Publications by Gerhard Bowering
Books
A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville, d. 536/1141. Iḍāḥ al-ḥikma bi aḥkām al-ʿibra: Wisdom Deciphered, The Unseen Discovered, edited by Gerhard Bowering and Yousef Casewit, Brill: Leiden-Boston 2016.
Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction, Princeton University Press: Princeton 2015.
Negāh-e ʿErfānī beh vojūd (The Mystical Vision of Existence, translated into Persian by Saʿīd Karīmī), Nashr-e ʿElm: Tehran 2014.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (PEIPT), General Editor, Princeton University Press: Princeton 2013.
Seeking Solitude: A Short Sufi Guidebook (critical Arabic text edition and analysis of Khalwat al-ʿākifīn, coauthored with Bilal Orfali), Beirut: Dar el-Machreq 2013.
The Comfort of the Mystics: A Handbook and Anthology of Sufism (critical Arabic text edition and analysis, of Salwat al-ʿārifīn, coauthored by Gerhard Bowering and Bilal Orfali), Brill: Leiden 2012.
Sufi Inquiries and Interpretations of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021) and Ibn Nujayd’s Treatise of Islamic Traditions (Arabic text edition, introduction and notes; coauthored with Bilal Orfali), Beirut: Dar el-Machreq 2010.
Sufi Treatises of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021) (Arabic text edition, introduction, and notes; coauthored with Bilal Orfali), Beirut: Dar el-Machreq 2009.
The Minor Qurʾān Commentary of Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn as-Sulamī (d. 412/1021) (Arabic text edition, introduction, and notes), Beirut: Dar el-Machreq 1995; 2nd ed., Beirut 1997.
The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam: The Qurʾānic Hermeneutics of the Ṣūfī Sahl at-Tustarī (d. 283/896), Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, Vol. IX, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1980 [awarded ACLS Best Book Prize in the History of Religion, 1981].
Articles
“The Interpretation of the Arabic Letters in Early Sufism,” The Spirit and the Letter (ed. A. Keeler and S. Rizvi), Oxford 2016, pp. 87–124.
“Preliminary Observations on Islamic Ethics in the Chinese Context,” Ishraq Islamic Philosophy Yearbook VII, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences 2016, pp. 101–130.
“The Search for Truth: Ghazali in the Light of his Mysticism” (900 Jahre al-Ghazali im Spiegel der islamischen Wissenschaften, ed. Bülent Uçar), Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Osnabrück 2015, pp. 103–115.
“Sultan Bahoo, Sufi Mystic and Panjabi Poet,” Islamabad: Muslim Institute 2015.
“Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā on Sufi Seclusion,” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook V, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences 2014, pp. 268–291.
Articles in PEIPT (Princeton University Press, 2013): “Introduction to Islamic Political Thought,” pp. vii–xix; “Egypt,” pp. 147–148; “Muhammad,” pp. 367–375; “Qurʾan,” pp. 447–456; “Syria,” pp. 537–538.
“Predstavleniya o vremeni v islame,” Filosofiya i nauka v kultrakh vostoka i zapada (ed. M.T. Stepanyants), Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences 2013, pp. 301–311.
“Ibn al-ʾArabi’s Concept of Time,” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook III, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences 2012, pp. 108–123.
“Sulami’s Treatise on the Science of the Letters,” in B. Orfali (ed.), The Shadow of Arabic (Festschrift for Ramzi Baalbaki), Leiden: Brill 2011, pp. 339–397.
“Ḵānaqāh,” EIr, New York 2011, vol. 15, pp. 456–466.
“Names and Images of God in the Qurʾan,” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook II, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences 2010, pp. 268–283.
“Gott im Koran, Ursprung und Ziel islamischer Exegese: ein Ansatzpunkt zur Begegnung mit dem Islam,” Una Sancta Catholica et Apostolica: Einheit und Anspruch des Katholischen, Freiburg: Herder 2009, pp. 68–83.
