Profil

Hanif Amin-Beidokhti studierte Philosophie in Teheran und danach in München an der LMU, wo er unter der Betreuung von Prof. Peter Adamson auch promovierte. Seine Forschung konzentriert sich auf zentrale Konzepte an den Schnittstellen von Metaphysik, Logik und Naturphilosophie, wie sie vor allem in der Philosophie von Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) und seiner Schule entwickelt wurden. Er interessiert sich auch für Geschichte und Theorien der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung als Disziplin, wie sie sich im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert entwickelten und im modernen Europa wie auch in der islamischen Welt, insbesondere im persischsprachigen Kontext, in die Praxis umgesetzt wurden. Zu seinen bisherigen Postdoktorandenprojekten gehören Historiography of “Philosophy in the Islamic World” in Modern Iran und das vom ERC finanzierte Projekt Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World. Er hat Artikel über Avicenna (gest. 428/1037), Suhrawardī (umg. 587/1191), Abū Yaʿqūb Siǧistānī (gest. ca. 360/971), Mullā Ṣadrā (gest. ca. 1045/1635–1636), Aqā Ǧamāl Ḫwānsārī (gest. ca. 1122/1710) sowie zur Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie und falsafa in der Neuzeit (18.–20. Jahrhundert) in englischer und persischer Sprache veröffentlicht. Seit 2015 leitet er außerdem eine internationale Lesegruppe, die sich mit Werken zur Philosophie, Theologie und Logik in klassischem Persisch befasst.

Seine erste Monografie, Avicenna Illuminated (De Gruyter, Scientia Graeco-Arabica 39), untersucht Metaphysik, Naturphilosophie und Logik in den Werken von Avicenna und Suhrawardī und erforscht insbesondere die kritische Adaption der aristotelischen Lehren über die Kategorien und den Hylemorphismus innerhalb der islamischen philosophischen Tradition. Derzeit untersucht er im Rahmen des vom ERC finanzierten Projekts A_LIVE (Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation) das Leben, Werk und die Philosophie von Bahmanyār b. Marzbān (gest. 458/1066), Avicennas zoroastrischem Protegé, und dessen Rolle bei der Prägung von Avicennas Philosophie sowie der breiteren avicennischen Tradition in der islamischen Welt.

Forschungsinteressen

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna); Avicennas Philosophie im Verhältnis zu anderen Denkrichtungen in der islamischen Welt; Bahmanyār b. Marzbān; Suhrawardī und die illuministische Philosophie; Geschichte der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung; Philosophie (falsafa, ḥikma, kalām) in der persischsprachigen Welt.

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte

• ERC Project A_LIVE: Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation (ERC Starting Grant 2023).

Vormalige Forschungsprojekte

09.2024–02.2025 Post-doc Researcher, Radboud University, Netherland, Faculty of Philosophy, Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, ERC Project A_LIVE (Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation).

2022–2024      Post-doc Researcher, LMU Munich, Germany, Faculty of Philosophy, ERC Project "Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World". 

2021–2022      Post-doc Researcher, LMU Munich, Germany, Fritz-Thyssen Fellow. Topic: "Historiography of 'Philosophy in the Islamic World' in Modern Iran."

Publicationen

Bücher

Avicenna Illuminated: Suhrawardī’s Critique of Aristotelian Categories and Hylomorphism. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Scientia Graeco-Arabica 39, Ed. Marwan Rashed (forthcoming 2026).

[Persian] H. Amin Beidokhti and Z. Monajati (trans., intro. & notes), Peter Adamson: Philosophy in the Islamic World, A Very Short Introduction. Tehran: Šawand, 2019.

[Persian] H. Amin Beidokhti et al. (trans. & notes), J. R. Brown, The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences. Tehran: Hermes, 2014.

Artikel (peer reviewed)

“History of Philosophy in the Iranian Historiographies of Philosophy.” In: Humanities in Iran. Ed. by Sajjad Rizvi, Majid Daneshgar et al (Brill: Leiden, forthcoming 2026).

“The Resurrection of Animals in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.” In Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy, ed. Peter Adamson and Miira Tuominen (Brill: Leiden, 2026), 417–450.

“Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) on Eyesight and Vision.” In: Reader in Islamic Sensory History. Brill’s Handbook of Oriental Studies series. Ed. by Christian Lange and Adam Bursi (Brill: Leiden, 2024), 259–272.

“The Necessity and Goodness of Animals in Sijistānī’s Kashf al-Maḥjūb,” co-authored with Peter Adamson, Philosophies 9/3 (2024), 72.

“Historiography of Falsafa in Contemporary New Persian: History and Classification,” Die Welt des Islams (2025): 1–37.

“Iranian madrasa Historiographies on the Fate of Falsafa after Averroes: The Structure, Scope, and History of “Islamic Philosophy” from Mīr Dāmād to Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Āshtiyānī”, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies 36/3 (2025) 360–405.

[Persian] “Aflāṭūn dar āstāneh-ye dowrān-e modern: Pedarān-e Aflāṭūnpažūhī-ye modern az Fīčīno tā Mārbūrgīhā [Plato on the threshold of Modern Era: Fathers of modern Plato Scholarship from Ficino to the Marburger],” Pažūheš-hāye Falsafī-ye Dānešgāh-e Tabrīz (The Quarterly Journal of Philosophical Investigations of university of Tabriz), accepted, forthcoming.

[Persian] “Aflāṭūnpažūhī-ye Friedrich Schlegel: Bayān-e amr-e nāmotanāhī dar Aflāṭūn-e romāntīk [Friedrich Schlegel’s Plato Scholarship: Expression of the Infinite in Romantic Plato],” Taʾammolāt-e Falsafī-ye Dānešgāh-e Zanǧān (Philosophical Meditations of university of Zanjan) 32 (2024), 402–437.

[Persian] “Wīrāst-e tāzeh-yī keh tāzeh nīst: barresī-ye enteqādī-ye vapasīn čāp-e Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāyī [A New “Edition” which is no so New: A Critique on the Most Recent “Edition” of Avicenna’s Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāyī],” Pažūhešnāme-ye Enteqādī-ye Motūn wa Barnāmehā-ye ʿOlīm Ensānī (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences) 21/11 (Winter 2021-2022): 69-89.

[Persian] “Ahammiyat-e tārīḫī-o falsafī-ye Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāyī va bī-ǧāygāhī-ye ān dar Ibn Sīnā-pažūhī-ye moʿāṣer [The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Avicenna's Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāyī and its position in the Contemporary Avicenna Scholarship]”, Ayeneh-ye Maʿrefat 20/4 (12.1399 / 03.2021): 111-132.

“Suhrawardī on Division of Aristotelian Categories,” in Abdelkader Al Ghouz (ed.), Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century. Göttingen: V&R unipress, Bonn University Press, 2018, 377-408.

Video-Blog: “Historiography of Philosophy in the Islamic World”

Historiography of Philosophy: Interview with Prof. Dr. Nadja Germann.

Historiography of Philosophy: Interview with Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson.

Historiography of Philosophy: Interview with Prof. Dr. Reza Pourjavady I.

Historiography of Philosophy: Interview with Prof. Dr. Reza Pourjavady II.

Historiography of Philosophy: Interview with Prof. Dr. Sayeh Meisami.

