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.

New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M., Piraino, F., & Vevaina, Y. S.-D. (2024). New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism. Religiographies, 3(1), 2-7

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.

Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation (2016)
Book Chapter
Shihadeh, A. (2016). Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation. In S. Schmidtke (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology (384-407). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.007

This article offers a new interpretation of the debate on the nature of ethical value in the developed kalām tradition. After situating the problem in the broad context of theodicy, it proposes to revise the reading, conventional since George Hourani... Read More about Theories of Ethical Value in Kalam: A New Interpretation.

Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1 (2013)
Other
(2013). Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1. Cambridge

When Gerald Cipriani invited me to be the guest editor of this special issue on “Dialogue and Religion,” my first thought was to make a safe bet and involve some of the many scholars who engage in interreligious dialogue. I took, however, the risky d... Read More about Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1.

Philosophie: III. Islam (2009)
Book Chapter
Hartung, J.-P. (2009). Philosophie: III. Islam. In F. E. A. Jäger (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit (1121-1125). Metzler

Wahhābīs and Anti-Wahhābīs: The Learned Discourse on Sufism in Contemporary South Asia (2008)
Book Chapter
Hartung, J.-P. (2008). Wahhābīs and Anti-Wahhābīs: The Learned Discourse on Sufism in Contemporary South Asia. In S. C. Lassen, & H. van Skyhawk (Eds.), Sufi Traditions and New Departures. Recent Scholarship on Continuity and Change in South Asian Sufism (82-110). Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations

The Existence of God (2008)
Book Chapter
Shihadeh, A. (2008). The Existence of God. In T. Winter (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (197-217). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521780582.011

Sufism and Theology (2007)
Book
Shihadeh, A. (Ed.). (2007). Sufism and Theology. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748626052.001.0001

Sufism and theology are two major currents in Islamic thought and religious culture, and over the centuries they have displayed immense diversity and intellectual richness. This book takes a flexible and inclusive approach to these trends, revealing... Read More about Sufism and Theology.

Najm al-Din al-Tufi: Dar’ al-qawl al-qabih bi-l-tahsin wa-l-taqbih (Critical edition and study) (2005)
Book
Shihadeh, A. (Ed.). (2005). Najm al-Din al-Tufi: Dar’ al-qawl al-qabih bi-l-tahsin wa-l-taqbih (Critical edition and study). King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies