Dr. Luis Xavier López Farjeat is full professor-researcher D in the Faculty of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, Campus Ciudad de México.
He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level III. He is associate director of the "Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group" and editor of Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía.
He is a professor of Islamic philosophy in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UNAM and of Islamic intellectual history in the Master's Program in Judaic Studies at the Universidad Hebraica de México. He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and a resident researcher at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.
He has been a visiting professor at various universities such as Marquette University, University of Notre Dame, Catholic University of America, Princeton Theological Seminary, Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de los Andes and El Colegio de México.
He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the transmission and transformation of ancient philosophy in the Islamic environment, Arab philosophy and Middle Eastern intellectual history, the interaction between Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophies, and also on the mediation of Middle Eastern Christianities in the process of transmission of Greek philosophy to the Islamic context.
He is co-author and co-editor of the Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century (Paris, 2013) and The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (London & New York, 2016). His most recent books are. Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction (Routledge, 2021) and Reasons, Arguments, and Beliefs. Reflections from Classical Islamic Philosophy. (Pamplona, 2018).
He currently directs two research projects, the first, "Aristotelian and Neoplatonic Perspectives on Judaism, Christianity and Islam", and the second, "Migration, Territory and Identities".