Hussain Al Mutawaa, I Dream of Being a Concrete Mixer (Markham, ON: Bookland Press, 2020)
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.
“Ethics as Medicine: Moral Therapy, Moral Expertise, and Practical Reasoning in al-Ghazālī’s Ethics.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (forthcoming) (PDF)
“Does al-Ghazālī Have a Theory of Virtue?” In Bilal Orfali, Mohammed Rustom, and Atif Khalil, eds., Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, forthcoming) (PDF)
“Virtue and the Law in al-Ghazālī’s Ethics.” In Sebastian Günther and Yassir El Jamouhi, eds., Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse: Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming) (PDF)
“Philosophical Arguments and the Experience of Cosmic Wonder.” In Anders Schinkel, ed., Wonder, Education, and Human Flourishing (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2020) (PDF)
“Admiration, Emulation, and the Description of Character.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 54 (2020) (PDF)
“Humility in the Islamic Tradition.” In Mark Alfano, Michael Lynch, and Alexandra Tanesini, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) (PDF)
“Counting the Minutes: Productivity and the Well-Lived Day between Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Benjamin Franklin.” Renovatio 3.2 (2019) (online here)
“Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition.” In Sophia 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 Lukas Muehlethaler, Gregor Schwarb, and Sabine Schmidtke, 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 Sophia 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 Kees Versteegh et al., eds., 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
Sandra Shapshay, Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2019), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2019)
Linda T. Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017), in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21 (2018)
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)
Helen de Cruz and Johan de Smedt, A Natural History of Natural Theology (MIT Press, 2015), inReligious Studies, 52 (2016)
Christian F. Miller, Character and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2014), in Dialogue, 55 (2016)
Kenan Malik, The Quest for A Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (Atlantic Books, 2014), in Times Higher Education (July 2014)