Anna Akasoy
Anna Ayșe Akasoy is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam, especially of al-Andalus, on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine, falconry and hunting.
Career
Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, where she received her doctorate in oriental studies in 2005. Until 2008 she worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries. This was followed by positions as a lecturer and research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as associate professor at Hunter College in New York City., Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY.Books
Akasoy's books include:- The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics
- Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9 Jahrhundert
- Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit, die sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'īn
- Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
- Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West
- Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes
- Rashīd al-Dīn: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran
- ''Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe''