Aaron Tugendhaft – Heavenly Reason in the Medieval Islamic World
Thursday, February 17, 2022 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm CET/GMT+1Online Lecture
In 1194, the Egyptian philosopher and rabbinical authority Musa ibn Maymun (aka Maimonides, Rambam) responded to a series of queries by the Jewish community of southern France concerning the efficacy of astrology. This lecture will explore the religious and political dimensions of ibn Maymun's response within the context of how the astral sciences---both astronomy and astrology---were conceptualized in the medieval Islamic world.
Aaron Tugendhaft teaches history and philosophy at the Ramaz School in New York City. From 2018-2021, he taught in the core at Bard College Berlin, where he also served as inaugural director of the Science and Religion Project. He is the author of The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet (Chicago, 2020) among other books.
This event is cohosted by the Science and Religion Project and the Early Modern Science core, and supported by the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS).
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