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1 Suleiman A. MOURAD LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. The Muʿtazila and Qurʾanic Hermeneutics: A Study of al-ḥākim al-jishumī s (d. 494/1101) Exegesis al-tahdhīb fī Tafsīr al-qurʾān. Oxford: Oxford University Press and London: Institute of Ismaili Studies (Submission Date: August 2018). 2. (with Perry Anderson). The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson. London: Verso, French Edition: La mosaïque de l islam: entretien sur le coran et le djihadisme avec Perry Anderson. (Collection : Poids et Mesures du Monde, ed. Alain Supiot). Trans. Matthieu Forlodou. Paris: Fayard / Institut d'études Avancées de Nantes, South Asia Edition: Gurugram (India): Three Essays Collective, Reviews In: a. Counterpunch.org (6 March 2017) (Ron Jacobs). b. Morning Star (16 January 2017) (Steve Andrew). Informed-dialogue-on-the-subtleties-of-Islamic-religion#.WIE9BX0nnlw c. LE MONDE Diplomatique 754 (January 2017): 25 (Alain Gresh). d. Socialist Review 419 (December 2016) (Dave Weltman). e. LE MONDE des Religion (Novembre/Décembre 2016): 76. (Martin Brésis). f. Historiens & Géographes 436 (Octobre/Novembre 2016) (Alain Miossec). g. Le Figaro (16 17 Septembre 2016): 40 (Vincent Trémolet de Villers). h. La Cause Littéraire (3 Octobre 2016) (Zoé Tisset). i. Le Point (15 Septembre 2016) (Catherine Golliau) Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya s Compendious Commentary on The Paradise of the Egyptian Fathers in Garshuni. Critical Edition with English Translation by Mario Kozah, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, and Suleiman A. Mourad. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016.

2 2 4. (with James E. Lindsay). The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn ʿAsākir ( ) of Damascus and His Age; with an edition and translation of Ibn ʿAsākir s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad. Leiden: Brill, Paperback Edition: The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period. Leiden: Brill, Reviews In: a. Middle East Quarterly 23.2 (2016) (Raymond Ibrahim). b. Journal of the American Oriental Society (2015): (Konrad Hirschler). c. Al-Abhath ( ): (Bashir Saade). d. Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 28 (2012): (Niall Christie). e. Ilahiyat Studies 4.1 (2013): (Harald Motzki). 5. Early Islam between Myth and History: al-ḥasan al-baṣrī (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. Leiden: Brill, Reviews In: a. Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 11.2 (2010): (Mustafa Shah). b. Theologische Literaturzeitung (2009): (Saeed Zarrabi Zadeh and Jamal Malik). c. Review of Middle East Studies 43.1 (2009): (Mustafa Shah). d. Bulletin d Islamologie et d Études Arabes 93 (2009): (Claude Gilliot). e. Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée 125 (2009): (Matthieu Tillier). f. Journal of American Oriental Society (2008): (Andrew Rippin). g. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 19.2 (2008): (David Thomas). h. Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies 1.4 (2008): (Rebecca Masterton). i. International Journal of Middle East Studies 40.3 (2008): (Kristin Sands). j. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70.1 (2007): (Wilferd Madelung). 6. Sīrat al-sayyid al-masīḥ li-ibn ʿAsākir al-dimashqī (a study and critical edition of the biography of Jesus by the medieval Damascene scholar Ibn ʿAsākir). Amman: Dār al-shurūq, EDITED VOLUMES 1. Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem. Eds. Suleiman A. Mourad, Naomi Koltun-Fromm, and Bedross Der Matossian. London: Routledge, 2017 (in preparation). 2. In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi. Eds. Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn, Tarif Khalidi, and Suleiman A. Mourad. Beirut: AUB Press, Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. Eds. Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad. London: Routledge, Reviews In:

