- Tenured Research Professor, Level D, SNII III
- Email: llopez@up.edu.mx
- Profile:
Dr. Luis Xavier López Farjeat is a tenured professor and researcher (Level D) in the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City Campus.
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” (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org) and editor of *Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía* (https://revistas.up.edu.mx/topicos/es).
He is a professor of Islamic philosophy in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UNAM and of Islamic philosophy and intellectual history in the Master’s Program in Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a resident scholar at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including Marquette University, the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, Princeton Theological Seminary, the University of Navarra, the University of the 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 world, Arabic philosophy, and the intellectual history of the Middle East; on the interaction between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophies; and on the role of Middle Eastern Christian traditions in the transmission of Greek philosophy to the Islamic context.
His books include *Reasons, Arguments, and Beliefs: Reflections Based on Classical Islamic Philosophy* (2018) and *Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction* (2022). He is also a co-author and co-editor of *Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century* (2013), *The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy* (2016), *Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions* (2023), and *Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job. The Disruptive Challenges of God (2025). He has also contributed as an author to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and has served as a guest editor for the journals *Anuario Filosófico* and *The Muslim World*.
Research Areas:
- Arab and Islamic Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Arab and Syriac Reception of Greek Philosophy
- The Latin Reception of Arabic Philosophy
- Hegel
Areas of interest:
- Theory of Argumentation, Theory of Knowledge, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Ethics and Political Philosophy, Ethics of Immigration, Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Literature.
Research Projects
- “Aristotelian and Neoplatonic Perspectives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”
- “Migration, Territory, and Identities.”
- “Experiences of the Divine in the Abrahamic Traditions”
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