Dr. Tony Street

Biography

Tony Street completed his undergraduate degree in Asian Studies (Arabic) and earned his doctorate on Medieval Islamic Theology at the Australian National University in 1989. Since joining Cambridge in 1999, he has held positions such as Visiting Professor at the Centre d’Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales, Paris 7, and Mellon Sawyer Visiting Professor at Berkeley, where he focused on Near Eastern Studies in 2014. His editorial contributions span several journals, including History Philosophy Logic and Arabic Sciences Philosophy. Street has been the Principal Investigator for multiple significant research grants, notably the project Investigating Aristotelian Logic, East West from 2005 to 2008 and a project on major issues and controversies in Arabic logic and philosophy from 2011 to 2014. His research interests center on the intellectual history of the Islamic world during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, particularly the interplay between Aristotelian philosophy and Islamic sciences. He examines logical texts produced during this era and the philosophical innovations introduced by figures like Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. His pedagogical contributions include teaching Islamic Philosophy and Arabic Philosophical Texts, as well as supervising research in religious studies at Clare Hall.

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