Anna Akasoy

Akasoy studied oriental studies, history and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, where she received her doctorate in oriental studies in 2005.^[1] Until 2008 she worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries.^[2] This was followed by positions as a lecturer and research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as associate professor at Hunter College in New York City.^[3] As of 2024^[update], Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY.^[1]

Akasoy's books include:

• The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics (edited with Alexander Fidora, Brill, 2005)^[4]
• Das Falken- und Hundebuch des Kalifen al-Mutawakkil: Ein arabischer Traktat aus dem 9 Jahrhundert (edited and translated with Stefan Georges, Akademie, 2005)^[5]
• Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit, die sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sab'īn (Brill, 2006)^[6]
• Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East (edited with James E. Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann, The E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007)^[7]
• Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Sismel–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008)^[8]
• Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ashgate, 2010)^[9]
• Rashīd al-Dīn: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, The Warburg Institute, 2013)^[10]
• Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (edited with Guido Giglioni, Springer, 2013)^[11]