
Jawdath Jabbour is a research fellow at the CNRS (TDMAM, UMR 7297). He is a specialist in medieval Arabic philosophy, his research focuses mainly on the philosopher al Fārābī (d. 950), the relationship between philosophy and medicine and the philosophical doctrines of the soul in the Abbasid period. His research also focuses on codicology and history of philosophical manuscripts in Arabic, and on the Ottoman reception of Islamic philosophy. He is the author of De la matière à l'intellect. L'âme et la substance de l'homme dans la pensée de Fārābī (Vrin, 2021). He has been directing since 2023 the project “Entre foi et raison: Philosophie, Philosophie, théologie et mystique dans l'Occident musulman”, winner of a research grant “Pour une islamologie d'excellence” from the Institut français d'islamologie and he is currently preparing the edition of al-Fārābī’s Against Galen and, in collaboration with other researchers of Avicenna’s annotations on the De anima.