Publications

Selected Published Work:

Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy.

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American Philosophical Association

Author-Meets-Critics

Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy

Critics:

Nader El-Bizri

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Bo Mou

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Sarah Pessin

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Therese Scarpelli Cory

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“Hegel and the Divinity of Light in Zoroastrianism and Islamic Phenomenology.” The Classical Bulletin, 83.2, 2007.

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“Is ‘Islamic’ Philosophy Islamic?” Voices of Islam, vol. 5, Praeger, 2007.

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“The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and the Imaginal World.” Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, Springer, 2006.

- Partial Persian translation by Rahim Qassemian for Hamshahry, 2007.

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“Islam, Liberalism, and Democracy.” Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 21, 2006.

“Interpreting Political Violence in Islamic Philosophy.” Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy 5, 2004.

- Translated into German by Michael Schemmerling for Polylog.

- Translated into Spanish by Mery Castillo-Amigo for Polylog.

“Unveiling the Hidden: On the Meditations of Descartes & Ghazzali.” The Passions of the Soul: A Dialogue Between Phenomenology and Islamic Philosophy, Kluwer, 2003.

“Hegel on Iran.” (Search "Hegel"), Encyclopedia Iranica, 2003.

“Who Is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra? Philosophy, Morality, & the Persians.” New Nietzsche Studies, 3.1&2, 1999.

Work in Progress:

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“The Primacy of Practice: Rorty and McDowell on Kant and Wittgenstein.”

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