Nader El-Bizri ( ar, نادر البزري, ''nādir al-bizrĩ'') is the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the

University of Sharjah The University of Sharjah ( ar, جامعة الشارقة, jāmiʿat aš-šāriqah; also known as UOS) is an Emirati private national university located in University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was established in October 1997 by i ...

. He served before as a tenured longstanding full Professor of philosophy and civilization studies at the American 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.AUB official webpage of Nader El-Bizri
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phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

Islamic science Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids, the Buyids in Persia, the Abbasid Caliphate an ...

and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

, and architectural theory. He is the author or editor of several books, including ''The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger'' (2000).

Education

El-Bizri received a degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research.

Career

Academic positions

El-Bizri is a professor of philosophy and civilization studies at the American 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 of

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

, and also oversees the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature. He was previously a visiting professor of visual studies at the

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and a principal lecturer (reader) in architecture. He was an affiliated senior research fellow in philosophy at the

Institute of Ismaili Studies The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is a research institute in London, United Kingdom. It aims to promote the study of Muslim cultures and societies, both historical and contemporary, in order to foster a greater understanding of their relatio ...

, London, and is general editor (and managing editor ''ex officio'') of an

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book series published in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, entitled: ''Epistles of the Brethren of Purity Series'' رسائل إخوان الصفاء . He was a co-manager of a joint project between the Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institut Français du Proche Orient, formerly based in Damascus and now in

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. El-Bizri was an affiliated research scholar in the department of history and philosophy of science at the

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from 1999 to 2010, primarily lecturing on medieval Islamic sciences and philosophy. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the faculty of architecture at the University of Cambridge on Islamic architecture. He holds a ''Chercheur associé'' position in history of science and philosophy at the

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in Paris (Denis-Diderot, Paris VII, UMR 7219, SPHERE) since 2006, and he was previously a lecturer in architecture at the

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, and taught at

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. He is a member of the Ordered Universe research team on mediaeval science that is supported by the British

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(AHRC), which is based at the University of Durham and Oxford University. 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). 2022 Dean of College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences University of Sharjah

Writing, television

El-Bizri is co-editor of a book series in phenomenology (Springer, formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht, Netherlands), and as section editor (Islam) of the ''Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions'' (SPRINGER, Dordrecht & Berlin). He is on the editorial boards of series and journals, such as the

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journal ''Arabic Sciences and Philosophy'', ''Toposophia'' (series on philosophy and architecture; Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield), Institute of Ismaili Studies ''Texts and Translations Series'' (London: I. B. Tauris), the ''Encyclopaedia Islamica'' (Leiden: E. J. Brill), the ''Journal of World Philosophies'' (Indiana University Press), and the Fundamentals of Scientific Research at The Arab Organization for Translation in Beirut (linked to the Centre for Arab Unity Studies). 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 for ''

Al-Hayat Al-Hayat ( ar, الحياة meaning "Life") was a London-based, pan-Arab newspaper owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan, that had a circulation estimated over 200,000. It was the newspaper of record for the Arab diaspora and the preferred v ...

''. El-Bizri has made several contributions to BBC radio and television cultural programs, including a discussion about the Persian philosopher Avicenna with Melvin Bragg and other guests on

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's ''In Our Time'', and an interview with

Jim Al-Khalili Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili ( ar, جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in scien ...

about

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for BBC Four's ''Science and Islam'' series. He also recently took part in a panel on philosophy that was aired on

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in Paris in the series '' Les Chemins de la philosophie'' that is moderated by Adèle Van Reeth.

Awards

El-Bizri has received several awards, including the Kuwait Prize 2014 from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. He has been also ranked as one of the "Thought Leaders" in the Arab world via the Berggruen Institute and its various partners.Berggruen Institute, LA, California
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Books

As author and co-author * (2000). ''The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger'' (Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Publications, SUNY); reprinted with an updated preface in 2014. * (2004). ''L'expérience'' (Paris: Editions la Découverte), co-authored with Jean-Pierre Cléro,

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, G-K Karanth, and

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, with a foreword by Nadia Tazi. As editor and co-editor * (2008). ''Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Contributor of the "Prologue", 1–32, and chapter 7: "Epistolary Prolegomena: On Arithmetic and Geometry", 180–213. * (2012). ''Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Arithmetic and Geometry. Arabic Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 1 & 2'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press). * (2012)
''Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics''
by

Roshdi Rashed Roshdi Rashed (Arabic: رشدي راشد), born in Cairo in 1936, is a mathematician, philosopher and historian of science, whose work focuses largely on mathematics and physics of the medieval Arab world. His work explores and illuminates the un ...

(London: Routledge). * (2013). ‘Islam Division’ of the ''Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions'', eds. Anne Runehov, Lluis Oviedo ''et al.'' (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer). * (2014). ''Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook'', co-edited with Angela Bartram and Douglas Gittens (Farnham: Ashgate). * (2015). ''Asad Rustum: Mu'assis 'ilm al-tarikh fi al-'alam al-'arabi'', co-edited with Lamia Shehadeh, Souad Sleem, Maher Jarrar (Beirut: Dar al-Farabi). * (2017). ''Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon (Pratiquer la philosophie au Liban umârasat al-falsafa fî lubnân'', a trilingual volume ed. Nader El-Bizri (Beirut-Bonn: German Orient-Institut Beirut, in association with Dar al-Farabi). * (2018). ''Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Composition and the Arts. Arabic Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 6-8''; co-edited with Godefroid de Callataÿ (Oxford: Oxford University Press). * (2018) ''The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures'', eds. Nader El-Bizri and Eva Orthmann. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag (Orient-Institut series ''BTS'' 138). * (2022) ''On Being and Time: The Section on Heidegger in Charles Malik's 1937 Harvard Thesis'', ed. Nader El-Bizri. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag (Orient-Institut series ''BTS'' 143).

References

Webpage of Nader El-Bizri, University of SharjahWebpage of Nader El-Bizri, American University of BeirutWebpage of Nader El-Bizri, Academia.edu
* Webpage of Nader El-Bizri, Arabic Wikipedia
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