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.
- Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021)
- 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
- The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012)
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)
- 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.
- "The Place of Exemplars in Islamic Ethics." In Mustafa Shah, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- “Ethics as Medicine: Moral Therapy, Expertise, and Practical Reasoning in al-Ghazālī’s Ethics.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2021) (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, 2021) (PDF)
- “Virtue and the Law in al-Ghazālī’s Ethics.” In Sebastian Günther and Yassir El Jamouhi, eds., Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021) (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), in Religious 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)
See also Translations.
