Dr. des. Mostafa Najafi

Contact

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Philosophisches Seminar, Room 1073
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau

mostafa.najafi@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de

Education

• 2012–2019: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, PhD in Arabic Philosophy, Research Group LiDiAC, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadja Germann; Dissertation Title: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Philosophy of Language between Bayān and Burhān
• 2009–2012: Shahid Beheshti University, Master of Arts (Philosophy); Master's Thesis: The Relationship between λόγος and πάθος in Chrysippus and Poseidonius
• 2006–2009: Mofid University, Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy)

Research Areas

• Logic, language and epistemology in the Islamic world
• Metaphysics in the Islamic world
• Islamic intellectual history and historiography
• Persian and Arabic manuscript studies

Publications

Books

• Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World (Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context, 2), ed. together with N. Germann, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021

• Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Philosophical Theory of Language Between Manṭiq and Bayān (Welten des Islams - Worlds of Islam - Mondes de l’Islam), Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)

Articles

• “Mysteries in Transformation: ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī in the 20^th Century” (in preparation)