Dr. Salimeh Maghsoudlou is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. She specializes in classical and post-classical periods of medieval Islam with focus on Islamic thought, cultural history, and development of scholarly disciplines. Her research explores the interrelationships of Sufism, theology and philosophy and the social implications of scholarly practices. She is currently writing her first monograph tentatively titled Scholars on the Gallows: The Social, Juridical and Intellectual History of Apostasy in Medieval Islam. She is also a collaborator in the project 鈥淭he Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th to the 13th Century鈥� (LMU, Munich).
She has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from 脡cole Pratique des Hautes 脡tudes. In her dissertation on a sixth-twelfth century scholar, 士Ayn al-Qu岣嵞乼 al-Hamad膩n墨, she examined the way Ash士arite theology and Avicennan philosophy were adopted and used to build a hybrid popularization of scholarly knowledge destined to the administrators in the Salj奴q court.听听Her dissertation was awarded the best dissertation of the year 2016 on a topic of Iranian Studies by the Foundation for Iranian Studies.
Her recent publications include:
鈥淧opularization of Philosophy in the Sufi Milieu: The Reception of Avicenna鈥檚 Doctrine of the Origination of the Human Soul in 鈥楢yn al-Qu岣嵞乼 al-Hamad膩n墨鈥檚 Writings鈥� in The Popularization of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, eds. L. Muehlethaler and Steven Harvey, Brepols (forthcoming).
鈥淭he Status of the Spirit in al-Mustaml墨 al-Bu岣乺墨鈥檚 艩ar岣� al-Ta士arruf: Case Study of the Interrelationships of Hanafite Sufism, Sunn墨 碍补濒腻尘 and Avicennism in the Fifth/Eleventh Century Transoxiana,鈥� Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 28 (2018): pp.225-255.
芦脡tude des doctrines du nom dans al-Maq峁d al-asn膩 d鈥檃l-Ghaz膩l墨 et de leur origine th茅ologique et grammaticale禄, Studia Islamica, vol. 112, No.1, 2017, pp.29-75
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