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Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, On Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration. Kitāb dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ʿujb. Book XXIX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, translation with introduction and notes by Mohammed Rustom.

“White Death: Ibn ‘Arabi on the Trials and Virtues of Hunger and Fasting,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 141, no. 3 (2021): 577-586. – Atif Khalil

Abstract “The article presents an analysis of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 1240) treatment of fasting and hunger as it appears in chapters 106 and 107 ofal-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya (Meccan revelations). In the process of examining this very short section of the encyclopedic text, the essay both draws out the deeper theological significance of hunger and fasting and highlights […]

Review of Yousef Casewit’s “The Mystics of al Andalus” – Michele Petrone, Medieval Encounters 26 (2020)

Abstract : “Before being a work on the life and thought of Barrajān, the book of Y. Casewit is a modern introduction to the mystical movements that sprung up in al-Andalus, starting from the tenth century. In this review I will avoid giving a summary of the work, which is already provided in a thoughtful preface to […]

Review of The Pure Intention: On the Knowledge of the Unique Name by Ibn `Aṭā’ Allāh (trans. K. Williams; Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society) in JIMS 6, no. (2021): 108-114

Review of Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi’s Theory of wilaya and the Reenvisioning of the Sunni Caliphate by Aiyub Palmer in JIMS 5, no. 2 (2020): 88-93

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Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, On Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration. Kitāb dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ʿujb. Book XXIX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, translation with introduction and notes by Mohammed Rustom.

“White Death: Ibn ‘Arabi on the Trials and Virtues of Hunger and Fasting,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 141, no. 3 (2021): 577-586. – Atif Khalil

Review of Yousef Casewit’s “The Mystics of al Andalus” – Michele Petrone, Medieval Encounters 26 (2020)

Ibn al-‘Arabī: The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition

Editors’ Introduction to Mysticism and Ethics in Islam

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Review of The Pure Intention: On the Knowledge of the Unique Name by Ibn `Aṭā’ Allāh (trans. K. Williams; Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society) in JIMS 6, no. (2021): 108-114

Review of Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi’s Theory of wilaya and the Reenvisioning of the Sunni Caliphate by Aiyub Palmer in JIMS 5, no. 2 (2020): 88-93

THE TRANSCENDENT ETHICS OF TARBIYA: Ibrahim Niasse’s Maqāmāt al-dīn al-thalāth – Oludamini Ogunnaike

La crise de coeur – Mohammed Rustom