Publications
Books
Ibn Taymiyya (London: Oneworld, 2019) [Blackwell's Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com] Arabic translation, Ibn Taymiyya: Ḥayatuhu wa fikruhu, trans. ʿAmr Basyūnī (Beirut: Dār al-rawāfid; Algiers and Oran: Dār Ibn al-Nadīm, 2020). [neelwafurat.com] Review: MIDEO
Editor, with Douglas Pratt, John Davies and John Chesworth, The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas (Leiden: Brill, 2015). [Introduction]
Editor, Hiwār al-haqīqa min ajl al-hayāt ma‘an / Dialogue of Truth for Life Together, vol. 2 (Beirut: NEST Publications, 2008).
Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (Leiden: Brill, 2007). [Open access] Arabic Translation, Naẓariyyat al-ʿadl al-ilāhī ʿind Ibn Taymiyya, trans. Muḥammad Khiḍr (Beirut: Markaz Namāʾ, 2022). Reviews: Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Mamluk Studies Review,
Articles and Book Chapters:
"God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Ašʿarī Incorporealism," Arabica 69 (2022): 626-674. [Open access]. Arabic translation: Yasser Alnaimi, "ʿUluw al-ilāh wa taḥayyuzuhu: ‘aqlāniyyat radd Ibn Taymiyya ʿalā al-nafy al-Ashʿarī li-l-jismiyya ʿind Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī." Namāʾ 7.2 (2023): 190-236. [Open access].
"Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel’s Relation to the Torah," Entangled Religions 13.2 (2022), 1-15. [Open access]. Arabic translation: Muḥammad Iyād ʿAṭṭūn, ‘Al-Sharīʿa wa-l-ʿadl wa-l-faḍl: Ibn Taymiyya (tāʾ 728 hāʾ/1328 mīm) wa ʿalāqat al-Injīl bi-l-Tawrāh’. Namāʾ 7.4 (2023): 226-249. [Open access].
"The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Time and Creation," in Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time, ed. Marcus Schmücker, Michael Thomas Williams, and Florian Fischer (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), 89-103. [link to publisher's online version]
"Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the nonliteral reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s attributes," in Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West, ed. Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 195-230. [link to publisher's online version]
"Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism," in Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World , ed. Peter Adamson (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019), 145–168. [link to publisher's online version]
“Reason and the Proof Value of Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s late kalām works Taʾsīs al-taqdīs, Maʿālim uṣūl al-dīn, and al-Arbaʿīn fī uṣūl al-dīn,” in Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie, Band I: Die klassische Periode, ed. Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth, Reza Hajatpour, and Mohammed Abdel Rahem (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), 373–390. [pdf]
“What would Ibn Taymiyyah make of intertextual study of the Qur'an? The challenge of the isrāʾīliyyāt," in The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins, ed. Holger M. Zellentin (London: Routledge, 2019), 25-30. [Green open access]
"Ibn Taymiyya’s Use of Ibn Rushd to Refute the Incorporealism of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi," in Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century, ed. Abdelkader al-Ghouz (Bonn University Press/V&R unipress, 2018), 469-491. [Green open access] Arabic translation: Youssef Madrari, “Istidʿāʾ Ibn Taymiyya li-Ibn Rushd fī naqdihi li-nafy ṣifat al-jismiyya ʿind Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī,” Tabayyun 38 (November 2021): 169-190. [Open access]
"Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya's Legitimisation of Violence with His Vision of Universal Salvation," in Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism, ed. Robert Gleave and Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 107-116. [Green open access]
With Marwan Abu Ghazaleh Mahajneh. “Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya’s Fatwa Permitting Theology and Its Reception into His Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Darʾ Taʿāruḍ Al-ʿAql Wa l-Naql).” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 40-86. [Open access]
"Early and medieval Muslim attitudes towards Christian doctrines," in The Routledge Handbook of Christian-Muslim Relations, ed. David Thomas (London: Routledge, 2018), 168-175. [Green open access]
Review of Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 45 (2018): 389-395. [pdf]
“Ibn Taymiyya between Moderation and Radicalism,” in Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage, ed. Elisabeth Kendall and Ahmad Khan (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), 177–203. [Green open access]
“Ḥanbalī Theology,” in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, ed. Sabine Schmidtke (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), 625-646. Also available in Oxford Handbooks Online. [link] [Green open access]
“Withholding Judgment on Islamic Universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the Duration and Purpose of Hell-Fire,” in Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions, ed. Christian Lange (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 208-237. [Open access]
