Carmela Baffioni

Carmela Baffioni is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, having previously been Professor of the History of Islamic Philosophy and of the History of Muslim Philosophies and Sciences at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' until 2012. Her publications include: several monographs on the transmission of Greek thought into Islam; translations of works by the Ikhwan al-Safa', al-Farabi, and Averroes, as well as al-Shahrastani; in addition, she has written a monograph on...See more

Carmela Baffioni is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, having previously been Professor of the History of Islamic Philosophy and of the History of Muslim Philosophies and Sciences at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale' until 2012. Her publications include: several monographs on the transmission of Greek thought into Islam; translations of works by the Ikhwan al-Safa', al-Farabi, and Averroes, as well as al-Shahrastani; in addition, she has written a monograph on Aristotle's Meteorologica IV (1981), and books on the history of Muslim philosophy. Besides the Ikhwan al-Safa', her articles focus on al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Yahya ibn 'Adi, Avicenna, Averroes, and some Latin elaborations of Arabic heritage. She has translated books from German and Russian, and edited six collective works. See less