Assoz. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Elvira Wakelnig

$Elvira Wakelnig$

T: +43-1-4277-43426

elvira.wakelnig@univie.ac.at

https://arabische-galen-kommentare.univie.ac.at/

Section: Arabic World
Assoc.-Professor of Arabic Philosophy in the Context of Medieval Intellectual and Cultural History of the Islamic World

Winter term 2025

141001 VO OR-1 VO Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141004 VO Socio-economic and cultural longue-durée phenomena in the Middle East and North Africa

141005 SE Galen's art of medicine in the Arab tradition

141018 VO Philosophers and their time: - Intellectual History and History of Philosophy of the Arabic-Islamic World up to the 15th cen. CE

141024 VU Talismans and magic spells: - The so-called occult sciences in the Arab-Islamic world

141031 OV Orientation event for first-year students of the Bachelor's degree program in Oriental Studies

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

Summer term 2025

141001 VO STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141011 SE Texts in synchronous perspective: Christian authors in 10th-11th century Baghdad.

141023 UE Reading of Classic Texts - Of the soul and the spirit of life. Philosophical-medical literature from the early Abbasid period

141040 PS Proseminar I

Winter term 2024

141001 VO OR-1 VO Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141004 VO Socio-economic and cultural longue-durée phenomena in the Middle East and North Africa

141008 VO Political, Intellectual and Cultural History of the Arabic-Islamic Middle East and North Africa - from the Rise of Islam to the Ottoman Period

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

141388 SE Texts in diachronic perspective - philosophy and medicine

420006 SE New Perspectives on working with manuscript-transmitted texts - Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Wakelnig, E. (2025). Archelaos von Athen in der arabischen Tradition. In G. Wöhrle, & T. Tsiampokalos (Eds.), Archelaos von Athen (pp. 6-9, 160-3, 166-75, 182-99, 202-17, 224-9, 238-41, 252-5). De Gruyter.

Wakelnig, E. (2025). Ibn Rušd, his son and Galen’s 'Method of Healing' (Ḥīlat al-burʾ). Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften, 24-25, 287-306.

Wakelnig, E. (2024). Fragmente griechisch-arabischer Übersetzungen: Methodische Überlegungen am Beispiel von Philoponus’ Über die Ewigkeit der Welt . In F. Neuerburg, F. Tsiampokalos, & P. Wozniczka (Eds.), Fragmente einer fragmentierten Welt: Zur Problematik des Umgangs mit Fragmenten in der gegenwärtigen klassisch-philologischen Forschung (Vol. 11, pp. 123-147). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111508788-006

Wakelnig, E. (2024). Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to his Commentary on Galen’s On Sects. In S. Schmidtke, & O. Michaelis (Eds.), Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond. Volume II: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa (pp. 1083-1121). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004686946_048

Wakelnig, E. (2023). Galen’s Philosopher-Physician from Late Antiquity to the Arabic-Islamic World in ʿAbbāsid Times. In A. Das (Ed.), Galen's Humanistic Medicine. The Essay Quod Optimus Medicus (pp. 135-153). Mohr Siebeck.

Wakelnig, E., & Hammerschmied, R. (2023). New Arabic Evidence on the Division of Medicine: A Text in the Margin of BnF, Ms Arabe 2859, the Alexandrian Summaries of Galen, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Galenic Commentaries and Ḥunayn’s Medical Questions. Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph, 69, 183-215.

Wakelnig, E. (2022). Anonymous Philosophical Compendia: An Attempt at Vulgarization? In A. Marieke, S. Harvey, & L. Muehlethaler (Eds.), The Popularization of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (pp. 109-120). Brepols.

Wakelnig, E. (2022). Greek Texts in Arabic Translations: Quranic Language, Christian Translators, and Muslim Audiences. In H. Israel (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion (RHTR) (pp. 304-318). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315443485-22

Wakelnig, E. (2022). Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103. In A. Lammer, & M. Jas (Eds.), Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World (pp. 255-271). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004504455_012

Wakelnig, E. (2022). The Arabic Alexandrians' Summary of Galen’s On the Therapeutic Method. In M. Havrda, & R. J. Hankinson (Eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine (pp. 250-274). Cambridge University Press.

