Publications
Books
Mullā Ṣadrā and the Later Islamic Philosophical Tradition, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, contracted, delivery spring 2011, forthcoming
Roots of a Discord: Conflict and Diversity in Islam from the Classical to the Modern Period, New Haven: Yale University Press, contracted, delivery spring 2012, forthcoming
What has Najaf to do with Baghdad? Shiʿi Politics in the New Iraq, London: Hurst & Co., pre-contract discussion, delivery summer 2011, forthcoming
ed. of
Studies on the Ismāʿīlīs, London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, contracted, delivery spring 2011, forthcoming
with Annabel Keeler (eds),
Esotericism and the Text: Qurʾanic Exegesis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, contracted, delivery autumn 2010, forthcoming
ed. of
Shiʿism in the Gulf: History, Culture, Memory and Politics, London: Hurst & Co., delivery autumn 2010, forthcoming
Mīr Dāmād, Makers of the Muslim World, Oxford: Oneworld, contracted, delivery spring 2010, forthcoming
Mullā Ṣadrā and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being, London: Routledge, 2009.
An Anthology of Qurʾanic Commentaries, with Feras Hamza, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī: His Life, Works and the Sources for Safavid Philosophy, JSS Supplements 18, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007
Critical Editions
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Tabrīzī,
al-Bawāriq al-nūriyya, Tehran: Mīrāth-i maktūb, delivery summer 2012, forthcoming
Jāmī,
Tafsīr al-Fātiḥa, Journal of Qurʾanic Studies, delivery spring 2012, forthcoming
Qāḍī Saʿīḍ Qummī,
Taʿlīqāt ʿalā l-Ūthūlujiyā, Tehran: Mīrāth-i maktūb, delivery Christmas 2012, forthcoming
Chapters in Collected Volumes
‘
Walāya: sanctity and authority in Shiʿi Philosophy’, in G. Mizkinzoda, M.A. Amir-Moezzi and F. Daftary (eds),
The Study of Shiʿi Islam, London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, commissioned, delivery autumn 2010, forthcoming
‘To be a believer in the face of tribulations: The Shiʿi Sufi hermeneutics of Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’, in A. Keeler and S. Rizvi (eds),
Esotericism and the Text: Qurʾanic Exegesis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
‘The Daʿwa Party and Shiʿi politics in the Gulf’, in S. Rizvi (ed),
Shiʿism in the Gulf: History, Culture, Memory and Politics, London: Hurst & Co., forthcoming
‘Debating Shiʿi Philosophy in Qum’, in A. Lalani (ed),
Shiʿi Tradition of Islam: Essence and Expressions, London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, commissioned and delivered, forthcoming
‘Sayyid Niʿmatullāh al-Jazāʾirī and his (literary) Anthologies’, in R. Gleave (ed),
Festschrift for Paul Auchterlonie, Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, delivered, 2010, forthcoming
‘Oneself as the saved other’, in M.H. Khalil (ed),
Islam, Salvation and the Fate of Others, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
‘Mullā Ṣadrā’s noetics’, in M. Sebti (ed),
Noétique et théorie de la connaissance dans la philosophie arabo-musulmane des IXe à XVIIe siècles, Paris: Vrin, 2010, forthcoming
‘Violence and the other: contextualising
takfīr’, in Z. Kazmi and J. Deol (eds),
Contextualising Jihad, London/New York: Hurst & Co/Columbia University Press, 2010, forthcoming
‘Mullā Hādī Sabzavārī and the school of Mullā Ṣadrā’, in S. Mervin & D. Hermann (eds),
Shiʿism in Modern Times (1800-1925), Beirut/Frankfurt: Deutsches Orientinstitut, 2010, pp. 71–110
‘Mīr Dāmād and the debate on
ḥudūth dahrī in India’, in D. Hermann and F. Speziale (eds),
Islam in the Indo-Iranian World in the Modern Epoch, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2010, pp. 249–73
with Oliver Leaman, ‘The Developed Kalam tradition’, in T.J.Winter (ed),
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 77–96
‘Ibn ʿArabī’, in A. Rippin (ed),
The Islamic World, London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 363–73
‘Au-dela du miroir: Mullā Ṣadrā’s pedagogical epistemology’, in D. De Smet and M. Sebti (eds),
Miroir et savoir. La transmission d'un thème platonicien des Alexandrins à la philosophie arabo-musulmane, Leuven: Peeters, 2008, pp. 251–71
‘Neoplatonism Revived in the Light of the Imams: Qāḍī Saʿīd Qummī (d. 1696) and his reception of the
Theologia Aristotelis’, in P. Adamson (ed),
Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception, London: The Warburg Institute, 2007, pp. 176–208
‘A Sufi Philosophy fit for a Shiʿi King’, in A. Shihadeh (ed),
Sufism and Theology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, pp. 83–98
with Fanar Haddad, ‘Fitting Baghdad in’, in G.Stansfield and R.Visser (eds),
An Iraq of its Regions, London: Hurst & Co., 2007, pp. 51–74.
