It is important to note that the Qur’an was never canonized—it was a canon, an authoritative text, from its inception. The concept of canonization is rooted in biblical tradition, yet Western academia continues to project it onto the Qur’an.

New open access book! (link below)

NOW AVAILABLE! For the first time ever, you can read the corpus of OHG poetry with facing-page English translations from Brian Murdoch. Visit: https://t.co/F6fqszwjoE

New on the website: "Al-Māturīdī on the Cause (sabab) and Human Action between Kalām and Uṣūl al-Fiqh". In Idris Nassery and Muna Tatari (eds.), Dynamics of Tradition: Islamic Theology and Law in Relation. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Looks like a great volume!

Vaccines don't cause autism. Tylenol doesn't cause autism. Immanuel Kant causes autism.

There’s a new edition of Tabari’s History, published in 20 volumes and edited by Bashar Awaf Maruf. I’m told the new edition has attended to the number of mistakes in the Leiden edition (from 1879) by the Leiden editor Michael Jan de Goeje.

A mammoth of a volume (45 chapters), the festschrift of Amir-Moezzi is here. I have a chapter consisting of two parts. First part deals with conceptions of God in early Islam (I look at Jafar al-Sadiq) and the second deals with Shii-Ashari debates On God

The works of Allama Hilli on logic & metaphysics 1. الجوهر النضيد في شرح منطق التجريد 2. القواعد الجلية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية 3. كشف الخفاء من كتاب الشفاء 4. مراصد التدقيق ومقاصد التحقيق 5. الأسرار الخفية في العلوم العقلية 6. إيضاح المقاصد عن حكمة العين 7. المحاكمات

missing the time when i used to obsessively read books in less than a day and not worry about a single thing in life.

The special issue of *The Monist* that I edited on "The Philosophy of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)" is now out! 3 of the 8 papers included in this issue are open access! @OUPPhilosophy https://t.co/LpS6w1CtcW

Dejanira (Autumn) by Gustave Moreau (1872-73)

“Man Who is Refusing to Control His Own Mind”, Alan Macdonald, 2021

From Grade 9 onwards, girls should be taught the fundamentals of family and inheritence laws. This will help girls understand their civil and legal rights, and will protet them against abusive marriages and exploitative parents and siblings. Monsters walk among us.

After six years in the making, this project is finally coming to a close. The volume will be published open access with Routledge, accompanied by chapter summary videos from each contributor on Blogging Theology. I just finished recording the introduction with @freemonotheist.

Hello Friends: Your daily reminder to Read: Hegel's "The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy;" Schelling's "System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)," Kant's "Critique of the Power of Judgment," and Leibniz's "New Essays on Human Understanding."

#OpenAccess Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements eds. Muhammad Afzal Upal, Carole M. Cusack. BRill 2021 PDF 🎯 https://t.co/lJ1skA7evZ https://t.co/ECmoh6jiPw

“Each of these classification rooms was decorated with an astonishing density of Disney paraphernalia.” New: Morley Musick visits Orlando to attend America’s largest prison conference. https://t.co/K5nofpbX69

#OpenAccess What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field eds. Leif Stenberg, Philip Wood. Edinburgh Univ Pr 2023 PDF 🎯 https://t.co/UA4WYYhMn0 https://t.co/mApmiu3pis

Philosophical Sufism An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-'Arabi Mukhtar H. Ali. Routledge 2021 #OpenAccess Front Matter & Introduction PDF 🎯 https://t.co/cLuW1AXre3 Preview PDF https://t.co/d55RiRF7Qk Author's Academia https://t.co/j6kYQSmWal