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Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sehlikoglu, S., Caron, J., & Polat, A. (online). Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’. History and Anthropology, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approac... Read More about Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’.

Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (online). Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence. History and Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence.

What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M. (2024). What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach. Religiographies, 3(1), 56-74

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, different interpretations of Zoroastrianism began to emerge among the Parsis of India. Some of these interpretations were based on ideas that Parsis defined as “esoteric.” This article examines the part... Read More about What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach.

Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2021). Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11, 443-461. https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.11.22

The outbreak and Balkan and Anatolian trajectories of the rebellions of Borkluce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin in 1416 still pose a series of religio-historic problems which still do not allow a satisfactory and detailed reconstruction of their chrono... Read More about Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.

Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections (2020)
Book Chapter
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2020). Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections. In M. Klar (Ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010456-12

This article deals with a feature of the Qur’an’s style which I identified and named ‘Suspension of composition patterns’. Richard Bell had commented on Qur’an 2:238-39, a passage on prayer, which he thought had no connection with the preceding mater... Read More about Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.

The Islamic Theology of Interfaith Marriages between Theology, Law and Individual Ijtihad (2020)
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Abdelnour, M. G. (2020). The Islamic Theology of Interfaith Marriages between Theology, Law and Individual Ijtihad

There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of revisiting the question of interfaith marriages in Islamic thought. Hence, this paper attempts to illustrate the Islamic theology of interfaith marriages in general, with particu... Read More about The Islamic Theology of Interfaith Marriages between Theology, Law and Individual Ijtihad.

Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad (2020)
Journal Article
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2020). Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22(2), 60-85. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0425

Mary is a very important figure in the Qur'an, in which she is mentioned by name 34 times. In addition to passing references, such as in Q. 23:50 and Q. 66:12, two important Qur'anic pericopes are devoted to her: Q. 3:33–50 and Q. 19:16–36. Over and... Read More about Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad.

The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates (2020)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2020). The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates. In S. Ferrari, & A. Benzo (Eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean (25-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569109-3

Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus (2019)
Journal Article
Blatherwick, H. (in press). Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus. Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 66(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341519

The story of the Annunciation to Mary and the birth of Jesus in the Qurʾān and the Bible has been the subject of several recent literary studies that bring up the use of textual silences, and the significance of speech and speechlessness as themes in... Read More about Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus.

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.

Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy (2019)
Journal Article
Shihadeh, A. (in press). Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy. Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 7(1), 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1163/2212943X-00701004

Avicenna’s Neoplatonic account of divine providence and theodicy was hugely influential on later philosophical and religious thought in the Islamic world. However, it was severely criticised by one of his earlier commentators, the theologian-philosop... Read More about Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy.

Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought (2018)
Journal Article
Mustafa, S. (in press). Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0251

Tanzīh (transcendence) and tashbīh (anthropomorphism). Within early and classical theological thought, debates and arguments concerning notions of tanzīh (transcendence) and tashbīh (anthropomorphism) had a significant impact on the genesis of ration... Read More about Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought.