| Moderator/Chair: | Mark Kauntze, Department of Classics, Northwestern University |
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| Paper 1604-a | Albert the Great's Cosmic Theology and His Debt to Averroes
(Language: English)
Adam Takahashi, Center for the History of Philosophy & Science, Radboud University Nijmegen
Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Philosophy, Science, Theology |
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| Paper 1604-b | The Broken Circle: Islamic Divinatory Sciences in the Latin World, 12th-15th Centuries
(Language: English)
Valerio Cappozzo, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Italian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
In the De caelo et mundo, which is a paraphrase of Aristotle's On the Heavens, Albert the Great (ca. 1200-80) presented a new perspective on Aristotelian cosmology. Under the decisive influence of both Arabic Aristotelians and Hermetic literature, Albert transformed Aristotle's original ideas by attributing a special role to God as the prime cause of all sublunary forms. My paper not only aims to examine Albert's cosmological doctrines but also to present a case-study for understanding the transformation of Aristotelian philosophy in the Arabic-Latin commentary tradition.
Paper -b:
This paper analyzes the connections between the Islamic divinatory sciences and Italian Medieval dream-books. More specifically, it focuses on the
Latin translations of Islamic symbols related to dreams, their integration into Christian culture and the erasure of their origins due to Catholic
censorship. My aim is to track the Islamic roots of these buried symbols in several Italian miscellanies from the 12th to the 15th century.
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