Ayman Shihadeh is an intellectual historian of the Islamic world and Professor in Arabic intellectual history at the

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(SOAS),

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Biography

Shihadeh finished his postgraduate studies at the

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in 2002 after earning a first-class BA with honours from SOAS, and went on to teach at the Universities of Edinburgh,

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, and

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before joining the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 2008. He was given a two-year senior humanities research fellowship at

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, from 2019 to 2021. Between 2012 and 2019, he co-chaired and later chaired the British Association for Islamic Studies, as well as establishing and chairing the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

Works

* ''The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī'' * ''Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf Al-Dīn Al-Masʿūdī’s Commentary on the Ishārāt''Reviews of ''Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf Al-Dīn Al-Masʿūdī’s Commentary on the Ishārāt'': * * * * Philosophy East and West, Vol. 67, No. 2 (APRIL 2017), pp. 599-601 * Studia Islamica 113 (2), 292-296, 2018 * Journal of Qur'anic Studies 20 (1), 125-136, 2018 * Nazariyat, Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences 3 (1), 2016

References

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