“Recent Research on Constructing the Qurʾān,” in G.S. Reynolds (ed.), The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context, London: Routledge 2008, pp. 70–87.
“Two Early Sufi Manuscripts,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 31 (2006), pp. 209–231.
“Kubrā’s Treatise on Spiritual Retreat: Risāla fiʾl-khalwa,” al-Abhath 54 (2006), pp. 7–34.
“Time,” in EQ, Brill, Leiden 2005, vol. 5, pp. 278–290.
“Zeit: Islam,” in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, vol. 12, Basel: Schwabe 2004, pp. 1223–1224.
“The Origin of the Qurʾān as the Voice of God,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, vol. 147 (2004), pp. 347–353.
“Prayer,” in EQ, vol. 4, Brill, Leiden 2004, pp. 215–231.
“Hojviri,” in EIr, vol. 12 (2004), pp. 429–430.
“Ewigkeit und Augenblick: Dimensionen der Zeit im Islam,” in T. Schabert and M. Riedl (eds.), Das Ordnen der Zeit, Würzburg: Eranos, Königshausen & Neumann 2003, pp. 121–133.
“The Scriptural ‘Senses’ in Medieval Qurʾan Exegesis,” in J.D. McAuliffe (ed.), With Reverence to the Word, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 346–365.
“God and His Attributes,” in EQi, vol. 2, Brill, Leiden 2002, pp. 316–331.
“The Light Verse: Text and Ṣūfī Interpretation,” in Festschrift Franz Rosenthal, Oriens 36 (2001), pp. 113–144.
“Chronology in the Qurʾān,” in EQ, Brill, Leiden, vol. 1, pp. 315–335.
“Covenant,” EQ, Brill, Leiden, vol. 1, pp. 464–467.
“Isnād, Ambiguity, and the Qurʿān Commentary of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq,” in L. Clarke (ed.), Shiʿite Heritage, Binghamton 2001, pp. 63–73.
“Islamic Concepts of Time,” in E.D. Haidemenakis (ed.), The Sixth Olympiad of the Mind: The Next Communication Civilization, Hania: STEPS 2001, pp. 28–37.
“Ghazzālī, Abū Ḥāmed Moḥammad,” in EIr, vol. 10, pp. 358–363.
“Fūšanjī,” EIr, vol. 10, pp. 230–231.
“Ganj-e Šakar,” EIr, vol. 10, pp. 281–282.
“Dr. Anton Heinen (2. Juni 1939–1. April 1998),” ZDMG 2000, pp. 1–4.
“Ideas of Time in Persian Sufism,” in L. Lewisohn (ed.), The Heritage of Sufism: Volume I, Oxford 1999, pp. 199–234.
“A Historiographical Note on the Jawharat al-tawḥīd,” in M.H. Babu Sahib, The Tenets of Islam, Singapore 1999, pp. 15–28.
“Shiʿism,” in G. Bowersock, P. Brown and O. Grabar (eds.), Reference Book on Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1999, pp. 691–692.
“Early Sufism between Persecution and Heresy,” in F. de Jong and B. Radtke (eds.), Islamic Mysticism Contested, Leiden: Brill 1999, pp. 45–67.
“Ideas of Time in Persian Mysticism,” in R. Hovannisian and G. Sabagh (eds.), The Persian Presence in the Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998, pp. 172–198.
“Ensān-e Kāmel,” in EIr, vol. 8, pp. 457–461.
“ʿErfān,” in EIr, vol. 8, pp. 551–554.
“The Concept of Time in Islam,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 141 (1997), pp. 55–66.
“From the Word of God to the Vision of God,” in M.A. Amir-Moezzi (ed.), Le voyage initiatique en terre d’ Islam, Leuven: Peeters 1996, pp. 205–221.
“Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī,” in EI, vol. 9, pp. 811–812; French edition, vol. 9, pp. 76–77.
“Pāsukh-i Abū ʿAbd ur-Raḥmān al-Sulamī bah yak istifsār-i makkī (Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī’s Response to a Meccan Inquiry),” Maʿārif 12/3 (Tehran 1374/1996), pp. 30–44.
