About the AuthorDr. Tamara Albertini is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, specializing in Renaissance and Islamic thought. She is also the Director of the Islamic Studies Certificate.
Dr. Albertini has a Lic.phil. from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a Dr.phil. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany). She was raised in Tunisa where she learned Arabic and attended Qur'anic classes. In summer 2015 she returned to Tunisia for the first time in 33 years. What follows is a narrative in which she fuses her knowledge of Tunisia and the Islamic world in general with her first-hand observations after the bloody attacks in Sousse on June 26, 2015. On occasion, there are also autobiographical passages. |
Her Publications |
Within Islamic philosophy Tamara Albertini's publications aim at reintroducing the vigor and vision of Muslim intellectual contributions from the classical period. Her seminal article “The Seductiveness of Certainty. Fundamentalists' Destruction of Islam's Intellectual Legacy,” Philosophy East and West (2003) has been quoted in annual reports to Congress since the year it was published. This article and many more of her publications may be downloaded at no charge from http://www.academia.edu/ after a brief sign in.
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Acknowledging |
The trip to Tunisia in summer 2015 was funded by comparative philosophy journal Philosophy East and West. The scholarly purpose of the trip was to enable the author to partner with Tunisian philosophers to work together on a special issue on Ibn Khaldun (1406).
The author wishes to thank her colleague Dr. Roger Ames, chief editor of Philosophy East and West, and Michael Duckworth, Director of University of Hawai'i Press for their support. |