BA, MA (Boston University), PhD (Yale University)
Associate Professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought

Office: 1824 University Hall
Telephone: (312) 413 3842
E-mail:  dreisman@uic.edu

Areas of Research and Publication:
Classical Arabic philosophy, history of science, theology, language, and literature.

Recent Publications - Books:
- (co-editor with Jon McGinnis and translator) Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2007 .
- (co-editor with Jon McGinnis) Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in
Medieval Islam. Proceedings of the Second Avicenna Study Group Colloquium. Leiden:
Brill, 2004. Pp. xviii + 255. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science series, vol. 53).
- (editor) Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Avicenna Study
Group Colloquium. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. xix + 302. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology
and Science series, vol. 51).
- The Making of the Avicennan Tradition: The Transmission, Contents, and Structure
of Ibn Sina’s al-Mubahathat (The Discussions), Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xx + 333.
(Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science series, vol. 49).

Work in Progress:
- The syntax of formal arguments in medieval Arabic philosophy
- Medieval Arabic medical textbooks

Courses recently taught:
- The History of Islamic Theology
- Seminar on the Quran
- Introduction to Islam
- History of Science in the Islamic World
- Classical Arabic
- History of Islamic Philosophy

Books

This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields—including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics—to which they made significant contributions.  

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