“Regles et rites,” in A. Popovic and G. Veinstein (eds.), Les ordres mystiques muslumans, Paris: Fayard 1996, pp. 139–156.
“The Major Sources of Sulamī’s Minor Qurʾān Commentary,” Oriens 35 (1996), pp. 35–56.
“Ḏuʾl-Nūn Meṣrī,” EIr, vol. 7 (1996), pp. 572–573.
“Deylamī, Šams-al-Dīn,” EIr, vol. 7 (1995), pp. 341–342.
“Sahl al-Tustarī,” EI, Vol. 7, pp. 840–841.
“Ḏekr,” EIr, vol. 7 (1995), pp. 229–233.
“Challenged by Islam,” Concilium 253 (1994), pp. 103–115; simultaneous publication in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch:
“Vom Islam herausgefordert,” Concilium 253 (1994), pp. 271–281
“Le christianisme mis au défi par l’ Islam,” Concilium 253 (1994) pp. 133–147
“El Reto del Islam,” Concilium 253 (1994), pp. 541–558
“Islam: Una sfida per el cristianesimo,” Concilium 253 (1994), pp. 537–556
“Uitgedaagd door de Islam,” Concilium 253 (1994), pp. 122–134.
“Jesuits and the Islamic World at the Beginning of a New Millennium,” Discovery 1994, pp. 1–17.
“The Qurʾān Is the Word Become Book,” Compass 12 (1994), p. 37.
“Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Concept of Time,” in A. Giese and J.C. Bürgel (eds.), Gott ist schön und Er liebt die Schönheit: God is beautiful and He loves beauty: Festschrift Annemarie Schimmel, Zurich: Lang 1994, pp. 71–91.
“Introduction to the Qurʾān,” in The Koran, Norwalk: Easton Press 1993, pp. 1–5.
“Ideas of Time in Persian Mysticism,” in L. Lewinsohn (ed.), Classical Persian Sufism: From Its Origins to Rumi, London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi 1993, pp. 199–233.
“Ideas of Time in Persian Mysticism,” Iran 30 (1992), pp. 77–89.
“Die Toleranz im Islam,” with R. Gramlich, A. Heinen, A. Roest Crollius, and C. Troll, in W. Kerber (ed.), Wie tolerant ist der Islam?, Munich: Kindt 1991, pp. 79–140.
“Der Islam im Aufbruch,” in W. Kerber (ed.), Wie tolerant ist der Islam?, Munich: Kindt 1991, pp. 13–27.
“Češtīya,” EIr, vol. 5, pp. 333–340.
“Sulamī’s Commentary on the Qurʾān,” in W.B. Hallaq and D.P. Little (eds.), Islamic Studies presented to Charles J. Adams, Leiden: Brill 1991, pp. 41–56.
“El despertar del Islam,” Selecciones de teología 30 (1991), pp. 135–138.
“Das Erwachen des Islam,” Stimmen der Zeit 209 (1991), pp. 33–40.
“Islam at the Crossroads,” Leap: A Forum for Religious Discussion at Yale 1 (1991), pp. 4–5.
“Sufi Hermeneutics in Medieval Islam,” REI 57 (1989), pp. 255–270.
“Foreword,” to M. Rodinson, Muḥammad, Norwalk: Easton Press 1989, pp. 3–7.
“Besṭāmī, Bāyazīd,” EIr, vol. 4, pp. 183–186.
“New Dynamism: The Spirit of Religious Revival Passes to Islam,” Compass 7/2 (1989), pp. 26–30.
“Baqāʾ-o-fanāʾ,” EIr, vol. 3, pp. 722–724.
“Ikbal: pjesnik izmedu indije i evrope,” Glasnik 51 (1988), pp. 396–405.
“The Ascetic Struggle and Mystic Prayer of a Central Asian Sufi,” Discussion Paper Series, Tokyo Sophia University, 3–14 (1987), pp. 1–39.
