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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oliver Leaman is an American professor of philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic studies at the University of Kentucky, where he has been teaching since 2000. He specialized in the history of Islamic, Jewish, and Eastern philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1979.
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- The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy (2003) (132)
- History Of Islamic Philosophy (2001) (111)
- The Qurʾan : an encyclopedia (2006) (77)
- Averroes and his philosophy (1988) (66)
- An introduction to classical Islamic philosophy (1985) (65)
- An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (1985) (41)
- Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film (2001) (38)
- History of Jewish philosophy (1997) (37)
- A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy (1999) (36)
- Islamic Philosophy A–Z (2007) (35)
- Islam: The Key Concepts : Islam: The Key Concepts (2007) (34)
- Saadya and Jewish kalam (2003) (29)
- Sit on the sidelines and watch the boys play: Sex differentiation in physical education (1984) (28)
- Evil and suffering in Jewish philosophy (1995) (27)
- Does The Interpretation of Islamic Philosophy Rest on a Mistake? (1980) (27)
- Key concepts in Eastern philosophy (1999) (26)
- World Philosophies (1999) (26)
- Islamic Philosophy: An Introduction (1994) (22)
- Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought∗ (2003) (21)
- Athleticism and the reproduction of gender and ethnic marginality (1985) (21)
- Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction (2004) (21)
- Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari (2003) (20)
- Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought (2003) (19)
- Death and Loss: Compassionate Approaches in the Classroom (1995) (19)
- Maimonides and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism (2003) (18)
- Conservative tendencies in Gersonides’ religious philosophy (2003) (18)
- Cheating and fair play in sport. (2018) (16)
- Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism (2003) (16)
- Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives (1996) (14)
- Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (2007) (13)
- Controversies in Contemporary Islam (2013) (13)
- Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings (2000) (10)
- The Jewish philosophy reader (2000) (10)
- Ibn Rushd on happiness and philosophy (1980) (9)
- Ghazāli and the Ash'arites (1996) (8)
- Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (2006) (8)
- The biographical encyclopaedia of Islamic philosophy (2006) (7)
- The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy (2003) (7)
- Samson Raphael Hirsch (1997) (7)
- The Qurʾan : the basics (2007) (6)
- Averroes'Commentary on Plato's Republic, and the Missing Politics (1997) (6)
- Ghazäli and averroes on meaning (1996) (6)
- Sufism in an Age of Transition: 'Umar al-Suhrawardi and the Rise of the Islamic Mystical Brotherhoods (review) (2012) (5)
- Mir Damad and the Founding of the "School of Isfahan" (2013) (5)
- Islamic Philosophy and the Attack on Logic (2000) (5)
- Jewish Thought: An Introduction (2006) (4)
- Medieval Jewish political thought (2003) (4)
- Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides’ Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andalusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu (2012) (3)
- The Future of Philosophy: Towards the Twenty First Century (1998) (3)
- Ideals, Simplicity, and Ethics: The Maimonidean Approach (2002) (3)
- Judaism and Sufism (2003) (3)
- “Greek Philosophy: Impact on Islamic Philosophy” (2002) (3)
- The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy (2003) (3)
- Maimonides, imagination and the objectivity of prophecy (1988) (3)
- Maimonides’ Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal (2000) (3)
- Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction between Jewish and Islamic Thought and Literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, Dedicated to Professor Joel L. KraemerEdited by Y. Tzvi Langermann and Josef Stern (2011) (3)
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Who guards the guardians? (2006) (3)
- Ibn Miskawayh, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Truly Happy Sage (2020) (3)
- Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy (2003) (3)
- Continuity in Islamic political philosophy: the role of myth (1988) (3)
- The Corpus Coranicum Project and the Issue of Novelty (2013) (3)
- NURSI’S PLACE IN THE IHYA’ TRADITION (1999) (2)
- 15. Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion: The Concept of an Islamic Economics (2017) (2)
- Guide to further reading in English (2003) (2)
- The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought , by Aaron W. Hughes Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 265 pages, index, bibliography. US$39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8133-3512-4 (2004) (2)
- Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy (eds), Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur’ān to the Mongols (2016) (2)
- Mullā Ṣadrā: his teachings (2013) (2)
- Judaism: An Introduction (2010) (2)
- Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis: Key Paradigms and Concepts by Massimo Campanini (review) (2017) (2)
- Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ‘Arabi and ‘Iraqi (review) (2012) (2)
- The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy (2003) (2)
- Philosophy vs. Mysticism: an Islamic Controversy (1992) (2)
- The Scientific Counter-Revolution (2020) (2)
- The Mahdi as a Source of Doctrinal Differentiation in Islam (2011) (1)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Introduction (2001) (1)
- Islamic and Comparative Philosophy (2017) (1)
- Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion (2015) (1)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Are the ethics of religion objective or subjective? (2001) (1)
- Religion and Violence: how symbiotic a relationship? (2016) (1)
- Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice (2022) (1)
- Thinking Historically About Jewish Philosophy (2010) (1)
- The Talmud as a source for philosophical reflection: David Novak (2005) (1)
- Equal Opportunities and Physical Education (2017) (1)
- Maimonides, The Soul And The Classical Tradition (2009) (1)
- Philosophy and Shi͑ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (2016) (1)
- New Occasions Teach New Duties? (1995) (1)
- Arab art, royal patronage and the search for definition (2012) (1)
- Modern Developments in Qur’anic Studies (2020) (1)
- A Philosophy of Loneliness by Lars Svendsen (review) (2018) (1)
- An Introduction to Islamic PhilosophyBy Massimo Campanini, with translation by Caroline Higgitt (2009) (1)
- The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (review) (2017) (1)
- Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview: Charles H.Manekin (2005) (1)
- Islamic Philosophical Theology (2011) (1)
- The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (2003) (1)
- Orientalism and Islamic philosophy (2020) (1)
- Job and Suffering in Talmudic and Kabbalistic Judaism (2001) (1)
- Poetry and the Emotions in Islamic Philosophy (2010) (1)
- Book Reviews : Muslims and Christians (1992) (1)
- Sport as community politics. A critique of some recent policy initiatives in sport and physical recreation. In: Sport in the community. The next ten years: problems and issues. (1983) (1)
- Judaism, Philosophy, Culture: Selected Studies by E. I. J. Rosenthal (2001) (1)
- Islam and Morality (2019) (1)
- The Philosophy of Living by François Jullien, and: This Strange Idea of the Beautiful by François Jullien (review) (2017) (0)
- Dialectical Encounter: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue by Taraneh R. Wilkinson (2020) (0)
- Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton, The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument. (London, Routledge, 1997.) Pp. xvi+184, £13.99. (1998) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Immortality and the active intellect (2001) (0)
- CuDAS: An interactive curriculum combining pedagogic composition with interactive software for the teaching of music technology (2010) (0)
- The social and cultural context: seventeenth-century Europe: Elisheva Carlebach (2005) (0)
- The Sociology of Islam: Secuarlism, Economy and Politics (review) (2012) (0)
- Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi: The principles of epistemology in Islamic philosophy: knowledge by presence . (SUNY Series in Islam.) xiii, 232 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992. $16.95. (1993) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: How to read Islamic philosophy (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews : Autobiography as a Way in (1995) (0)
- Jonathan Jacobs, Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides. (2013) (0)
- The Lamp of Mysteries: A Commentary on the Light Verse of the Quran (review) (2013) (0)
- Guy G. Stroumsa : The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity . (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions.) viii, 225 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £66.50. ISBN 978 0 19 873886 2. (2016) (0)
- Making Sense of the Arab World Aesthetically (2011) (0)
- From Al-tusi to the School of Isfahan (2013) (0)
- Cecilia Martini Bonadeo: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Bāġdādī's Philosophical Journey: From Aristotle's Metaphysics to the “Metaphysical Science” . (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies.) xii, 377 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €161. ISBN 978 90 04 24916 5 (2014) (0)
- The Near and Middle East (1999) (0)
- The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri, and Beyond (review) (2016) (0)
- Time, modernity, and destructive habits of thought (1999) (0)
- Barry S. Kogan: Averroes and the metaphysics of causation. xi, 348 pp. Albany, N. y.: State University of New York Press, 1985. $39.50 (paper $14.95). (1987) (0)
- The Near and Middle East (1997) (0)
- The Science of Mystic Lights: Qutb al-Din Shirazi and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy (review) (2008) (0)
- TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF GÜLEN’S METHODOLOGY (2007) (0)
- YAHYA MICHOT: Ibn Sīnā: Lettre au Vizir Abū Sa‘d. (Sagesses musulmanes, 4.) xii, 316 pp. Beirut: Les Editions al-Bouraq, 2000. €43.45. (2002) (0)
- Ayn Al-qudat Hamadani and the Intellectual Climate of His Times (2013) (0)
