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

$Elvira Wakelnig$

T: +43-1-4277-43426

elvira.wakelnig@univie.ac.at

Discipline: Arabic World

Summer term 2024

090027 VO Commenting on Texts as a Philosophical Activity - From Alexandria to the Ottomans, via Constantinople and Baghdad

141001 VO STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141017 PS Proseminar II

141021 VU Texts and Objects (in particular manuscripts, inscriptions, documents, coins)

141040 PS Proseminar I

Winter term 2023

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

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

Wakelnig, E. (2018). Xenophanes von Kolophon. Die arabischen Testimonien. In B. Strobel, & G. Wöhrle (Eds.), Xenophanes von Kolophon (pp. 3-7, 270-93, 296-307, 310-19, 328-31, 368-71). De Gruyter. Traditio Praesocratica Vol. 3

Wakelnig, E. (2017). al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarī. Compendia between Medicine and Philosophy. In P. Adamson, & P. E. Pormann (Eds.), Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (pp. 218-254). Warburg Institute. Warburg Institute Colloquia Vol. 31

Wakelnig, E. (2017). Iamblichus. In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE (pp. 120-121). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30611

Wakelnig, E. (2017). What does Aristotle have to do with the Christian Arabic Trinity? The Triad ‘Generosity-Wisdom-Power’ in the Alexandrian Prolegomena and Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Le Muséon, 130(3-4), 445-477.

Wakelnig, E. (2016). Socrate – Tradition Arabe. In R. Goulet (Ed.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques (Vol. 6, pp. 438-446). CNRS.

Wakelnig, E. (2015). Greek Sages on the tawḥīd: Ancient Philosophy in Accord with the Islamic Doctrine of the Oneness of God. Studia Graeco-Arabica, 5, 205-245.

Wakelnig, E. (2014). A Philosophy Reader from the Circle of Miskawayh. Cambridge University Press.

Wakelnig, E. (2013). Al-Anṭākī’s use of the lost Arabic version of Philoponus’ Contra Proclum. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 23(2), 291-317. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0957423913000040

Wakelnig, E. (Editor), & Storz, C. (Editor) (Eds.). (2013). Arabic Philosophical Compendia and Excerpts of Arabic and Latin Philosophical Texts. Web publication http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/arabicphilos/

Wakelnig, E. (2013). Die Philosophen in der Tradition Kindīs. ʿĀmirī, Isfizārī, Miskawayh, Siǧistānī und Tawḥīdī. In E. Eichner, M. Perkams, & C. Schäfer (Eds.), Islamischen Philosophie im Mittelalter: ein Handbuch (pp. 233-252). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Wakelnig, E. (2012). Die Weiterführung der neuplatonischen Ansätze. In F. Überweg (Ed.), Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Philosophie in der islamischen Welt : 8. - 10. Jahrhundert (Völlig neu bearbeitete Ausgabe ed., Vol. 1, pp. 170-185). Schwabe Verlag Basel.

Wakelnig, E. (2012). Fragments of the Hitherto Lost Arabic Translation of Galen’s On My Own Opinions in the Philosophy Reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539. In R. Hansberger, M. A. al-Akiti, & C. Burnett (Eds.), Medieval Arabic Thought. Essays in Honour of Fritz Zimmermann (pp. 221-238). Warburg Institute.

Wakelnig, E. (2012). Proclus in Aristotelian disguise. Notes on the Arabic transmission of Proclus’ Elements of Theology. In A. Musco (Ed.), Universalità della ragione. XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia Medievale de la SIEPM Palermo 17-22 settembre 2007: Communicazioni Orientalia, Palermo, Officina di Studi Medievali (Vol. 3, pp. 165-176). Officina di Studi Medievali.

Wakelnig, E. (2012). The Other Arabic Version of Proclus’ De Aeternitate mundi. The Surviving First Eight Arguments. Oriens, 40(1), 51-95. https://doi.org/10.1163/187783712X634661

Wakelnig, E. (2011). al-ʽĀmirī; Miskawayh; The Arabic Proclus. In H. Lagerlund (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy Between 500 and 1500 (pp. 1078-1081). Springer.

Wakelnig, E. (2009). A New Version of Miskawayh’s Book of Triumph: An Alternative Recension of al-Fawz al-Aṣghar or the lost Fawz al-Akbar? Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 19(1), 83-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0957423909000599

Wakelnig, E. (2009). Die Rolle des Aktiven Intellektes in der Prophetie bei Farabi und Maimonides. In J. Thon (Ed.), The claim of truth in religious contexts: results of an interdisciplinary workshop of the Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion" (Halle/Saale) (pp. 51-60). Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg. Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte Vol. 27

Wakelnig, E. (2008). Al-ʿAmirī on Vision and the Visible. Variations on Traditional Visual Theories. In A. A. Akasoy, & W. Raven (Eds.), Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in Honour of Hans Daiber (pp. 413-430). Brill.

Wakelnig, E. (2008). Philosophical Fragments of al-ʿĀmirī Preserved Mainly in al-Tawḥīdī, Miskawayh and in the Texts of the Ṣiwān al-ḥikma Tradition. In P. Adamson (Ed.), In the Age of al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century (pp. 215-238). Warburg Institute. Warburg Institute Colloquia Vol. 12

Wakelnig, E. (2007). Al-ʿĀmirī’s Paraphrase of the Proclean Elements of Theology. A Search for Possible Sources and Parallel Texts. In C. D'Ancona (Ed.), The Libraries of the Neoplatonists (pp. 457-469). Brill. Philosophia Antiqua Vol. 107 https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156418.i-536.29

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)