“Sufi Hermeneutics in Medieval Islam,” Discussion Paper Series, Tokyo Sophia University, 3–13 (1987), pp. 1–23.
“Mystical Circles and Colors in Kubrā’s Philosophical Kaleidoscope,” in G. Irfan (ed.), Beyond Conventional Constructs, Lahore: Maktaba Jadeed Press 1987, pp. 82–101.
“ʿAyn-al-Qoẓāt Hamadānī,” EIr, vol. 3, pp. 140–143.
“The Writings of Shams al-Dīn al-Daylamī,” Islamic Studies 26 (1987), pp. 231–236.
“al-Kalābādhī,” in ER, ed. M. Eliade, New York: Macmillan 1987, vol. 8, pp. 230–231.
“Miʿrāj,” ER, ed. M. Eliade, New York: Macmillan 1987, vol. 9, pp. 552–556.
“al-Shabistarī,” ER, ed. M. Eliade, New York: Macmillan 1987, vol. 13, pp. 194–195.
“Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī,” EI, vol. 5, pp. 546–547.
“ʿAlī Hamadānī,” EIr, vol. 1, pp. 862–864.
“Islam, Religion,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J.R. Strayer, New York: Macmillan 1985, vol. 6, pp. 574–588.
“Abū Saʿīd b. Abiʾl-Ḵayr,” EIr, vol. 1, pp. 377–380.
“Identity Problems of an Islamic Sect,” in Peter Gaeffke and David Utz (eds.), Identity and Division in Cults and Sects in South Asia, Philadelphia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies 1984, pp. 114–120.
“The Ādāb Literature of Classical Sufism: Anṣārī’s Code of Conduct,” in Barbara Daly Metcalf (ed.), Propriety and Authority: Sources of Moral Authority in South Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press 1984, pp. 62–87.
“ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangøhī,” EI, Supplement, pp. 312–313.
“The Islamic Case,” in Peter L. Berger (ed.), The Other Side of God, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday: New York 1981, pp. 131–153.
“Muhammad Iqbal: Poet and Philosopher between East and West,” South Asian Studies 4 (1979), pp. 1–16.
“Iqbal: Poet between India and Europe,” Islam and the Modern Age 9 (1978), pp. 57–70.
“Iqbal: A Bridge of Understanding between East and West,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 1 (1977), pp. 12–21.
“The Prophet of Islam: The First and the Last Prophet,” al-Islam 6 (1976), pp. 15–20, and The Message of the Prophet, Proceedings of the International Congress on Seerat 1976, Islamabad 1977, pp. 48–60.
Book Reviews
Der Koran, by Hartmut Bobzin (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2010, 825 pp.), in Zeitschrift der Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 2012.
Arabic, Islam and the Allah Lexicon: How Language Shapes our Conception of God, by John. A. Morrow (ed.) (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press 2006, pp. 340), in JSS 10 (2008), pp. 307–308.
Die Syro-Aramäische Lesart des Koran, by Christoph Luxenberg (Schiler, Berlin 2004, 351 pp.), in Oriens Christianus 89 (2005), pp. 292–296.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess. [Volumes I–VI. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991–1995. Vol. I (1991): Pp. xxxii + 456; Vol. II (1992): Pp. xi + 742; Vol. III (1992): Pp. xi + 508; Vol. IV (1995): Pp. xi + 1107; Vol. V (1993): Pp. x + 457; Vol. VI (1995): Pp. viii + 490], in JNES 61 (2002), pp. 55–57.
The Self-Disclosure or God: Principles of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Cosmology, by William Chittick (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. Pp. xl + 483), in JAOS 121 (2001), pp. 161–162.
Azīz Nasafī, by Lloyd V.J. Ridgeon (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press 1998, xiv + 234 pp.), in JRAS (forthcoming)
The Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism, by Bernd Radtke and John O’Kane (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press 1996, xi + 282 pp.), in IJMES 32 (2000), pp. 542–543.
Weltverzicht: Grundlagen und Weisen islamischer Askese, by Richard Gramlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1997, 461 pp.), in JAOS 120 (2000), pp. 276–277.
