BOOKS
EDITED COLLECTIONS
TRANSLATIONS
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
For most of my articles, I've tried to upload the most up-to-date pre-publication document I have on file. For some articles, my archive proved too messy, so I gave myself a pass. Just drop me a line if you want an electronic copy of the published piece.
BOOK REVIEWS
See also Translations.
- Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Wonder: A Grammar (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015)
- Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu‛tazilite Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
EDITED COLLECTIONS
- Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012)
- The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
TRANSLATIONS
- (With James E. Montgomery) Al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh, The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century (New York: New York University Press, 2019)
- Ismail Fahd Ismail, The Old Woman and the River (Northampton: Interlink, 2019)
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
For most of my articles, I've tried to upload the most up-to-date pre-publication document I have on file. For some articles, my archive proved too messy, so I gave myself a pass. Just drop me a line if you want an electronic copy of the published piece.
- “Admiration, Emulation, and the Description of Character,” Journal of Aesthetic Education (forthcoming) (PDF)
- “Humility in the Islamic Tradition,” in M. Alfano, M. Lynch, and A. Tanesini, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming) (PDF)
- “Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition,” in S. Vasalou, ed., The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) (PDF)
- “To See the World for the First Time,” Renovatio, 3:1 (2019) (online here)
- “Virtue, Human and Divine,” Renovatio, 2:1 (2018) (online here)
- “Ibn Taymiyya’s Ethics Between Ash‛arite Voluntarism and Mu‛tazilite Rationalism: A Middle Road?” in L. Muehlethaler and G. Schwarb, eds., Theological Rationalism in Medieval Islam: New Sources and Perspectives (Leuven: Peeters, 2018)
- “Greatness of Spirit: A New Virtue for our Taxonomies?” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 56 (2017)
- “An Ancient Virtue and its Heirs: The Reception of Greatness of Soul in the Arabic Tradition,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 45 (2017) (PDF)
- “Wonder: Toward a Grammar,” in S. Vasalou, ed., Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012)
- “Educating Virtue as a Mastery of Language,” Journal of Ethics, 6 (2012) (PDF)
- “'Their Intention Was Shown in their Bodily Movements': The Basran Mu‛tazilites on the Institution of Language,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 47 (2009)
- ‘“The Mind as an Object of God’s Knowledge': Another Cartesian Temptation?”, Philosophical Investigations, 32 (2009)
- “Personal Identity as a Task,” Inquiry, 51 (2008)
- “Subject and Body in Basran Mu‛tazilism, or: Mu‛tazilite Kalâm and the Fear of Triviality,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 17 (2007) (PDF)
- “The Expression of Wonderment,” Philosophical Investigations, 30 (2007) (PDF)
- “I‛jâz,” in K. Versteegh et al., ed., Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill, 2006), vol. 2. (PDF)
- “Equal Before the Law: the Evilness of Human and Divine Lies; ‘Abd al-Jabbâr’s Rational Ethics,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 13 (2003)
- “The Miraculous Eloquence of the Qur’ân: General Trajectories and Individual Approaches,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 4 (2002)
BOOK REVIEWS
- Kenan Malik, The Quest for A Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (Atlantic Books, 2014), in Times Higher Education (July 2014)
- Helen de Cruz and Johan de Smedt, A Natural History of Natural Theology (MIT Press, 2015), in Religious Studies, 52 (2016)
- Christian F. Miller, Character and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2014), in Dialogue, 55 (2016)
- Joep Lameer, The Arabic Version of Ṭūsī’s Nasirean Ethics (Brill, 2015), in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138 (2018)
- Eric Dietrich, Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World (Columbia University Press, 2015), in British Journal of Aesthetics, 58 (2018)
- Linda T. Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017), in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21 (2018)
See also Translations.
