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Nader El-Bizri | |
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| Occupation(s) | Professor of philosophy and civilization studies, American University of Beirut |
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Nader El-Bizri (Arabic:نادر البزري,nādir al-bizrĩ) served as the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at theUniversity of Sharjah.[1] He is currently a Senior Research Fellow atThe Warburg Institute at the School of Advanced Study,University of London,[2] and an Affiliated Scholar with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at theUniversity of Cambridge.[3] He was before that a tenured longstanding full professor of philosophy and civilization studies at theAmerican University of Beirut, where he also acted as an associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and as the director of the General Education program.[4]
El-Bizri specializes inphenomenology,Islamic science andphilosophy, andarchitectural theory. He is the author or editor of several books, includingThe Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger (2000).
El-Bizri received a degree in architecture from theHarvard Graduate School of Design and a PhD in philosophy from theNew School for Social Research.[5]
El-Bizri is a professor of philosophy and civilization studies at theAmerican University of Beirut, where he is also an associate dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and the director of the general education program. He was formerly a director of the civilization studies program at the AUB and the coordinator ofIslamic studies,[4] and also oversees the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.[6] He was previously a visiting professor of visual studies at theUniversity of Lincoln and a principal lecturer (reader) in architecture.[7] He was an affiliated senior research fellow in philosophy at theInstitute of Ismaili Studies, London, and is general editor (and managing editorex officio) of anOxford University Press book series published in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, entitled:Epistles of theBrethren of Purity Series رسائل إخوان الصفاء .[8] He was a co-manager of a joint project between the Institute of Ismaili Studies and theInstitut Français du Proche Orient, formerly based inDamascus and now inBeirut.
El-Bizri was an affiliated research scholar in thedepartment of history and philosophy of science at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1999 to 2010, primarily lecturing on medieval Islamic sciences and philosophy.[9][10] He has also been a visiting lecturer at the faculty of architecture at the University of Cambridge on Islamic architecture. He holds aChercheur associé position in history of science and philosophy at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris (Denis-Diderot, Paris VII, UMR 7219, SPHERE)[11] since 2006, and he was previously a lecturer in architecture at theUniversity of Nottingham, and taught atHarvard University.[12] He is a member of the Ordered Universe research team on mediaeval science that is supported by the BritishArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which is based at the University of Durham and Oxford University.[13][14] El-Bizri is an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Islamiques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris).[15] 2022 Dean of College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences University of Sharjah
El-Bizri is co-editor of a book series in phenomenology (Springer, formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht, Netherlands),[16] and as section editor (Islam) of theEncyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (SPRINGER, Dordrecht & Berlin). He is on the editorial boards of series and journals, such as theCambridge University Press journalArabic Sciences and Philosophy,Toposophia (series on philosophy and architecture; Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield),[17] Institute of Ismaili StudiesTexts and Translations Series (London: I. B. Tauris),[18] theEncyclopaedia Islamica (Leiden: E. J. Brill),[19] theJournal of World Philosophies (Indiana University Press),[20][21] and the Fundamentals of Scientific Research at The Arab Organization for Translation in Beirut (linked to the Centre for Arab Unity Studies).[22] He is the European representative of the Equipe d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Patrimoine Scientifique Arabe, which is part of the Lebanese Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He has written forAl-Hayat.[9][15][23]
El-Bizri has made several contributions to BBC radio and television cultural programs, including a discussion about the Persian philosopherAvicenna withMelvin Bragg and other guests onBBC Radio 4'sIn Our Time,[24] and an interview withJim Al-Khalili aboutIbn al-Haytham forBBC Four'sScience and Islam series.[25] He also recently took part in a panel on philosophy that was aired onFrance Culture in Paris in the seriesLes Chemins de la philosophie that is moderated byAdèle Van Reeth.[26][27]
El-Bizri has received several awards, including the Kuwait Prize 2014 from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.[28] He has been also ranked as one of the "Thought Leaders" in the Arab world via the Berggruen Institute and its various partners.[29][30]
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