Online symposium: “Al-Farabi: His Life and Legacy”
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
are pleased to invite you to an online symposium
“Al-Farabi: His Life and Legacy”
in commemoration of Al-Farabi’s 1,150th anniversary
17 July 2020
14:00 BST | 19:00 Nur-Sultan Time | 09:00 EST
Speakers:
Dr Farhan Nizami
Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Mr Erlan Idrissov
Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom
Professor Galimkair Mutanov
Rector of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Dr Feriel Bouhafa
Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Peter Adamson
Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany,
Professor Saida Daukeyeva
Assistant Professor, Music Department, Wesleyan University, USA
Moderated by:
Dr Talal Al-Azem
Mohammed Noah Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Lecturer in Islam, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, UK
The year 2020 marks the 1,150th anniversary of Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, one of the most original and influential of all Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. His intellectual activity spanned over areas as different as music, medicine, political theory, linguistics, logic, metaphysics, religion and philosophy at large. The symposium will bring together prominent scholars from the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Germany, and the United States to explore and discuss the multidimensional legacy of al-Farabi. Professor Galimkair Mutanov, who leads one of Kazakhstan’s oldest and most prestigious universities – the Kazakh National University, which for a good reason bears the name of Al-Farabi – will provide a keynote address. The discussion to follow will help expound among the broader public the understanding of Islamic culture, philosophy, civilisation and the historical contexts in which al-Farabi worked.