Georgetown’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies is proud to continue its seminars on Theology in Arabic, fostering greater understanding through intimate encounters with diverse forms of religious expression in Arabic. These recurring seminars invite scholars to share their work with us via Arabic theological texts in translation, and foster a deeper appreciation of theological reasoning within Muslim, Jewish, Christian traditions – and beyond. Attendees are invited to participate in witnessing the reading of Arabic theological texts wherein the authorial voices of figures from diverse religious traditions are foregrounded, and Arabic is taken seriously by scholars as a significant vehicle of human expression, past and present.
Theology in Arabic Themes: Speculative theology Providence and theodicy Contemplation, spiritual practice & autobiography Virtue ethics and wisdom traditions. Poetics of devotion, prayer, liturgy Ascesis/Mysticism Sainthood/Sufism Covenantal Theology Philosophy, Science, and Natural Philosophy Epistemology Psychology; the Soul
Title: An Ashʿarite’s Denial of Incarnation and a Coptic Christian’s Response: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and al-Ṣafī ibn al-ʿAssāl on Indwelling and Uniting
Presenter: Dr. Salam Rassi, University of Edinburgh
