Research field (2):
History - Asia/Africa
, History of thought
Research keywords (18):
Middle Ages
, Early Modern Period
, Near and Middle East
, Central Asia
, Islam
, Philosophy
, History
, Religion
, Intellectual History
, Geistesgeschichte
, History of Science
, Natural Philosophy
, Occult Sciences
, Philology
, Theory of Science
, Metaphysics
, Arabic
, Persian
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2024 - 2027 Imaginary Reflux: A Comparative Cultural-Historical Study of the Ecological Imagination in the Borderlands.
2022 - 2025 An Interaction History of Magic between Islam and West from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
2019 - 2022 Islamicate Cosmology according to the 13th- to 15th-Century Theologico-Philosophical Texts
2009 - 2012 Akbarian Theology of the 14th to 15th Centuries
Papers (8):
Yuki Nakanishi. The Akbarian Tradition, Astrology, and Astral Magic: A Japanese Translation of the Fourteenth Chapter of the Part on the Revelation of the Universal Secret in Mullā al-Fanārī’s (d. 1431) Lamp of Intimacy [forthcoming]. Bulletin of the Department of Islamic Studies (University of Tokyo). 2024. 6
Yuki Nakanishi. The One as Letter and Existence: Ibn Turka (d. 1432) between Neopythagoreanism and the Akbarian Tradition. Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies. 2024. 55. 115-132
Yuki Nakanishi. Essay Review: A History of Hermetica and the Image of Hermes in the Arabo-Islamicate World. Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies. 2022. 53. 239-278
Yuki Nakanishi. Between God and the World. Late Medieval Akbarian Theology within the Post-Avicennian Traditions of Philosophy. Doktorarbeit, vorgelegt an der Univ. Tübingen. 2019
Yuki Nakanishi. Post-Avicennian Controversy over the Problem of Universals. Saʿdaddīn at-Taftāzānī (d. 1389/90) and Šamsaddīn al-Fanārī (d. 1431) on the Reality of Existence. S. Conermann & A. Al Ghouz (eds.): Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century. Bonn: Bonn UP. 2018. 357-374
Hiro Hirai, Yuki Nakanishi. Mysticism and Occult Sciences in Islam and Europe [in Japanese]. Amazon Kindle. 2021
Yuki Nakanishi. History of Arabic-Islamic Philosophy in the post-Avicennian Era. Philosophierezeption by Theologians/Mystics and Its Relationship to the Translation Movements from Greek into Arabic, from Latin into Arabic, and from Arabic into Latin. UTCMES News Letter. 2017. 10
Lectures and oral presentations (27):
Music of Heaven: Pythagoras and Astral Magic in Islam
(Renaissance Society of America, Chicago 2024)
Zodiac, Heat, and the Human Talisman: Mullā al-Fanārī’s Akbarian Reworking of Magic and Astrology
(Public Lecture at the Institute for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents of the University of Amsterdam 2024)
Deifying Causalities: Astral Magic and Divine Names in Mullā al-Fanārī’s Akbarian Theology
(International Conference: Articulating Oneness, Matsue, Shimane 2024)
Mullā al-Fanārī (d. 1431) on Divine Names, Human Beings, and Astral Magic
(65th Annual Meeting at the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Notre Dame Seishin Women Univ., Okayama), Nov 20, 2011 2023)
Magic between Wonders and Philosophy in Islamic Theology
(Renaissance Society of America, San Juan 2023)