the Rise of Philosophy in Islam: al-Kindī and his Greek Sources . Presentation at the University of California, Berkeley , December 8, 2014, video on vimeo.com