Michael Sells
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- PhD History Princeton University
- Masters History Princeton University
- Bachelors History Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Anthony Sells is John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Michael Sells studies and teaches in the areas of Qur'anic studies, Sufism, Arabic and Islamic love poetry, mysticism , and religion and violence.
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Published Works
- The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (1996) (282)
- Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994) (235)
- The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy (2003) (94)
- The Clash of Definitions (2003) (59)
- Crosses of Blood: Sacred Space, Religion, and Violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina (2003) (53)
- Approaching the Qurʾan : the early revelations (1999) (47)
- The literature of al-Andalus (2000) (35)
- Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Quran, Miraj, poetic and theological writings (2002) (34)
- Ibn Arabi's polished mirror: perspective shift and meaning event (1988) (30)
- Early Islamic Mysticism (2004) (27)
- Religion, History, and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996) (24)
- The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique (2003) (18)
- Sound and Meaning in Sura t aL-Qāria (1993) (17)
- Europe and the Muslims: The Permanent Crusade? (2003) (17)
- Sound, spirit, and gender in Surat al-Qadr (1991) (17)
- Return to the Flash Rock Plain of Thahmad: Two Nasībs by Ibn al-˛Arabī (2008) (16)
- Lacan and Bion (1995) (16)
- Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (1989) (16)
- Introduction: constructing the Muslim enemy (2002) (15)
- Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazali's "Best of all Possible Worlds" (1988) (15)
- The Wiles of Women and Performative Intertextuality: 'a'Isha, the Hadith of the Slander, and the Sura of Yusuf (1999) (15)
- Qasida and the West: Self-Reflective Stereotype and Critical Encounter (1987) (14)
- Approaching the Quran: the early revelation (1999) (12)
- Apophasis in Plotinus: A Critical Approach (1985) (11)
- The Arabized Jews (2000) (10)
- The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of Post–Cold War World Order (2003) (9)
- Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy (2003) (9)
- Bewildered Tongue: The Semantics of Mystical Union in Islam (1989) (8)
- The Nationalist Serbian Intellectuals and Islam: Defining and Eliminating a Muslim Community (2003) (7)
- Ibn ʿArabī's Garden among the Flames: A Reevaluation (1984) (7)
- Visions of al-Andalus (2000) (7)
- Yugoslavia: The Former and the Future (1996) (6)
- Christ killer, Kremlin, contagion (2003) (5)
- Expectation of the Millennium, Shi'ism in History (1991) (5)
- Serbian religious nationalism, Christoslavism, and the genocide in Bosnia, 1992-1995 (1998) (5)
- Michael Scot and the translators (2000) (4)
- Journey to the Lord of Power (1986) (4)
- Voices of Resurgent Islam , edited by John L. Esposito. Pp. 294, selective glossary. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford1983. $11.95. (1984) (4)
- The infinity of desire: love, mystical union, and ethics in Sufism (2002) (4)
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1995) (4)
- Toward a multidimensional understanding of Islam : The poetic key (1996) (3)
- The Mu'allaqa of Tarafa (1986) (3)
- Islamic Spirituality: Foundations. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1989) (3)
- Literary Approach to the Hymnic Suras of the Qur'an: Spirit, Gender, and Aural Intertextuality (2000) (3)
- Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ and the Umayyad palace (2000) (3)
- Aḥbār and Ruhbān: Religious Leaders in the Qurʾān in Dialogue with Christian and Rabbinic Literature HOLGER M. ZELLENTIN (2016) (2)
- The Islamic and Western Worlds: “End of History” or the “Clash of Civilizations”? (2003) (2)
- Ibn Sina and mysticism: remarks and admonitions (1998) (2)
- The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography (2003) (2)
- Sacral Ruins in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Mapping Ethnoreligious Nationalism (2003) (2)
- Holocaust Abuse: The Case of Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husayni (2015) (2)
- Vuk's Knife: Kosovo, the Serbian Golgotha, and the Radicalization of Serbian Society (2000) (2)
- Guises of the Ghūl: Dissembling Simile and Semantic Overflow in the Classical Arabic Nasīb (2017) (2)
- Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo (2004) (2)
- Like the Arms of a Drowning Man: Simile and Symbol Worlds in the Naqa Sections of Bashama's Hajarta Umama (1994) (2)
- Desert Tracings: Six Classical Arabian Odes by Alqama, Shánfara, Labíd, ʿAntara, al-Aʿsha and Dhu al-Rúmma@@@Desert Tracings: Six Classical Arabian Odes by Alqama, Shanfara, Labid, Antara, al-Asha and Dhu al-Rumma (1991) (1)
- Balkan Islam and the Mythology of Kosovo (1999) (1)
- Banat Su'Ăd (1990) (1)
- The Wedding of Zein: Islam through the Modern Novel (2002) (1)
- Stations of desire: love elegies from Ibn Arabi and new poems (2000) (1)
- The Aljafería in Saragossa and Taifa spaces (2000) (1)
- Armageddon in Christian, Sunni, and Shia Traditions (2013) (1)
- Pseudo-Woman and the Meister:"Unsaying" and Essentialism (1994) (1)
- Poetries of the Norman courts (2000) (1)
- The history of football rewritten (2013) (0)
- Saudi Nationalism, Wahhabi Daʿwā, and Western Power (2021) (0)
- Islamic Spirituality: Foundations (1989) (0)
- Ibn al-'Arabi, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Al-Qushayri, Shahrastani (1995) (0)
- Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Al-Andalus (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazali's "Best of All Possible Worlds" Eric L. Ormsby (1988) (0)
- Sufism Toward the Year 1240 CE (1999) (0)
- Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual , Myth and Poetics Series (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993). Pp. 350. (1995) (0)
- Serbian religious mythology and the genocide in Bosnia (2001) (0)
- Guises of the Ghuk: Dissembling Simile and Semantic Overflow in the Early Arabic Nasib (1994) (0)
- From a History of Mysticism to a Theology of Mysticism (1993) (0)
- Ger Duijzings. Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000, xv+238 pp., $29.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 231 12098 2, $18.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 231 12099 0. (2004) (0)
- The Sign of Jonah: Transformations and Interpretations of the Jonah Story in the Qurʾān HANNELIES KOLOSKA (2016) (0)
- The dual heritage in Sicilian monuments (2000) (0)
- Mysticism and Emanation in the Writings of Meister Eckhardt (1994) (0)
- Preface: A Tribute to Eqbal Ahmad (2003) (0)
- The Nūniyya(poem in N)of Ibn Zaydūn (2000) (0)
- Bosnia: Some Religious Dimensions of Genocide (1994) (0)
- Banat Su ' ad : Translation and Interpretive (2017) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- Carl W. Ernst, Words of Ecstasy in Sufism, SUNY Series in Islam (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985). Pp. 191. (1987) (0)
- Love (an essay on love poetry in Islamic Andalus) (2000) (0)
- Preface: a word on Professor Mahmoud Ayoub (2004) (0)
- Idel, "Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions" (1995) (0)
- Book Review:Journey to the Lord of Power Ibn arabi, Rabia Terri Harris (1986) (0)
- Shanfara (Sixth Century), Arabic: Arabian Ode in L (1994) (0)
- Bosnia the Good: Tolerance and Tradition. By Rusmir Mahmutćehajić. Trans. Marina Bowder. New York: Central European University Press, 2000. 236 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $44.95, hard bound. $21.95, paper. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Ibn Sina and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions Shams C. Inati (1998) (0)
- Irremediable ecstasy, modes of the lyric in Etel Adnan's The Spring Flowers Own & Manifestations of the Voyage (2002) (0)
- “You’d Have Seen What Melts the Mind” – Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Poem No. 20 from the Turjumān al-Ashwāq (2007) (0)
- IV. Reflections on the Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnians Who Resisted It (2020) (0)
- Heart-Secret, Intimacy, and Awe in Formative Sufism (1998) (0)
- Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition , by R. S. O’Fahey. (Islam & Society in Africa.) 261 pages, indices, bibliography. Northwest University Press, Evanston, Illinois1990. $42.95/$17.95. (1992) (0)
- Along the Edge of Mirage: Translation and Interpretation of al-Mukhabbal as-Sa'di's Mufaddaliya, Dhakarta Rababa (1995) (0)
- “At the Red Rise” Muḥyī Al-Dīn Ibn Al-ʿARABī: Poem 57 from Turjumān Al-Ashwāq (Translation of Desires) (2014) (0)
- Longing, Belonging, and Pilgrimage in the Poetry of Ibn 'Arabi (1997) (0)
- Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers , by Edward Booth. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd series, vol. 20.) 314 pages, index, bibliography, appendix. Cambridge University Press, London and New York1984. $69.50/£35.00. (1985) (0)
- Richard C. Martin. lslam. Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, 1982. 192 pp., illustrations, index, bibliography, glossary $8.95 (1983) (0)
- Meister Eckhart and Ibn ‘Arabi on the Mysticism of Perpetual Transformation (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblis in Sufi Psychology Peter J. Awn (1985) (0)
- To al-Andalus Would She Return the Greeting: Ibn Zaydun's Nuniyya (Poem in N), Complete Translation (2000) (0)
- Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, by H.T. Norris. 304 pages, maps, plates, selected bibliography, index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0–87249-977–4 (1995) (0)
- Banat Su'ad: Translation and Interpretive Introduction (1990) (0)
- Mudejar Teruel and Spanish identity (2000) (0)
- Towards a Poetic Translation of Fusus al-Hikam: The Adam Chapter (1993) (0)
- Antara (b. 550) The Black Night (1998) (0)
- Dhikr (Memory, Remembrance) (1995) (0)
- At the Way Stations, Stay, Translation and Commentary on a Poem from Ibn 'Arabi's "Interpreter of Desires" (1995) (0)
- 'Christ Killer' Mythology and the Tragedy in the Balkans (1997) (0)
- Along the edge of mirage : the Mufaddaliyah of al-Mukhabbal as-Sadi, an interpretation (1993) (0)
- 5. Finhās of Medina: Islam, “The Jews,” and the Construction of Religious Militancy (2019) (0)
- Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth , by Stetkevych Jaroslav. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1996. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-253-33208-7 (1998) (0)
- Among the Mimics and the Parasites: V. S. Naipaul’s Islam (2003) (0)
- Qur'ānic Studies Today (2016) (0)
- Ibn 'Arabi's Ala Ya Hamamati l'Arakati wa l'Bani (Gentle Now, Doves) (1991) (0)
- The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation. By Francine Friedman. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. 288 pp. $69.25 cloth, $21.95 paper (1998) (0)
- Islam in Serbian religious mythology and its consequences (2002) (0)
- Four Poems Translated from Ibn 'Arabi's Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (Translation of Desires) (1998) (0)
- Semantics of Universality in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi (1987) (0)
- Bridge betrayed : religion and genocide in Bosnia (new preface) (1998) (0)
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