- Identifying god: how far is the god of judaism, christianity and islam the same god? (2012) (0)
- A NOTE ON TEACHING PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD (1982) (0)
- The Near and Middle East (1999) (0)
- The Qur’an and Pluralism: A Skeptical View (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews : Excellent Introduction To the Qur'an (1997) (0)
- Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays Edited by Peter Adamson and Matteo Di Giovanni (2020) (0)
- Adam Silverstein and Guy Stroumsa (eds) with Moshe Blidstein (associate ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. xvii, 617 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £95. ISBN 978 0 19 969776 2. (2016) (0)
- Revelation and the God of Israel (review) (2004) (0)
- Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides by Kenneth Hart Green (review) (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews : Hick and Nasr on Pluralism (1999) (0)
- cial issues that more recent scholarship has brought to light: the decided lack of social ethics in Zen, the exaggerated sense of Japan’s ‘‘specialness,’’ and the support given by Zen Buddhist teachers to Japan’s military efforts during the Second World (2009) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Preface to the second edition (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews : Jews and Also Christians (1999) (0)
- How to interpret the Qurʾān: a moral issue? (2022) (0)
- Islamic Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: A Variety of Perspectives (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : Jews and also Christians (1999) (0)
- Richard M. Frank: Creation and the cosmic system: al-Ghazālī and Avicenna . 89 pp. (Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Ak. der Wiss. Phil.-hist. Kl.) Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1992. DM 56. (1994) (0)
- Economics of an Islamic Economy (review) (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- Death, bereavement and schools (1990) (0)
- Law, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Happiness, philosophy and society (2001) (0)
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Critique of Religious Discourse: Naqd Khitab al-Dini (2022) (0)
- Alfred Ivry (ed.): Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima. Revised by Muhsin Madhi . 280 pp. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1994. £E19. (1996) (0)
- Looking Back on the 20th Century (1999) (0)
- Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain (2003) (0)
- Julius Guttmann (ed.) and Chaim Rabin (tr.): Maimonides, The guide of the perplexed. 250 pp. Indiana: Hackett, 1995. £27.95 (paper £5.95). (1996) (0)
- Peace and Violence in Islam: Philosophical Issues (2017) (0)
- From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy (2003) (0)
- Revival of Islam, Theories of (2012) (0)
- The style of this book is popular and rather unscholarly, with little specific citation of the secondary literature with which Leaman quarrels, and much reliance on translations by others of the primary literature. Leaman (2008) (0)
- Religion within Reason by Steven M. Cahn (review) (2018) (0)
- The social and cultural context: thirteenth to fifteenth centuries: Marc Saperstein (2005) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: How did God create the world? (2001) (0)
- The Holocaust and the Possibility of Art (2017) (0)
- The Balkan exception: problems and possibilities in Islamic thought (2012) (0)
- Editorial Announcements (2014) (0)
- Transcendental Reasoning and the Indeterminacy of the Human Point of View (1988) (0)
- Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy: Gersonides (1995) (0)
- Is there a Concept of Political Liberty in Medieval Jewish Philosophy? (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Dictionary of Judaism: Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (2000) (0)
- Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications (review) (2006) (0)
- An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities ed. by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith (review) (2015) (0)
- Power and Women in Saudi Arabia: A Note (1978) (0)
- Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization, According to Contemporary, Islamicate and Ancient Sources. By Anthony F. Shaker (2022) (0)
- Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices, by Andrew Rippin (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews : Fla Wed Study of a Nti-Semitism (1997) (0)
- Gabriel Said Reynolds, The Qur'an and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2019) (0)
- Solomon Gaon, The Influence of the Catholic Theologian Alfonso Tostado on the Pentateuch Commentary of Isaac Abravanel . (The Library of Sephardic History and Thought.) Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV, in association with Sephardic House, New York, 1993. Pp. x, 120. $19.95. (1995) (0)
- Review of Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers, by Diane Collinson and Robert Wilkinson ; Essays on Indian Philosophy Traditional and Modern, by J. N. Mohanty ; and Gates of Light , by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla (1995) (0)
- Revelation and the God of Israel, by Norbert Samuelson (2004) (0)
