Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus (2019)
Journal Article
Blatherwick, H. (2019). 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. (2019). 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.