3 3 a. Journal of Palestinian Studies 39.3(2010): (Wendy Pullan). b. The Muslim World Book Review 30.3 (2010) (Abu Huzayfa). c. The Middle East Journal 63.1 (2009): 163 (Michael Dumper). d. Global Dialogue 11 (2009): (John Quigley). e. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72.1 (2009): (Roberto Mazza). ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS & BOOKS 1. Why Did Ibn Taymiyya Hate Mount Lebanon? An Inquiry into the Medieval Ideology of Muslim-on-Muslim Violence. In In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi. Eds. Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn, Tarif Khalidi, and Suleiman A. Mourad. Beirut: AUB Press, Pp (with James Lindsay). Sunni Jihād Propaganda in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Damascus: An Analysis of the Colophons (Samāʿāt) of Ibn ʿAsākir s Forty Ḥadiths for Inciting Jihād. In New Perspectives on Ibn ʿAsakir in Islamic Historiography. Eds. Steven Judd and Jens Scheiner. Leiden: Brill, Pp Why Do We Need Tafsīr? The Muʿtazila Perspective. Mélanges de l Université Saint-Joseph 66 ( ): De l importance de comprendre les racines religieuses et historiques du terrorisme islamiste. In After Paris : Conflits, Exodes, Attentats. Ed. Pierre Musso. Nantes: Institut d Études Avancées de Nantes, Pp (with Mario Kozah and Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn). Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya s Compendious Commentary on the Paradise of the Egyptian Fathers in Garshuni. In An Anthology of Syriac Writers from Qatar in the Seventh Century. Eds. Mario Kozah, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Saif Shaheen Al-Murikhi, and Haya Al Thani. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, Pp (with James E. Lindsay). A Muslim Response to the Second Crusade: Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus as Propagandist of Jihad. The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom. Eds. Jason T. Roche & Janus Møller Jensen. Turnhout: Brepols, Pp The Death of Jesus in Islam: Reality, Assumptions, and Implications. Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus. Ed. Oliver Larry Yarbrough. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Pp Christianity in Arabia: An Overview (4 th 9 th Centuries CE). The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh Century. Eds. Mario Kozah, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Saif Shaheen Al-Murikhi and Haya Al Thani. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, Pp

4 4 9. Jesus in the Qurʾan and Other Early Islamic Texts. In Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perceptions. The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research, Princeton Ed. James H. Charlesworth with Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Pp Did the Crusades Change Jerusalem s Religious Symbolism in Islam? Al-ʿUṣūr al-wusṭā: Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 22:1 2 (2010): 3 8. (volume published in 2014) 11. Towards a Reconstruction of the Muʿtazilī Tradition of Qurʾanic Exegesis: Reading the Introduction of the Tahdhīb of al-ḥākim al-jishumī (d. 494/1101) and Its Application. In Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qurʾanic Exegesis (2 nd /8 th 9 th /15 th C.). Ed. Karen Bauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies (London), Pp The Muʿtazila and Their Tafsīr Tradition: A Comparative Study of Five Exegetical Glosses on Qurʾan In Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾan. Ed. Mustafa Shah. London: Routledge, Vol. 3, pp (with James E. Lindsay). Ibn ʿAsakir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Crusader-Era Syria. In Just Wars, Holy Wars, & Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges. Ed. Sohail H. Hashmi. New York: Oxford University Press, Pp The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān in Muʿtazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahdhīb of al-ḥākim al-jishumī (d. 494/1101). In Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas. Eds. Felicitas Opwis & David Reisman. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Pp Reprinted In: Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾan. Ed. Mustafa Shah. London: Routledge, Vol. 2, pp Does the Qurʾan Deny or Assert Jesus Crucifixion and Death? In New Perspectives on the Qurʾān: The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context 2. Ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds. London & New York: Routledge, Pp Dome of the Rock. Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies. Ed. Tamara Sonn. New York: Oxford University Press, Pp ( xml?rskey=DLcJlQ&result=21&q=). 17. Poetry, History, and the Early Arab-Islamic Conquests of al-shām (Greater Syria). In Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab History. Eds. Ramzi Baalbaki, Saleh Said Agha, & Tarif Khalidi. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, Pp