‘Ibn ʿArabī and Mullā Ṣadrā: Mysticism and philosophy in later Islamic Philosophy’, in P. Adamson and R. Taylor (eds),
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 224–46
‘Being and Sanctity: two poles of intellectual and mystical inquiry in Qajar Iran’, in R. Gleave (ed),
Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 113–26
‘Process Metaphysics in Islam? Avicenna and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī on intensification of being’, in D. Reisman and A. al-Rahim (eds),
Before and After Avicenna, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003, pp. 233–48
‘Essential Accidents, Syllogisms and the Possibility of Knowledge: Mullā Ṣadrā’s definition of metaphysics’, in S.M.Khamenei (ed),
Mulla Sadra and Comparative Studies, Tehran: SIPRIn, 2002, pp. 307–32
Journal Articles
‘Only the Imam knows best: debates between the Sadrian tradition and the
maktab-i tafkīk on the legitimacy of philosophy’,
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, under review
‘Communicating Pure Consciousness Events: Using Izutsu to address a Problem in the Philosophy of Mysticism’,
Philosophy East and West, under review
‘Re-centering Foundationalist Ethics? John Rist on Platonism and Real Ethics’,
Journal of Religious Ethics, under review
‘Sayyid Niʿmat Allāh al-Jazāʾirī and his Anthologies: Anti-Sufism, Shiʿism and Jokes in the Safavid World’,
Die Welts des Islams, under review
‘
Ḥikmah mutaʿāliyah in Qajar Iran: Locating Mullā Hādī Sabzavārī (d. 1289/1873) and the School of Mullā Ṣadrā’,
Iranian Studies, accepted, forthcoming
‘Shiʿi religious institutions and political mobilisation in Iraq’,
International Affairs, accepted, forthcoming
‘Shiʿism in Bahrain:
marjaʿiyya and politics’,
Orient IV (2009), pp. 16–24
‘Shiʿi threat, Shiʿi challenge’,
Shia Affairs, 2 (2009)
‘Between Time and Eternity: Mīr Dāmād on God’s Creative Agency’,
Journal of Islamic Studies, 17, 2 (2006), pp. 158–76
‘The Existential Breath of al-Raḥmān and the Munificent Grace of al-Raḥīm: The tafsīr sūrat al-Fātiḥa of Jāmī and the school of Ibn ʿArabī’,
Journal of Qurʾanic Studies, 8, 1 (2006), pp. 58–87
‘Time and Creation in Some Safavid Philosophies’,
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 62, 2 (2006), pp. 713–37
‘Towards a Typology of Philosophical Inquiry in the Ithnā ʿAshariyy Tradition’,
International Journal of Shiʿi Studies, 4, 1 (2006), pp. 189–206
‘Mullā Ṣadrā and Causation: Rethinking a Problem in later Islamic philosophy’,
Philosophy East and West, 55 (2005), pp. 570–83
‘A primordial
e pluribus unum: Modern Muslim discourses on religious pluralism’,
Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 6 (2004), pp. 21–42
‘A treatise attributed to Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn on the Ultimate Reality’,
Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society, 25 (2004), pp. 1–24
‘The Soteriology of Wilāya: early
tashayyuʿ and Mullā Ṣadrā’,
International Journal of Shiʿi Studies, 1 (2003), pp. 157-76
‘Reconsidering the life of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī: notes towards an intellectual biography,
Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 40, 2002, pp. 181–202
‘The existence-essence distinction in the philosophies of Avicenna and Suhrawardī’,
Studia Iranica, 29 (2000), pp. 61–108
Encyclopaedia Entries
‘Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’, ‘Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī’, and ‘Mīr Dāmād’, for the
Princeton Encyclopaedia of Islamic Political Thought, eds. G. Bowering, P. Crone et al, submitted, forthcoming
‘Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq’, ‘Mīr Dāmād’, ‘Mullā Ṣadrā’, ‘Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’, ‘Shāh ʿAbbās I’, ‘Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrwardī’, ‘ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī’, and ‘al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī’,
I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, ed. M. Shah, delivery date November 2010, forthcoming
‘Ashkiwarī, Quṭb al-Dīn’,
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3
rd edition, forthcoming
‘Mulla Sadra Shirazi’,
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, available at http:/plato.stanford.edu/entries/mulla-sadra/
Twenty entries on Islamic philosophy and theology in I. Netton (ed),
Encyclopaedia of Islamic Civilisation and Religion, London: Routledge, 2008
‘Isfahan, school of’, ‘Molla Sadra’, ‘Qadi Saʿid Qommi’, ‘Mir Findiriski’,
Encyclopaedia Iranica