Präsentationen und Aufsätze (Auswahl)

• “In Defence of the Peripatetics: Suhrawardī against Abū l-Barakāt on Void and Body,” The Reception and Transformation of the Late Ancient Knowledge Tradition in the Arabic-Muslim World, June 11–13, 2025, Workshop, Ruhr University of Bochum.
• “Proofs of the Imamate in Ismaili Neoplatonism: A Response to Asad Ahmed,” LMU Munich - UC Berkeley Conference, Metaphysics and Politics across the History of Philosophy, May 30–31, 2025, LMU Munich.
• “Intellect and Science: Divisions of Philosophy in Ibn Sīnā and the Emergence of an Avicennan-Ashʿarite Ethics,” Avicenna, Avicennism(s), and the Later Philosophical Traditions, International Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 15–17, 2024.
• “The Practice of Historiography of Philosophy in the long 20th-Century in Iran: History, Modes, and Motives,” Reception and Mis/Perception in Transcultural Intellectual History, University of Utrecht, January 26, 2024.
• “The Resurrection of Animals in Ṣadr al-Dīn Šīrāzī (d. ca. 1045/1635–6),” 11th International Colloquium of the S.I.H.S.P.A.I., LMU Munich, September 6–8, 2023.
• “Abū Yaʿqūb Sijistānī on Animals,” Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy: Conference of the ERC funded project Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World. Munich, May 18–20, 2023.
• “Avicenna and the Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāʾī,” Avicenna Day: Tardīd Virtual School of Philosophy, August 24, 2023.
• “Suhrawardī’s Reduction of the Aristotelian Categories: Evidence for a Reception Case of Enneads VI.1 and VI.2 in Mediaeval Arabic Philosophy?” History of Philosophy Workshop, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 05.05.2023.
• “Epistemology of the Relatives in Avicenna,” Deutscher Orientalistentag: 100. Jahrestag, 12. – 17. September 2022, FU Berlin, 12.09.2022.
• “Maʿrefatšenāsī-ye Moāżāf dar Ebn-e Sīnā,” Avicenna-Day’s Lectures, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 23.08.2022.
• “In Defense of Avicenna: Suhrawardī against Abū l-Barakāt on Void,” Avicennism(s) in Context: The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Orient-Institut Beirut 22-23 July 2022, 22.07.2022.
• “Historiography of falsafa in Contemporary New Persian: History, motivation, classification,” The Persian Philosophical Society, Sunday, May 29, Hybrid. 
• “Intellect and Science: Divisions of Philosophy in Ibn Sina and Their Relation to His Psychology and Theory of Intellect,” The International Conference on Philosophical Anthropology in Ibn Sina, 7th February 2022.
• “Avicenna’s Solution for the Puzzle of Definite Knowledge of the Correlatives in Aristotle,” TMU Monthly Lecture Series, December 16. 2020, Tarbiat Moadarres University of Tehran (Video Conference).
• “Suhrawardī on Prime Matter,” Heirs of Avicenna Workshop, May 24-25, 2019, at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, Sponsored by the DFG.
• “Avicenna and Suhrawardī on the Notion of the Cosmological Direction/Ǧiha, The Finitude of the Delimiting Sphere and the Realization of Directions. A Commentary on §13 of Partownāmeh,” LMU Berkeley Workshop: Post-Classical Philosophy in the Islamic World, Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, 14-15 December 2018
• “Suhrawardī and the Aristotelian Tradition,” Workshop, SBU Tehran, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 8. October 2018.
• “The Terminology of Substance and Accident in Greek and Arabic Philosophy,” PESHAT Workshop on Neoplatonic Terminology, Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg, 18-19.04.18.
• “A Neoplatonic criticism of Aristotelian Categories: Plotinian Thought in Suhrawardī's criticism of Substance and Accidents,” 15th Annual Conference for the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS 2017), June 14-17, 2017.
• “Suhrawardī on Division and Enumeration of Aristotelian Categories,” Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century – International Conference, Feb 24-26, 2016.

Forschungsaufenthalte

SS2023            University of Notre Dame, Department of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Forum.

Events/Workshops: LMU-AUB Workshop

LMU–OIB International Workshop, Avicennism(s) in Context: The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Orient-Institut Beirut 22-23 July 2022 [in cooperation with Hussein Ibrahm].

Mitgliedschaften

• Gesellschaft für Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (GPMR).
• International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS).
• Iranian Association for Religious Studies.
• The Persian Philosophical Society.