5 5 18. Ibn ʿAsākir. In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 3 ( ). Eds. David Thomas & Alex Mallett. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Pp The Survival of the Muʿtazila Tradition of Qurʾanic Exegesis in Shīʿī and Sunnī tafāsīr. Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 12 (2010): Reprinted In: Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾan. Ed. Mustafa Shah. London: Routledge, Vol. 3, pp Persian Translation: Sunnat-e tafsiri bar ja-ye mandeh az muʿtazila dar tafasir-e shiʿi ve sunni. Ayine-ye Pojuhesh 24.3 (1392): ( 20. Christians and Christianity in the Sīra of Muḥammad. In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 1 ( ). Eds. David Thomas & Barbara Roggema. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Pp Jihād Propaganda in Early Crusader Syria: A Preliminary Examination of the Role of Displaced Scholars in Damascus. Al-ʿUṣūr al-wusṭā: Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 20.1 (2008): (with Tamar Mayer). Introduction. Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. Eds. Tamar Mayer & Suleiman A. Mourad. London: Routledge, Pp The Symbolism of Jerusalem in Early Islam. Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. Eds. Tamar Mayer & Suleiman A. Mourad. London: Routledge, Pp Ibn al-khallāl al-baṣrī (d. after 377/988) and His Œuvre on the Problematic Verses of the Qurʾān Kitāb al-radd ʿalā al-jabriyya al-qadariyya (Refutation of the Predestinarian Compulsionists). In A Common Rationality: Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 15). Eds. Camilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke, & David Sklare. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, Pp Mary in the Qurʾān: A Reexamination of Her Presentation. In The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context. Ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds. London: Routledge, Pp Arabic Translation: Maryam fī al-qurʾān. In al-qurʾān fī muḥitih al-tārīkhī. Ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds. Trans. Saʿd Allāh al-saʿdī. Beirut: Manshūrāt al-jamal, Pp (with James E. Lindsay). Rescuing Syria from the Infidels: The Contribution of Ibn ʿAsakir of Damascus to the Jihad Campaign of Sultan Nur al-din. Crusades 6 (2007): Arabian Christianity between the Qurʾān and Medieval Qurʾānic Exegesis. In Arab Christians, Christians in Arabia. Eds. Detlev Kreikenbom, Franz-Christoph Muth & Jörn Thielmann. Frankfurt: Peter Kang, Pp Christian Monks in Islamic Literature: A Preliminary Report on Some Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 6.2 (2004):

6 6 29. From Hellenism to Christianity and Islam: The Origin of the Palm tree Story concerning Mary and Jesus in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Qurʾān. Oriens Christianus 86 (2002): Jesus according to Ibn ʿAsākir. In Ibn ʿAsākir and Early Islamic History. Ed. James E. Lindsay. Princeton: The Darwin Press, Pp Publication History of Taʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq (The History of Damascus). In Ibn ʿAsākir and Early Islamic History. Ed. James E. Lindsay. Princeton: The Darwin Press, Pp On Early Islamic Historiography: Abū Ismāʿīl al-azdī and his Futūḥ al-shām (Conquests of Syria). Journal of the American Oriental Society (2000): On the Qurʾanic Stories about Mary and Jesus. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 1.2 (1999): A Note on the Origin of Faḍāʾil Bayt al-maqdis (Merits of Jerusalem) Compilations. Al-Abhath 44 (1996): A Twelfth Century Muslim Biography of Jesus. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 7 (1996): ARTICLES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS & REFERENCE WORKS 1. Al-Ḥākim al-jishumī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Eds. Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, & Everett Rowson. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007 present. (In Press). 2. Ibn al-khallāl al-baṣrī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. (In Press). 3. Ibn ʿAsākir and Family. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Al-Ḥasan al-baṣrī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Muways b.ʿimrān. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Al-Faḍl b. al-ḥubāb al-jumaḥī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp ʿAbbād b. Salmān. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Aḥmad b. Ḥābiṭ. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp ʿAmr b. ʿUbayd. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Abū l-hudhayl. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAwn. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Abū Bishr Ḥawshab al-thaqafī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp Abū Ḥafṣ al-miṣrī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Part : pp

7 7 14. Al-Ḥasan al-baṣrī. The I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. Eds. Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem & Mustafa A. A. Shah. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017 (In Press). 15. Al-Ḥākim al-jishumī. The I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. (In Press). 16. Al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm al-rassī. The I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. (In Press). 17. Al-Hasan al-basri. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2 nd Edition. 2 vols. Ed. Richard C. Martin. Farmington: Gale, Vol. 1: pp Hypocrisy. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Eds. Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J. Stewart, & Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Pp Freewill and Predestination. The Islamic World. Ed. Andrew Rippin. New York: Routledge, Pp Al-Suyūṭī. The Islamic World. Pp Aqsa Mosque. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 Vols. Ed. Josef Meri. New York: Routledge, Vol. 1: pp Commentary. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Damascus. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Dome of the Rock. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Gnosis. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: p Al-Hasan al-basri. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Ibn ʿAsakir. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Jesus. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1: pp Articles/Interviews in Magazines/Newspapers & TV Appearances 1. How the US Creates Terrorism Jacobin (4 April 2017) 2. Politics of Islam? Worlds Apart with Oksana Boyko, RT TV (first aired 29 January 2017) L islam devient un sujet controversé à cause de la pensée salafiste. Lyon Capitale (28 December 2016).

