Graeco-Arabic studies
Islamic intellectual history
Philosophy
Literature
Current Projects
The project investigates the medieval Arabic philosophical approaches to poetry, particularly whether poetry should be composed for aesthetical, psychological, or political purposes.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants (selection)
- PhD stipend at Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (Musaφ) at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU)
Prizes (selection)
- University of Copenhagen’s Gold medal for the thesis Marvelling at the Heart: A Study of al-Ghazālī’s ʿAjāʾib al-Qalb and its Reception in the Islam and Psychology Movement
Education
- BA: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Institute for Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
- MA: Islamic Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
- MA: Islamic Studies at Institute for Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
- PhD: Musaφ, LMU
Publication
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Chapters in books
- Al-Farabi og det retskafne samfund, Den politiske filosofis vestlige historie, Hans Reitzels forlag, 2022 (peer-reviewed)
- Al-Ghazālī og den ordentlige debat, Festskrift for Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Vandkunsten, 2023
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Articles
- Æstetik og logik: Receptionen af Aristoteles’ Poetik i arabisk Middelalder, Slagmark, Aarhus Universitet (pending publication, november 2024)
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Translations
- Den retskafne by (translation chapter 15, al-Farabi: Den retskafne by (The Virtuous City), Den politiske filosofis vestlige historie, Hans Reitzels forlag, 2022, (peer-reviewed)
Presentations (selection)
- The prophet as leader of the virtuous city in Avicenna’s political thought, Philosophy in Context, Philosophy, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
- Paper presentation: The Medieval Arabic reception of Aristotle's Poetics – What’s logic got to do with it?, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Aristotle’s Poetics in medieval Arabic philosophy – Understanding drama without theatres, Danish Institute in Athens
- Avicenna’s poetic philosophy: the meaning and intention of Avicenna’s philosophical stories, 1st Berlin-Munich-Tübingen Graduate Workshop, Humboldt Universität
- Ibn Sīnā’s Imaginative Speech, conference: Analogy and Justification in Premodern Science, Tel Aviv University
- Ibn Rushd’s Virtue Poetics: A New Direction for Medieval Arabic Aristotelian Poetics, LMU-Cambridge postgraduate workshop, Cambridge University