Wakelnig, E. (2021). Late Antique Philosophical Education, Miskawayh, and Paul the Persian: On the Division and the Ranks of Philosophy. In S. Günther, & Y. El Jamouhi (Eds.), Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse: Thought & Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030) (pp. 109-133). Mohr Siebeck.

Wakelnig, E. (2020). Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān über die Autorenschaft der Präambel zu Euklids Elementen: Zur Zweckursache im Kitāb al-Baḥṯ. Studia Graeco-Arabica, 10, 217-226. http://learningroads.cfs.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/10SGA10-Wakelnig_pp-217-226.pdf

Wakelnig, E. (2020). Les Chapitres sur les thèmes métaphysiques d’al-ʿĀmirī et l’anonyme Kitāb al-ḥaraka: deux interprétations du Liber de causis en arabe. In D. Calma (Ed.), Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes : Vol. 2. Translations and Acculturations (pp. 198-210). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440685_010

Wakelnig, E. (2020). Muḥammad ibn al-Layṯ’s Letter to the Byzantine Emperor and its Arguments from Correct Language. Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 72(3-4), 217-239. https://doi.org/10.2143/JECS.72.3.3288666

Wakelnig, E. (2020). Pyrrho and Sextus Refuting Philosophy and the Value of Definition: On the Arabic Reception of the Late Antique Prolegomena of Philosophy. In K. Parry, & E. Anagnostou-Laoutides (Eds.), Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy (pp. 311-333). Brill.

Wakelnig, E. (2020). Translation as Interpretation:Translating Galen’s Polysemous Term Physis into Arabic. Medieval Worlds, 11, 60-116. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no11_2020s60

Wakelnig, E. (2019). Abu l-Hasan al-'Amiri. In M. Sebti, & D. De Smet (Eds.), Noétique et théorie de la connaissance dans la philosophie arabe du IXe au XIIe siècle: Des traductions gréco-arabes aux disciples d'Avicenne (pp. 243-265). Vrin.

Wakelnig, E. (2019). Ibn al-Samḥ. In Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (pp. 64-66). Brill.

Wakelnig, E. (2019). Late Antique Philosophical Terminology in Early Kalām: The Polysemous Greek Term atomon and Its Arabic Equivalent juzʾ lā yatajazzaʾ. Journal of Abbasid Studies, 6(2), 150-184.

Wakelnig, E. (2019). Socrates in the Arabic Tradition: An Esteemed Monotheist with Moist Blue Eyes. In C. Moore (Ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates (pp. 545-570). Brill.

Elvira Wakelnig
Department of Near Eastern Studies

e-mail: elvira.wakelnig@univie.ac.at

Postal address:
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
A-1090 Vienna
Austria

Research interests

Arabic Book Culture, Manuscripts and History of Texts

Graeco-Arabic tradition

History of Philosophy, Kalām, Medicine and Science in the World of Islam

Academic Positions

since 2024 Associate Professor of Arabic Philosophy, University of Vienna

2018-2023 Assistant Professor of Arabic Philosophy (Tenure Track), University of Vienna

2015-2018 Senior Researcher, University of Vienna, FWF Elise-Richter Project: Gathering Knowledge. Towards a Typology of Arabic Compendia

2014-2016 Researcher, University of Lausanne, SNSF Project: Eléments philosophiques et théologiques dans les traditions médicales byzantine et arabe

2014 Researcher, University of Pisa, ERC Project: Greek into Arabic

2010-2013 Researcher, University of Vienna, HERA Project: SAWS – Sharing Ancient WisdomS

2007-2010 Researcher, University of Warwick, AHRC Project: The Oxford Anthology

2006-2007 Post-doc, University of Halle, Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems

2006 Short Term Frances A. Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute, London

2005 Research Associate, University of Bochum, DFG Project: Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum

2005 Ph.D. (Dr. phil.), Islamic Studies, University of Erlangen (summa cum laude)