Anna Ayșe Akasoy is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Akasoy works on the intellectual history of Islam, especially of al-Andalus, on Islamic philosophy as well as on Arab veterinary medicine, falconry and hunting.
[1] Until 2008 she worked as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, London, on the project Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions, 8th-17th Centuries.
[2] This was followed by positions as a lecturer and research assistant at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and as associate professor at Hunter College in New York City.
[3] As of 2024[update], Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, CUNY.