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
- ‘Greatness of spirit in the Arabic tradition’, in S. Vasalou, ed., The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- ‘Virtue, human and divine’, Renovatio, 2 (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)
- ‘Ibn Taymiyya’s ethics between Ash‛arite voluntarism and Mu‛tazilite rationalism: a middle road?’, in Lukas Muehlethaler and Gregor Schwarb, eds., Theological Rationalism in Medieval Islam: New Sources and Perspectives (Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming)
- ‘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)
See also Translations.
