Dr. Bouhafa received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University and is now a senior research associate at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie in Arabic philosophy and Islamic sciences, focusing on law, ethics, and rhetoric and poetics. In her first book entitled Economy of Contingency in Ethics, Law, and Truth: Ibn Rushd\u2019s Moral Philosophy, currently under preparation, Bouhafa identifies a philosophy of law in Ibn Rushd\u2019s philosophical and legal works which not only assesses the epistemological basis of the Islamic system of knowledge but also admits the necessity of rectifying legal norms to redress ethical deficiencies stemming from the contingency of human actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
My appeal to study practices of commentary stems from my interest in Arabic philosophical commentaries of Greek texts. In fact, my focus has been on the reception of Aristotle\u2019s rhetoric and poetics as well as some of his political ideas in Arabic philosophy. However, I should underline that my aim is not only to showcase the reception of Greek ideas into the Arabic tradition, but I also strive to discern the imprint of the commentators\u2019 context on their construal of philosophical ideas. Taking a contextual approach, I seek to read philosophical ideas in Arabic commentaries through placing them in their own epistemological context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRhetoric in the court: Averroes on testimonial witnessing and oaths,\u201d in Commenter la Rh\u00e9torique d\u2019Aristote de l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode contemporaine<\/em>, ed. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Woerther (Leiden: Brill, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAverroes\u2019 corrective philosophy of law,\u201d in Interpreting Averroes<\/em>, eds. Peter Adamson and Matteo Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEthics and Fiqh in al-F\u0101r\u0101b\u012b\u2019s Philosophy,\u201d in Philosophy and jurisprudence in the Islamic World<\/em>, ed. Peter Adamson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter Adam: Ibn \u2018Aq\u012bl on language origin, change, and expansion,\u201d in Philosophy and Language<\/em>, ed. Nadja Germann (Berlin: De Gruyter, in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Economy of Contingency in Ethics, Law, and Truth: Averroes\u2019s Moral Philosophy<\/em> (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Special issue on \u201cCasuistry, contingency and Ambiguity: a New approach to the study of ethics in the Islamic tradition.\u201d the Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, forthcoming in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMoral Ontology, Epistemology and Psychology in Arabic Philosophy\u201d in the Special Issue on \u201c\u201cCasuistry, contingency and Ambiguity: a New approach to the study of ethics in the Islamic tradition,\u201d ed. Feriel Bouhafa, Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies<\/em>, forthcoming in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOther publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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