Books & Essays

Books

Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
(Ed.) The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
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)
(Ed.) Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012)
Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu‛tazilite Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)

Translations

(With James E. Montgomery) Al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh, The Philosopher Responds (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming)
Ismail Fahd Ismail, The Old Woman and the River (Northampton: Interlink, forthcoming)

Articles and book chapters

“Admiration, Emulation, and the Description of Character,” Journal of Aesthetic Education (forthcoming)
“Humility in the Islamic Tradition,” in M. Alfano, M. Lynch, and A. Tanesini, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming)
“Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition,” in S. Vasalou, ed., The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
“To See the World for the First Time,” Renovatio, 3:1 (2019)
“Virtue, Human and Divine,” Renovatio, 2:1 (2018)
“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)
“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)
“'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)
“The Expression of Wonderment,” Philosophical Investigations, 30 (2007)
“I‛jâz,” in K. Versteegh et al., ed., Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill, 2006), vol. 2.
“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)