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Congratulations to Dr. Feriel Bouhafa on her new position

Congratulations to Dr. Feriel Bouhafa on accepting a position as a University Lecturer (Temporary) in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (UK). 

During her Postdoctoral Fellowship  at Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Philosophy department), Feriel participated in a number of conferences and workshops in France (Université Paris Sorbonne), Germany (Munich school of ancient philosophy), and England (University of Exeter), among others, and prepared the following forthcoming publications:

  “Toward an Islamic philosophy of Law: Averroes’ Corrective View of Law under al-sunna al-maktūba and ghayr al-maktūba,” in Interpreting
Averroes, eds. Peter Adamson and Matteo Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

  “And He Taught Adam all Names: Ibn‘Aqīl on the Origin of language and its Evolution,” in Philosophy and Language, ed. Nadja Germann
(De Gruyter, forthcoming).

  “Rhetoric in the Court: Testimony and Oaths in Averroes Talkhis al-khataba,” in L’Histoire des commentaires à la Rhétorique d’Aristote, ed. Frédérique Woerther (Paris: Vrin, forthcoming).

  “Law and ethic in Farabi and Averroes,” in Philosophy and Islamic
jurisprudence, ed. Peter Adamson (DeGruyter, forthcoming).