8 8 4. Al-Fikr al-salafi adkhal al-islam al-sunni fi azma kabira, Hiwar maʿ Wassim Alahmar, France حوار- TV Arabic (first aired on 26 December 2016). ; سليمان-مراد-إسلام-تيارات-تا ويلات-اختلاف-دين-سلفية 5. Diversity of Islam, The Interview with Douglas Herbert, France 24 TV English (first aired on 18 December 2016) La Salafisation des esprits est en marche. Le Point (15 September 2016) Le Jihad, La tribune de l IEA avec Ali el-kenz, EuRadioNantes (first aired on 13 June 2015). 8. As Duas Metades do Islã. Zero Hora (Brazil) (18 January 2015): Riddles of the Book. New Left Review 86 (March April 2014): French Translation: Les enigmes du livre. forthcoming. - German Translation: Rätsel Des Buches: Zur Geschichte des Korans und der historischen Dynamik des Islams. Lettre International 106 (2014): Romanian Translation: Enigmele Cărţii. Lettre International (ediţia română) 92 ( ): Russian Translation: Сулейман Мурад: Загадки Книги. Страницы: БОГОСЛОВИЕ, КУЛЬТУРА, ОБРАЗОВAНИЕ (Pages: Theology, Culture, Education), 18:3 (2014): Spanish Translation: Enigmas del Libro. New Left Review (Spanish Edition) 86 (May June 2014): Turkish Translation: Kitabin Muammalari Limadha yakrah Ibn Taymiyya Jabal Lubnan? As-Safir 40, #12725 (15 March 2014): The Forbidden Fruits of Mount Lebanon. Oasis 19:8 (2013): (English edition). - French Translation: Les fruits défendus du Mont Liban. Oasis 19:8 (2013): (French edition). - Italian Translation: I frutti proibiti del Monte Libano. Oasis 19:8 (2013): (Italian edition). 12. Jesus in Islam. Inside Islam: Dialogues & Debates with Jean Feraca, Wisconsin Public Radio (first aired on 21 December 2011).

9 9 13. Issues Dedicated to an Informed Public with Representative Betty Nuovo, produced for Middlebury Community TV (four episodes on Islam aired in December 2004 & January 2005). 14. Roadmap to Peace, Switchboard with Steve Zend, Vermont Public Radio (first aired on 14 October 2003). 15. The Craft of History, Al-Mustaqbal TV (first aired in April 2000). Appearances on Documentaries 1. The Saint and the Sultan film (to air on PBS in November 2017). 2. Jésus et l Islam / Jesus and Islam documentary series, produced for ARTE TV (first aired on 8 10 December 2015). 3. Jews and Muslims: So Far, So Close documentary film series, produced for ARTE TV (first aired on 22 October 2013). 4. Jerusalem: Center of the World documentary film, produced for PBS TV (first aired on 1 April 2009). BOOK REVIEWS 1. Alex Mallett. Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, Farnham: Ashgate, Journal of the American Oriental Society (2017): Daniel Lav. Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ilahiyat Studies 5 (2014): Anne-Marie Eddé. Saladin. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Journal of Islamic Studies 24.2 (2013): Mustafa Akyol. Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty. New York: Norton, First Things (January 2012): Feras Hamza and Sajjad Rizvi (eds.), with Farhana Mayer. An Anthology of Qurʾanic Commentaries. Vol. 1: On the Nature of the Divine. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society (2011): Richard M. Frank. Classical Islamic Theology: The Ashʿarites. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām, Vol. III. (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Edited by Dimitri Gutas. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 73.3 (2010): David Thomas. Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Journal of Religion in Europe 2 (2009):

10 10 8. Richard M. Frank. Early Islamic Theology: The Muʿtazilites and al-ashʿarī. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām, Vol. II. (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Edited by Dimitri Gutas. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71.1 (2008): Andrew J. Lane. A Traditional Muʿtazilite Qurʾān Commentary: The Khashshāf of Jār Allāh al- Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144). Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Journal of Semitic Studies 52.2 (2007): Richard M. Frank. Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I. (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Edited by Dimitri Gutas. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70.1 (2007): Michael Cook. Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition. (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, Journal of Islamic Studies 18.1 (2007): Chase F. Robinson. Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 15.3 (2004): Daniel A. Madigan. The Qurʾân s Self-image: Writing and Authority in Islam s Scripture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 5.1 (2003): Mohammed A. Bamyeh. The Social Origins of Islam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 4.1 (2002): Youssef Courbage and Philip Fargues. Christians and Jews under Islam. London: I. B. Tauris, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 2.2 (2000): Fred M. Donner. Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing. Princeton: The Darwin Press, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 2.1 (2000):

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