Postclassical Islamic Theology and the Non-existent

Ahmed Abdel Meguid

Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department

AUC

Ahmed Abdel Meguid is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt. He earned his BA at AUC and his MA and PhD in philosophy at Emory University. He has lectured widely in key institutions in North American and Europe including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and was recently a fellow of the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto. His research draws on Islamic and German philosophy focusing on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind, and social and political philosophy. He has published and has forthcoming articles in the European Journal of Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, and the Review of Metaphysics. He is currently finalizing two monographs titled: Being and Representation: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Modal Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind and Rethinking Al-Kindī’s Philosophy: the Systematization of Early Islamic Modal Epistemology.

Asad Ahmed,

Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Philosophy, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Professor Ahmed’s outstanding research on classical and post-classical Islamic philosophy, logic, theology has had formative influence on scholarship in the field. His work is published in leading, world-renowned, peer-reviewed journals of Philosophy, History of Ideas, Intellectual History,

Middle Eastern studies and Islamic studies. Among Professor Asad’s most recent books are: Palimpsests of Themselves (2020), Rational Disciplines and Post-Classical Islamic Legal Theories (2018), Rationalist Disciplines in Postclassical Islam (2014), The Religion Elite of the Early Islamic Hijāz (2011), Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic (2011). In recognition of his outstanding research, Professor Asad received numerous rewards, honors, fellowships from and served as a visiting professor at leading institutions including: Princeton University, Cambridge University, Stanford University and Oxford University