Tag: Department of Classics Philosophy and Religion

Classics major Ana Tkabladze ’14 witnessed a revolutionary archaeological dig.

Gain a more dynamic understanding of early Islamic society and the nature of religious interaction during a lecture entitled “Religious Identity and Conversion between Christianity and Early Islam (650-900 C.E.)” by Anna Chrysostomides on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. in Trinkle Hall, Room 204.Chrysostomides is a 2007 University of Mary Washington religion graduate and […]

Professor of Philosophy and Religion Mehdi  Aminrazavi’s  work has recently been published in The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubaiyat edited by A. A. Seyed-Gohrab.

The book includes Aminrazavi’s chapter, “ Reading the Rubaiyyat as Resistance Literature.”

James Goehring, professor of religion, presented an invited plenary address on “Recent Research in Egyptian Monasticism (2008-2012)” at the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome from Sept. 17 to 22.

Professor of Philosophy and Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi’s article chapter “He Who Knows Himself, Knows His Lord: Reflections on Avicenna’s Suspended Man Argument” appears in “The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives.” The book, published by Marquette University Press in June 2012, is edited by Richard C. Taylor and Irfan A. Omar.