Discipline: Arabic World
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
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)
The Spirit(s) in Ḥunayn’s Medical Questions and its Commentaries
Elvira Wakelnig (Speaker)
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The Arabic Galen-Commentator Ibn al-Tayyib (d. 1043) on Elements and Mixtures
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Pythagoras in the Arabic Medical Tradition
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The Arabic Commentator Ibn al-Ṭayyib on Methodus medendi
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The Greek Translation of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq’s Questions on Medicine and Its Arabic Model
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Galen in the Arabic Tradition
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Galen and the Arabic versions of Hunayn's Medical Questions
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The Paratexts in al-Marāġī’s medical manuscript
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The Reception of Quod Optimus Medicus in the Arabic-Islamic World
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Experience and Reasoning in the Arabic Reception of Galen
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The polysemous term ‘nature’ in the Arabic Galen
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Proclus Arabus and Libri de causis
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Die verschwundene Natur (physis). Zur Übersetzungstechnik von Hunayn ibn Ishaq und seinem Kreis (9. Jh.)
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Was tun mit möglichen Fragmenten griechisch-arabischer Übersetzungen in arabischen Texten?
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Ḥīlat al-burʾ, the Ǧawāmiʿ and Averroes
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Ibn Bahrīz’s Definitions and Divisions of Logic and how they relate to the caliph al-Maʾmūn
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On the Prolegomena to Galen's De Sectis in Arabic
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Pluralismus in Philosophie und kalām
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The End of Late Antiquity, the Beginning of Arabic Philosophy
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Ibn Bahrīzs Definitionen der Logik. Ein Beispiel spätantiker Prolegomena-Literatur auf Arabisch
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Griechische Transliterationen und islamische Konzepte in der griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungsliteratur
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The Arabic Summary of Galen’s On the Therapeutic Method
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Creator versus Nature. The Arabic Reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts
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Philosophical Culture in the 10th and 11th Centuries: Miskawayh and his Sources in Context
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Philosophical Compilations in Unpublished Arabic Manuscripts: Doxography or Something Else?
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Muhammad ibn al-Layth's Letter to the Byzantine Emperor
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Benefits from Animal Parts. Arabic Texts on How to Use Different Parts of Animals
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Galen’s rational method of On the Therapeutic Method in the Arabic Alexandrian Summaries (Jawāmi')
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La problématique catégoriale dans le livre sur les définitions de la logique d’Ibn Bahrīz
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Rhetorics in Majālis held at Muslim Courts from the Ninth to the Eleventh Century
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Glückseligkeit und Einteilung der Wissenschaften in al-fawz al-asghar
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The Use of Late Antique Prolegomena by Christian Arabic Authors
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The Byzantine Influence on Arabic literary and Visual Depictions
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī – an 11th century Byzantine philosopher and theologian writing in Arabic
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Anonymous Philosophical Compendia: An Attempt at Vulgarization?
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Philosophie – Falsafa: Von Griechenland in die arabisch-islamische Welt
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Les Chapitres sur les thèmes métaphysiques d’al-‘Āmirī et l’anonyme Kitāb al- ḥaraka : deux interprétations du Liber de causis en arabe
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Department of Near Eastern Studies
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