Godefroid de Callataÿ

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oriental Institute at Université catholique de Louvain

Areas of expertise

- - History of Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
- - Medieval Encyclopaedism
- - Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’

Major works

G. de Callataÿ, Annus Platonicus. A Study of World Cycles in Greek, Latin and Arabic Sources (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 47), Louvain - Paris: Peeters, 1996, xvi-287 p.
G. de Callataÿ,_ Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'. A Brotherhood of Idealists on the Fringe of Orthodox Islam_, "Makers of the Muslim World", Oxford: Oneworld, 2005, xvii-122 p.
G. de Callataÿ – B. Van den Abeele (ed.), Une lumière venue d'ailleurs : Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d'Orient et d'Occident au Moyen Age, Actes du colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve (19-21 mai 2005), Turnhout : Brepols (Réminisciences, 9), 2008, xi-298 p.
G. de Callataÿ - B. Halflants, The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, On Magic. 1. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 52A, Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011, xviii+198 p. (and 110 p. of Arabic).
P. E. Walker – I. K. Poonawala – D. Simonovitz – G. de Callataÿ, The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, Sciences of the Soul and Intellect Part I. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 32-36, Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015, xxiii+270 p. (and 202 p. of Arabic).

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About me

Godefroid de Callataÿ is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. He has specialized in the history of Arabic sciences and philosophy, and the role played by Islam in the transmission of knowledge from Greek Antiquity to the Latin West during the Middle Ages. Amongst other subjects, he has published extensively on the encyclopaedic corpus known as Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (‘Epistles of the Brethren of Purity’). Since 2016, he also directs ‘PhilAnd’, an Advanced Grant ERC project of the European Commission on the emergence of philosophy in al-Andalus: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/philand.html.