Der eine Gott: Grundzüge der Mystik des islamischen Monotheismus, by Richard Gramlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1998, 454 pp.), in JNES 61 (2002), pp. 57–58.
Alte Vorbilder des Sufitums, Ersterer Teil: Scheiche des Westens, by Richard Gramlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1995, 665 pp.), in JAOS 120 (2000), pp. 276–277.
Alte Vorbilder des Sufitums, Zweiter Teil: Scheiche des Ostens, by Richard Gramlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1996, 604 pp.), in JAOS 120 (2000), pp. 276–277.
Al-Māturīdī und die sunnitische Theologie in Samarkand, by Ulrich Rudolph (Leiden: Brill 1996, xii + 396 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 24 (1999), p. 437.
Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī: The Key to Salvation by M.A.K. Danner (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society 1996, xi + 269 pp.), in Parabola 1999 (forthcoming).
Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion, by Mary Louise Gude (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press 1996, xii + 283 pp.) in The Middle East Journal 53 (1999), p. 658.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band IV, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin-New York 1995; xi + 1107 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998), p. 320.
Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt, by Valerie J. Hoffman (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 1995, xix + 461 pp.), in The Middle East Journal 51 (1997), pp. 147–148.
Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims, by John Renard (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1996, xvi + 333 pp.), in Theological Studies 58 (1997), pp. 357–359.
Abu l-ʿAbbās b. ʿAṭāʾ: Sufi und Koranausleger, by Richard Gramlich (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 51/2, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1995; vii + 346 pp.), in JAOS 118 (1998), p. 146.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band VI, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin-New York 1995; viii + 490 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), p. 173.
Die Nahrung der Herzen, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien Band XVI-4, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1995; 268 pp.), in Orientalia 66 (1997), pp. 121–122, and in JAOS 118 (1998), pp. 145–146.
Die Nahrung der Herzen, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien Band XVI-3, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1995; 722 pp.), in Orientalia 66 (1997), pp. 121–122. and in JAOS 118 (1998), pp. 145–146.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band V, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1993; x + 457 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), pp. 80–81.
Die Nahrung der Herzen, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien Band XVI-2, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1994; 599 pp.), in Orientalia 66 (1997), pp. 121–122, and in JAOS 117 (1997), pp. 619–620.
Die Nahrung der Herzen, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien Band XVI-1, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1992; 556 pp.), in Orientalia 64 (1995), pp. 373–375, and in JAOS 115 (1995), pp. 555–556.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band III, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1992; xi + 508 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 20 (1994), p. 351.
Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts, by William C. Chittick (Albany: SUNY Press 1992; xv + 306 pp.), in MW 85 (1995), p. 177.
Schlaglichter über das Sufitum, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien, Band XIII, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1990; 676 pp.), JNES 54 (1995), p. 160.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Volume VII: MIF-NAZ (Edited by C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and the late Ch. Pellat. Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1993; pp. xvi + 1058), in MW 84 (1994), pp. 352–353.
Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center, by C.W. Ernst (Albany: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam SUNY Press 1992; xxii + 381 pp.), in JAOS 114 (1994), p. 521.
Principles of Sufism, by B.R. van Schlegell (Berkeley: Mizan Press 1993; xix + 366 pp.), in JNES 55 (1996), pp. 154–155.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band II, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1992; xi + 742 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 20 (1994), p. 163.
Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess (Band I, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1991; 456 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 19 (1993), p. 89.
A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Ṭāwūs and His Library by Etan Kohlberg (Leiden: Brill 1992; 470 pp.), in JAOS 114 (1994), pp. 286–287.
Un Océan sans rivage: Ibn Arabî, le livre et la loi, by Michel Chodkiewicz (Paris: du Seuil 1993), in Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques 1993.
Al-Ghazzālī’s Alchemy of Happiness, by Claud Field; revised and annotated by Elton L. Daniel (Armonk, New York & London, England: M.E. Sharpe 1991; 112 + xliii pp.), JNES 54 (1995), pp. 227–228.
Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University, by Adam Gacek (Montreal: McGill University Libraries 1991; xviii + 291 pp.), JAOS 113 (1993), p. 159.
Arabische Handschriften Teil II, by Gregor Schoeler (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1990; xviii + 451 pp. + 129 illustrations), in JAOS 113 (1993), pp. 132–133.
Woman’s Body, Woman’s Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing, by Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1991; xi + 206 pp.), in Speculum 68 (1993), pp. 1155–1156.
Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism, by Julian Baldick (New York and London: New York University Press 1989; 208 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 17 (1991), p. 272.
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations, edited by S.H. Nasr (World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, vol. 20, New York: Crossroad 1991; xxviii + 548 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 18 (1992), p. 159.
Bahāʾ-i Walad: Grundzüge seines Lebens und seiner Mystik, by Fritz Meier (AIr 27, Troisème Série: Textes et Mémoires, vol. 14, Leiden: Brill 1989; viii + 484 pp.), in JAOS 111 (1991), pp. 801–802, and in Religious Studies Review 17 (1991), p. 372.
La Doctrine d’ al-Ashʿarī, by Daniel Gimaret (Les Editions du Cerf: Paris 1990; 601 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 17 (1991), pp. 271–272.
A Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library, by Rudolf Mach and Eric L. Ormsby (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1987; 401 pp.), in JAOS 111 (1991), p. 197.
Al-Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj, by Naṣer Mūsā Dȧdal (Oikonomia series 17: Erlangen 1983, 414 + 98 pp.), in JAOS 111 (1991), pp. 196–197.
Les noms divins en Islam: Exégèse lexicographique et théologique, by Daniel Gimaret (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf 1988; 448 pp.), in IJMES 22 (1990), pp. 247–249.
Der Islam im Spiegel westlicher Theologie, by Klaus Hock (Köln-Wien: Böhlau Verlag 1986; 403 pp.), in MW 79 (1989), p. 261.
Das Sendschreiben Al-Qušayrīs über das Sufitum, by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien Band XII, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag 1989; 659 pp.), in Orientalia 58 (1989), pp. 569–572, and in JNES 53 (1994), pp. 66–67.
Islam und politischer Extremismus: Einführung, Dokumentation, by Khalid Duran (Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, Sondernummer 11 1985; 140 + 146 pp.), in Islamic Studies 28 (1989), p. 263.
Sufism and Sharīʿah: A Study of Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī’s Effort to Reform Sufism, by Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ḥaq Anṣārī (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation 1986; 368 pp.), in MW 78 (1988), p. 299.
Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies, by Richard C. Martin (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1985; 243 + xii pp.), in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (1988), p. 45.
Aḥmad Ghazzālī: Sawāniʿ: Inspiration from the World of the Spirits, translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1986, 127 pp.), in MW 78 (1988), p. 297.
Ibn ʿAbbād of Ronda: Letters on the Sūfī Path, translated by John Renard (New York: Paulist Press 1986. 238 = xviii pp.), in Middle East Journal 41 (1987), pp. 119–120, and in MW 77 (1987), p. 264.
Seelenwanderung in der islamischen Häresie, by Rainer Freitag (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, vol. 110; Berlin: Schwarz 1985; 289 pp.), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 21 (1987), pp. 89–90.
Khwān-i Pur Niʿmat (A Table Laden with Good Things), translated by Paul Jackson (Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delhi 1986; 174 + xx pp.), in Islam and the Modern Age 18 (1987), pp. 77–80.
Islam in Iran, by I.P. Petrushevsky (Albany: SUNY Press 1985; 400 pp.), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 21 (1987), p. 114.
Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazālī’s “Best of All Possible Worlds,” by Eric L. Ormsby (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1984; 309 + xv pp.), in The Catholic Historical Review 73 (1987), pp. 296–297.
Ibn ʿAṭāʾillāh and khwāja ʿAbdullāh Anṣārī, by V. Danner and W.M. Thackston (New York: Paulist Press 1978; 233 pp.), in Islamic Studies 25 (1986), pp. 100–101.
