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Heidrun Eichner

Heidrun Eichner has joined the department of Orient-and-Islamic studies at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, as a professor of Islamic studies in 2010. She was a senior fellow at the Maimonides Center of Advanced Studies at the University Hamburg (in 2021 and in 2018), a visiting professor at FU Berlin in the ERC-project Theological Rationalism in the World of Medieval Islam (2009-2010), a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at MLU Halle (2006-2009), and a visiting research associate at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal (2004-2006).

Within TIDA she works on the subproject concerning the Arabic textual transmission of De Anima.

Representative Publications

Eichner, Heidrun 2011: Das Avicennische Corpus Aristotelicum: Zur ‚Virtualisierung‘ des Aristotelestextes in der Postavicennischen Tradition. In: Entre Orient et Occident: La Philosophie et la Science Gréco-Romaines dans le Monde Arabe (Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique 57), ed. Richard Goulet, Ulrich Rudolph. Vandoeuvres (Fondation Hardt), pp. 197-239.

Eichner, Heidrun 2018: Endoxa and the Theology of Aristotle in Avicenna’s “Flying Man”: Contexts for Similarities with Sceptical and Cartesian Arguments in Avicenna. In: Skeptical Paths. Ed. Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Franz Stephan Schmid, Emidio Spinelli. Berlin (De Gruyter), pp. 67-82.

Eichner, Heidrun 2010: al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā on ‘Universal Science’ and the System of Sciences: The Evidence of the Arabic Tradition on the Posterior Analytics. In: Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofia medievale 21, pp. 71- 95.

Eichner, Heidrun 2005, Averroes’ mittlerer Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ De Generatione et corruptione. Mit einer einleitenden Studie versehen, herausgegeben und kommentiert. Averroes Arabicus XVII; Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfaelischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Nr. 111) Paderborn 2005 (602p.).

Eichner, Heidrun 2002: Ibn Rushd’s Middle Commentary and Alexander’s Commentary in their Relationship to the Arabic Commentary Tradition on the De generatione et corruptione. In: Aristotele e Allesandro di Afrodisia nella tradizione araba. Ed. Cristina d’Ancona, Giuseppe Serra. (Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina 3). Padua (Poligrafo) 2002, pp. 281-297.