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Professor Ihsan Abdulgalil Shaher was born in Aden City (Republic of Yemen) on July 19, 1954.Having completed a school in Taiz city, he entered Sann’a University in 1976 at the Educational Faculty, Department of Social Sciences .In the year 1979 he was admitted to the Preparatory College in Moscow University. Over there, he studied the Russian language and some of the subjects related to the general major studies, for a full year. He achieved a rating of honors and very good in all of subjects of study.Acoording to that, he was accepted for admission in 1980 to the Faculty of Philosophy in Moscow University. He was given the MASTER’S DEGREE in 1985, from the same University, and his thesis was about Being and Consciousness. After that, directly, he continued the higher education in the same faculty, and wrote the Ph.D., Dissertation about philosophical Doctrine of Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi and did the advocacy on the Dissertation in 1989 .The academic Board which he did the advocacy on the dissertation in front of, have rated the Dissertation a high academic rating. In 1990 he started working for the University of Sann’a, in the Faculty of Arts, the Philosophy departments as a lecturer in History of Modern European philosophy. Later he taught many Courses, including Greek philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Philosophical Methods, Sufism, (Mysticism) and Kalam (Islamic Theology). From 1993 till 1994 ,professor Ihsan Shaher ,played an essential role in establishment the   Al-Mahwit Faculty of Education  and taught over  there several philosophical subjects .On July 26th  1967, he was promoted to the position Associated professor  at Sann’a University .Professor Ihsan Shaher  was one of the main prompters of a constitution of a Degree program Master at the Department of Philosophy, and was a reviewer of several theses. He participated in many scientific meetings organized by Sann’a University, Aden University, and Moscow University .Also, being a member of the Yemeni Socio- Philosophical Society and the Yemeni Writer’s Union he participated,  actively, in their cultural activities. From June 2002 till June 2003, Dr. Ihsan Shaher worked at University of Toronto as a researcher of Islamic Philosophy and read some lectures in this field. From 2003 till 2004, he worked for the Canadian Institute of Islamic Sciences, in the city of Toronto. PUBLICATIONS PAPERS:

1. Shaher, I.1997. Al-Mutakaleamin’s Views on Natural Philosophy and The structure of Material World, Jerash Journal, Jerash University Jordan, 1997. 2. Shaher, I.1997. Al-Mutakaleamin’s Views on Movement, Journal of Faculty of Arts, Sann’a University, no, 20, pp.120-144. 3. Shaher, I.1996. Al-Mutakaleamin’s Arguments about Atoms’ Existence, Journal of Faculty of Arts, Sann’a University, no, 9, pp.52-63. 4. Shaher, I.1994. The culture of Modernization and Democracy in Yemeni Society, Journal al-Hikma, no, 200, pp.53-68. 5. Shaher, I.1986. Aristotle’s Views of Time, Journal Al-Thaqafa al-Jadida, no, 6.pp.17-22. 6. Shaher, I.1988. The problem of Continuity in Development of philosophical Knowledge, Journal al-Thaqafa al-Jadidah, no, 6, pp.74-78. 7. Shaher, I. A Critical Analysis of A.Kh. Kasmijanov’s book "Al-Farabi," al-Thaqafa al-Jadidah, no, 5, pp.93-101. 8. Shaher, I.1987. The problem of Subject and Object in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge, Journal al- Thaqafa al-Jadidah, no, 4, pp.170-77. 9. Shaher, I. 1987. Hegel’s Philosophy of History, Journal al-Yemen al-Jadid, no, 7, pp.119-24. 10. Shaher, I.1986. Some problems of Arts According to Aristotle, Journal al-Yemen al-Jadid, no, 3, pp.82-90. 11. Shaher, I.1985. The Methodology of Historic Knowledge According to Ibn Khaldun, Journal al-Yemen al-Jadid, no, 5, pp.92-99.

UNPUBLISHED BOOKS AND STUDIES: 1. Shaher, I.The Natural Philosophy of al-Mutakaleamn. (Book under publication). 2. Shaher, I. The History of Sufism. (Book in manuscript) 3. Shaher, I. Abu Bakr Al-Razi’s Metaphysics and Physics (study).

TRANSLATED WORKS INTO ARABIC:

1. Nasr, S.H.. The Meaning of Nature in Various Intellectual Perspectives in Islam, Journal al-Thaqafa al-Jadidah, 1991, no, 8, pp.44-49./trans.from English/. 2. Londin, A.C. The Yemeni Culture in Sixth Century, Journal al-Thaqafa al- Jadidah, no, 2, pp.4-17. /trans. from Russian/. 3. Gureeva, A.V. Dewey’s Aesthetics Journal al-Thaqafa al-Jadidah, 1988, no, 3-6. trans. from Russian/.