The Passion of al-Ḥallāj, by L. Massignon, translated by H. Mason (Bollingen Series 98, 4 vols.; Princeton: Princeton University Press 1982; vol. I: 645 + lxix pp.; vol. II: 493 + xii pp.; vol. III: 360 + xiv pp.; vol. IV: 294 + xviii pp.), in JAOS 106 (1986), pp. 377–378.
Christianity/Islam: Essays on Esoteric Ecumenism, by Frithjof Schuon (Bloomington: World Wisdom Books 1985; 270 + vii pp.), in Religious Studies Review 11 (1986), p. 11.
Western African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal, by Louis Brenner (Berkeley: University of California Press 1984; 215 + viii pp.), in Religious Studies Review 11 (1985), p. 313.
Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries (vol. 1: The Akbar Mission and Miscellaneous Studies), edited by Christian W. Troll (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House 1982; 231 + xxi pp.), in The Journal of Asian Studies 44 (1985), pp. 448–449.
Words of Ecstasy in Sufism, by Carl W. Ernst (Albany: State University of New York Press 1985; 184 + xi pp.), in The Middle East Journal 39 (1985), p. 869, and in Religious Studies Review 11 (1985), p. 311.
Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers, by Edward Booth, O.P. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought; Third series, vol. 20; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983; 314 + xxvi pp.), in JAOS 105 (1985), pp. 739–740, and in Religious Studies Review 11 (1985), p. 205.
A Concordance of the Qurʾān, by Hanna E. Kassis (Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press 1983; 1444 + xxxix pp.), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 19 (1985), pp. 106–107.
Islamic Theology and Philosophy, edited by Michael E. Marmura (Albany: SUNY Press 1984; 339 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 10 (1984), p. 408.
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, by William C. Chittick (Albany: SUNY Press 1983; 433 pp.), in The Middle East Journal 38 (1984), pp. 354–355, and in Religious Studies Review 10 (1984), p. 193.
In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power, by Daniel Pipes (New York: Basic Book 1983; 373 pp.), in America 150 (1984), pp. 55–57; and in Islamic Studies 25 (1986), pp. 337–339.
Steppe im Staubkorn: Texte aus der Urdu Dichtung Muhammad Iqbals, by J. Cristoph Bürgel (Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag 1982; 194 pp.), in Annual of Urdu Studies 3 (1983), pp. 112–115, and in Islamic Studies 25 (1986), pp. 97–99.
Saint John of the Cross and Islam, by Miguel Asin Palacios, translated by Howard W. Yoder and Elmer H. Douglas (New York: Vantage Press 1981; 94 + x pp.), in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 20 (1983), pp. 137–138.
The Path of God’s Bondsmen from Origin to Return, by Hamid Algar (Persian Heritage Series, 35; Delmar: Caravan Books 1982; 531 + xi pp.), in Religious Studies Review 9 (1983), p. 290.
Journey to the Lord of Power, by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, translated by Rabia Terri Harris (New York: Inner Traditions 1980; 116 pp.), in The Middle East Journal 36 (1982), pp. 105–107.
The Unveiling of Love, by Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak, translated by Muhtar Holland (New York: Inner Traditions 1981; 201 pp.), in The Middle East Journal 36 (1982), pp. 105–107.
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ʿArabi, by Henry Corbin, translated by Ralph Manheim (Bollingen Series XCI; Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981; 406 pp.), in The Middle East Journal 36 (1982), pp. 105–107.
Die Mythen des Koran, by Walter Beltz (Düsseldorf: Claassen 1980; 315 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 8 (1982), p. 91.
Das ramaḍān-Fasten, by Klaus Lech (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1979; 352 pp.), in Religious Studies Review 7 (1981), pp. 268–269.
Sufi Essays, by S.H. Nasr (New York: Schocken 1977; 184 pp.), in World Mission 29 (1978), fasc. 2, pp. 58–59.