"Murtaza Mutahhari’s Solution to the Problem of Evil," Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 36 (2015): 162-170. [Open access]
"A Muslim Conflict over Universal Salvation," in Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular, ed. Hannah Bacon, Wendy Dossett, and Steve Knowles (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 160-171. [pdf]
“Muslim-Christian Relations and Peacemaking in the Arab World,” in (un)Common Sounds: Songs of Peace and Reconciliation among Muslims and Christians, ed. Roberta R. King and Sooi-Ling Tan (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014), 51-70. [corrected version]
“Against Islamic Universalism: ʿAlī al-Ḥarbi’s 1990 Attempt to Prove that Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Affirm the Eternity of Hell-Fire,” in Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, ed. Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), 377-399. [pdf]
"Ibn Taymiyya," in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Vol. 4 (1200-1350), ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett (Leiden: Brill 2012), 824-878. [pdf]
"Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya," in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Vol. 4 (1200-1350), ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett (Leiden: Brill 2012), 989-1002. [pdf]
"Ibn al-Ḥājj al-ʿAbdarī," in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Vol. 4 (1200-1350), ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett (Leiden: Brill 2012), 893-896. [pdf]
"God's Wise Purposes in Creating Iblīs: Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Theodicy of God’s Names and Attributes," in A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah, ed. Caterina Bori and Livnat Holtzman, Oriente Moderno monograph series, 90.1 (2010): 113-134. [pdf]
“The Apologetic and Pastoral Intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Polemic against Jews and Christians,” The Muslim World 100.4 (2010), 471-484. [Open access]
“God Acts by His Will and Power: Ibn Taymiyya’s Theology of a Personal God in his Treatise on the Voluntary Attributes,” in Ibn Taymiyya and His Times, ed. Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010), 55-77. [pdf] Arabic translation as “Al-Ṣifāt al-ikhtiyāriyya (الصفات الاختيارية),” in Ibn Taymiyya wa ʿasrihi (ابن تيمية وعصره), ed. Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed, and trans. Mahammed Bouabdallah (Beirut: Arabic Network for Research and Publishing, 2018), 75-98.
“The Lord's Prayer: A Mennonite View,” in On Spirituality: Essays from the third Shi'i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue, ed. M. Darrol Bryant, Susan Kennel Harrison, and A. James Reimer (Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2010), 99-114. [pdf]
“A Common Word: ‘More positive and open, yet mainstream and orthodox’,” Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 30.1 (April 2009), 50-77. [Open access]
“Islamic Universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Salafī Deliberations on the Duration of Hell-Fire,” The Muslim World 99.1 (Jan. 2009), 181-201. [Open access]
“Islamic Monotheism and the Trinity,” The Conrad Grebel Review 27.1 (Winter 2009), 57-82. [Publisher's corrected version, alternate download]. Turkish translation: "İslâmî Monoteizm ve Teslîs," Oksident 1.1 (2019): 117-143. [Open access]
“Writing the Resistance: Recent Books on Hizbullah from Lebanese Perspectives,” Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 28.1 (April 2007), 47-69. [Open access]
“The Justice of God and the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Theodicy of Ibn Taymiyya,” Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 27.2 (November 2006), 53-75. [Open access]
“Ibn Taymiyya as an Avicennan Theologian: A Muslim Approach to God’s Self-Sufficiency,” Theological Review of the Near East School of Theology 27.1 (April 2006), 34-46.[Open access]
“An Anabaptist Perspective on Conversing with Muslims,” in Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk, ed. James R. Krabill, Walter Sawatsky and Charles E. Van Engen (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2006), 120-129, 287-288.
“Perpetual Creativity in the Perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya’s Hadith Commentary on God’s Creation of this World,” Journal of Islamic Studies 15.3 (Sept. 2004): 287-329. [Open access]
“Revelation and the Islamic and Christian Doctrines of God,” Islamochristiana 30 (2004): 1-14. French translation, “La révélation et les doctrines musulmane et chrétienne sur Dieu,” Chemins de Dialogue: Penser la foi dans l’esprit d’Assise 28 (2006): 167-190.
“A Typology of Responses to the Philosophical Problem of Evil in the Islamic and Christian Traditions,” The Conrad Grebel Review 21.3 (Fall 2003): 81-96. [Open access pdf and html]. In Arabic: “Al-istijābāt al-falsafiyya li-mushkilat al-sharr,” Qaḍāyā islāmiyya muʿāṣira: majalla muḥakkama mutakhaṣṣiṣa bi-falsafat al-dīn wa ʿilm al-kalām al-jadīd, 77-78 (1443-2022).