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Lecture

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Medieval Philosophy 2: Saint Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham

Tuesday 28.07.2026

Summary

In this continuing series, we now focus on how Christian philosophers engaged Greek philosophy and merged reason with the faith. A fascinating look at European Christendom.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Hawaii University Press, 2023).