Hisashi Obuchi, M.A.
Contact
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Philosophisches Seminar, Room 1073
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
hisashi.obuchi@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de
Education
- 2020-: Doctoral Student in Islamic Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg – the working title of the dissertation: “Zayn al-Dīn al-Kashshī’s (d. before 1228) Moral Philosophy” (supervisor: Prof. Nadja Germann)
- 2017–2021: Doctoral Student in Islamic Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 2015–2017: M.A. in Islamic Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 2011–2015: B.A. in Islamic Studies, The University of Tokyo
Research Interests
- Islamic theology and Arabic philosophy (especially in the 13th century)
- Moral philosophy
- Arabic logic
- Arabic script manuscripts
Publications (selection)
- forthcoming: "Knowledge for All: Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī (d. before 1228) on Philosophical Writing," in Inscribing Knowledge, ed. Sajjad Rizvi and Kazuo Morimoto.
- 2019: “Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Did Not Complete His Tafsīr: New Evidence from Yanābīʿ al-ʿulūm (or Aqālīm al-taʿālīm) of the Uncredited Shams al-Dīn al-Khuwayyī,” Isuramu-sekai 92, 27–51 [in Japanese].
- 2019: "In the Wake of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: A Critical Edition of Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī’s Introduction to Ḥadāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq,” AJAMES (Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies) 35 (1), 185–207.
- 2018: “Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Occult Science as Philosophy: An Aspect of the Philosophical Theology of Islam at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century,” AJAMES 34 (1), 1–33 (awarded the biennial Young Scholar Prize of the Association in May 2019).
Research Grants and Fellowships
- Oct. 2020-: DAAD Research Grant
- April 2018–March 2020: Research Fellow of JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
- April 2018 – March 2020: JSPS KAKENHI Grant (18J10539), “Theology and Politics in Islam: The Philosophical Theology of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and His School”