Biography:
- Junior Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, 2019 (Oct)–2022
- PhD (Divinity), Trinity College, Cambridge, 2015–2019, ("Trinity External Research Studentship" with the title of "Prince of Wales Student" by Trinity College, Honorary "Cambridge International Scholarship" by Cambridge Trust)
PhD Thesis: Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardi's Illuminationist Philosophy
- MPhil (Religious Studies), Department of Philosophy, and of Religious Studies, Peking University, 2012–2015
MPhil Thesis: Avicenna on Universals
- BA (Arabic), School of Arabic Studies, Beijing International Studies University (also known as Beijing Second Foreign Language University), 2006–2010
Subject area and speciality
- Religious Studies specialists:
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Suhrawardī's Illuminationist Philosophy
- Islamic studies specialists:
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Suhrawardī's Illuminationist Philosophy
Research Interests
- Suhrawardī & Illuminationism
- Avicenna
- Arabic Nominalism, Existentialism & (Neo-)Platonism
- Arabic Philosophy and Theology
Teaching
- Paper C9: Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2015–16)
- Paper B15: Introduction to Islam (2016–17, 2017–18)
Other Professional Activities
Conference Presentations
- “Suhrawardī on Mental Considerations”
Avicennan and Post-Avicennan Metaphysics, 3rd Annual History of Arabic Philosophy Group of Cambridge (HoAPGoC) Workshop
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, 9 July 2018
(I was also the organiser of this workshop.)
- “Suhrawardī on Light Metaphysics”
Medieval Philosophy Network, 19th Meeting
The Warburg Institute, University of London, 3 July 2018
- “Suhrawardī on Presential Knowledge”
Themes in Post-Classical Islamic Thought, 2nd HoAPGoC Workshop
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, 26 May 2017
- “Suhrawardī on the Nature of Illuminationism”
One-day-conference on Immateriality (organised by ‘Immateriality, Thinking and the Self in the Long Middle Ages’ project and ‘New Directions’ project)
Trinity College, Cambridge, 18 Feb 2016
