Philosophical Hermeneutics and Islamic Thought

Sylvain Camilleri is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the Catholic University of Louvain. His areas of specialization are continental philosophy of religion and contemporary Islamic thought. He has authored two monographs on Heidegger and several articles on thinkers such as Mohammed Arkoun, Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid and Hassan Hanafi.  Selami Varlik is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the Istanbul 29 Mayis University in Turkey. His areas of specialization are phenomenological hermeneutics (Ricoeur, Gadamer) and Islamic philosophy, especially Avicenna. He has authored articles on these topics as well as on contemporary Islamic thought and a monograph on appropriation in Ricoeur.

• Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Falsafa?.- L’image est-elle traduisible en concept ? Discours poétique et plaisir intellectuel chez Avicenne.- An Idea of Political Hermeneutics in Fārābī’s Philosophy.- Interpréter ou ne pas interpréter. La question herméneutique de la « docte ignorance » chez Ibn ‘Arabī.- The “Veil of Glory”: Perplexity (ḥayra) and Revelation in the Qur’ānic Hermeneutics of Ibn ʿArabī.- Cosmic Hermeneutics: A Critical Appraisal of Henry Corbin’s Hermeneutical Approach.- Building Islamic Thought on New Foundations: Shabestari’s Manifold Use of Hermeneutics.- Revelation, Prophetic Reading of the World, and the End of Fiqh. Shabestari’s Hermeneutical Approach to the Qur’ān.- Retrieving the Foundations and Future of Islamic Modernism: Rahman and Shabestari on Hermeneutics, Prophetic Epistemology, and the Modern Islamic State.- Twentieth Century Commentary of the Qur’ān: From Hermeneutics to Praxis:  Maqāṣid al-Shari‘aand Maqāṣid al-Qur’ān.- Hermeneutics and Islamic Liberation Theologies: Hasan Hanafi and Hamid Dabashi.- On the Limits of Islamist Heideggerianism: A Critique of Sayyidian Onto-Theology.- Naskh as a Key to the Ontology of the Qur’ān.- Toward a “Devilish” Hermeneutics of the Qur’ān.