- MYSTICAL-METAPHYSICS: THE TYPE OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY IN NUSANTARA IN THE 17th-18th CENTURY Humaidi (2019) (0)
- The Footprints of God: Divine Accommodation in Jewish and Christian Thought.Stephen D. Benin (1995) (0)
- Beauty in Sufism: the teachings of Ruzbihan Baqli by Kazuyo Murata (review) (2018) (0)
- Maimonides and the Development of Jewish Thought in an Islamic Structure (2005) (0)
- Wael B. Hallaq (tr.): Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians . lviii, 264 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. £30. (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- Ramon Harvey, The Qur'an and the Just Society (2019) (0)
- Philosophy, Religion and the Spiritual Life: Philosophy vs. Mysticism: an Islamic Controversy (1992) (0)
- Review: Suffering in the Mu‘tazilite Theology: ‘Abd al‐Jabbār's Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice M. Heemskerk Suffering in the Mu‘tazilite Theology: ‘Abd al‐Jabbār's Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice (2002) (0)
- Sarah Stroumsa. Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvii + 220 pp. (2020) (0)
- Philosophy: The intersection of Islamic and Jewish thought (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : Contemporary Islam (1992) (0)
- General introductions to Islamic philosophy (2020) (0)
- L’Islam: Religione dell’Occidente , by Massimo Campanini (2016) (0)
- Islamic and Jewish Philosophers (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews : 'Liberal Islam' (1992) (0)
- Jewish nationalism: Ze’ev Levy (2005) (0)
- Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice (2022) (0)
- Qur’Anic and Biblical Prophets: Are They Really the Same People? (2013) (0)
- Later Medieval Philosophy (1150–1350) By John Marenbon Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, 230 pp., £15.95 (1988) (0)
- The Near and Middle East (1997) (0)
- Books Received (2001) (0)
- Philosophy in Islam: The Concept of Shiʿism as a Philosophical Genre (2017) (0)
- An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy: Based on the Works of Murtada Mutahhari by Abd al-Rasul Obudiyyat (review) (2017) (0)
- Kenneth Seeskin Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides. (New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2000). Pp. xi+252. ISBN 0 19 512846 X. (2001) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Can God know particulars? (2001) (0)
- Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain by Sarah Stroumsa (review) (2022) (0)
- When discussing the Kuzari of Halevi, Leo Strauss comments in a footnote that (2016) (0)
- Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics By George Hourani Cambridge University Press, 1985, xv+282 pp., £25.50 (1986) (0)
- Book Review: Diversity of Faiths and Ethics: Ethics & World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies (2000) (0)
- Islamic Philosophy and Western Philosophies (2009) (0)
- Is there a Concept of Liberty in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1997) (0)
- Leo Strauss: Kenneth Hart Green (2005) (0)
- Postmodern Jewish philosophy: Richard A.Cohen (2005) (0)
- Language and its discontents (2022) (0)
- WILLIAM C. CHITTICK: The heart of Islamic philosophy: the quest for self-knowledge in the teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani. xiii, 360 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £45. (2002) (0)
- José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, trans. Consuelo López-Morillas, Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia through to al-Andalus (2019) (0)
- Ian Richard Netton. Al-Fārābī and His School. Pp. 128. (Arabic Thought and Culture. London: Routledge, 1992.) £30 hbk, £10.99 pbk. (1993) (0)
- An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy: Glossary (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews (1996) (0)
- On Scholarship and Scholarly Conventions@@@An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (1986) (0)
- Book Reviews : Jewish Christian Polemic (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews : Bloodless View of Islam (1996) (0)
- Moses Maimonides. Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 16–21: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition. Edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos. (Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.) xxix + 204 pp., bibl., indexes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2015. $89.95 (cloth). (2017) (0)
- Henry Corbin: History of Islamic philosophy. Transl. by L. Sherrard with the assistance of P. Sherrard . 445 pp. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications for the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 1993. £55, $93.50. (1994) (0)
- Review: Islamic Humanism (2004) (0)
- Islamic humanism in the fourth/tenth century (2020) (0)
- Holy war in Judaism: the fall and rise of a controversial idea, by Reuven Firestone (2013) (0)
- Seymour Feldman, Gersonides: Judaism within the Limits of Reason . Oxford and Portland, Oreg.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010. Pp. xiii, 254. $59.50. ISBN: 978-1904113447. (2012) (0)
- Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy: Back to the Bible (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Meaning of Life (2000) (0)
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