Prof. Ibrahim Kalin

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Course Syllabi:

• Islamic Philosophy and Theology
• Introduction to Islam
• Islamic World and the West
• Sufism
• Islam in the Modern World
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Published Works:

1. Books:
   • Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra On the Unity of the Intellect and the Intelligible, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)

2. Translations:

   • Qazwini, Hikmat al-‘ayn (selections) for the Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, ed. by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi (London: I. B. Taurus and the Ismaili Institute, 2005), Vol. 4 (forthcoming).
   • Shaykh al-Darqawi, Letters of a Sufi Master (London, 1982), Turkish translation as Bir Mursidin Mektuplari, Insan Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, 1996.
   • Toshihiko Izutsu, The Concept and Reality of Existence (Kyoto, 1972), Turkish translation as Islamda Varlik Dusuncesi, Insan Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, 1995.

    

3. Articles:
   • Jacques Derrida, Islamica, Issue 12 (Spring 2005), pp.
   • “Islam and Peace: A Preliminary Survey on the Sources of Peace in the Islamic Tradition” Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 11 (January, 2004), pp. 1-32.
   • “Modernity, Culture and the Politics of Acculturation: The Case of Turkey”, Cultural Development and Crisis in the Islamic World, ed. by Nadia Mustafa, Cairo University Press, 2005 (forthcoming).
   • “The Sun Rising from the West: The Influence of American Islamic Thinkers on Turkey” in Assessing the Influence of American Islamic Tinkers Abroad, ed. by Philippa Strum (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Institute, 2005) (forthcoming).
   • “Why Do Animals Eat Other Animals? Mulla Sadra on the Best of All Possible Worlds” Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 12 (June, 2004) (forthcoming).
   • “Mulla Sadra’s Realist Ontology and the Concept of Knowledge” The Muslim World, Vol 94, No 1 (January 2004), pp. 81-106.
   • “Roots of Misconception: Euro-American Perceptions of Islam Before and After September 11th” in Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition ed. by Joseph Lumbard (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004), pp. 143-187.
   • “An Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Mulla Sadra with a Brief Account of His Life” Islamic Studies Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 21-62.
   • “American Muslim Community as a Frontier Culture: From Religious Parochialism to Bridge-Building” EuroAgenda/Avrupa Gunlugu, No. 5 (2004) pp. 351-364.
   • “Between Physics and Metaphysics: Mulla Sadra on Nature and Motion” Islam and Science Vol. I, 2003, pp. 65-93; an earlier version published in Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy: Proceedings of the World Congress on Mulla Sadra (Tehran: Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, 2001), Vol. 1, pp. 301-327.
   • “Three Views of Science in the Islamic World”, God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives, eds. Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, Syed Nomanul Haq, (Ashgate, 2002), pp. 43-75.
   • “The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr on Science”, Library of Living Philosophers: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. L. E. Hahn, R. E. Auxier and L. W. Stone (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2001), pp. 445-462.
   • “Rene Guenon”, Center for Islam and Science, Resources on Islam and Science at www.cis-ca.org (posted in July 2001). Translated into Bosnian in Znakovi Vremena, No 18-19 (2003).
   • “Seyyed Hossein Nasr”, Center for Islam and Science, Resources on Islam and Science at www.cis-ca.org (posted in March 2001).
   • “Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghani”, Center for Islam and Science, Resources on Islam and Science at www.cis-ca.org (posted in June 2001).
   • “Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (Mulla Sadra)”, Center for Islam and Science, Resources on Islam and Science at www.cis-ca.org (posted in March 2001).
   • “Knowledge as the Unity of the Intellect and the Object of Intellection in Islamic Philosophy: A Historical Survey from Plato to Mulla Sadra”, Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism, Vol. 1, Number 1, (June 2000), pp. 73-91; also published in Seyed Safavi (ed.), Perception According to Mulla Sadra, Salman-Azadeh Publication, n.p., 2002, pp. 74-99.
   • “Dawud al-Qaysari on Being as Truth and Reality” in Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. Zeylan Morris, ABC International Group Inc, Chicago, 1999, pp. 233-249. A shorter and slightly different version of this essay is published as “Being as Truth and Reality in al-Qaysari's Muqaddimah li-Fusus al-Hikam” in International Symposium on Islamic Thought in Anatolia in the 13th and 14th Centuries and Daud al-Qaysari, Ankara, 1988, pp.151-157 with a Turkish translation, pp. 143-149.
   • Islam Science and Society.

    

4. Book Reviews:

   • Emran Qureshi and Michael Sells (eds.), The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy, The MESA Bulletin (forthcoming).

   • Vartan Gregorian, Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith, Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 518-9.

   • Jurgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature, Sacred Web Vol. 13 (July 2004), pp. 153-158.

   • Farhad Daftary (ed.) Intellectual Traditions in Islam, The Muslim World Book Review Vol. 24 (Winter 2004), No 2, pp. 17-21.

   • Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman (eds.) History of Islamic Philosophy, Teaching Philosophy, 26:4 (December, 2003), pp. 397-399.

   • Kiki Kennedy-Day, Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy, Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 2003), pp. 152-4.

   • Crill Glasse, The New Encyclopedia of Islam, Islamic Studies Vol. 42 (Autumn 2003) No 3, pp. 527-530.

   • Sohail Hashmi (ed.), Islamic Political Ethics, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 20 (spring 2003) No 2, pp. 95-103.

   • Gutas, Dimitri. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society (2^nd-4^th/8^th-10^th Centuries), ISIS Volume 94 No 1 (March 2003), pp. 138-140.

   • William Chittick, Sufism: A Short Introduction, Muslim World Book Review Vol. 22, No 2 (January-March, 2002), pp. 23-25.

   • Michael Sells, Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings, Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 20, No 3 (Spring 2000), pp. 20-22.

   • Bilal Kuspinar, Isma'il Ankaravi on the Illuminative Philosophy: His Izahu'l-Hikem: Its edition and Analysis in Comparison with Dawwani's Shawakil al-Hur, together with the Translation of Suhrawardi's Hayakil al-Nur, Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 20, No 3 (Spring 2000), 22-24.

   • Vincent J. Cornell, The Way of Abu Madyan: Doctrinal and Poetic Works of Abu Madyan Shu'ayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari, Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 18, No 4 (1998), pp. 18-20.

   • S. J. Ashtiyani, H. Matsubara, T. Iwami, and A. Matsumoto (eds), Consciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu, Sophia, Vol. 4, No 2, (1998), pp. 266-269.

   • Eric Winkel, Mysteries of Purity, Ibn al-Arabi’s Asrar al-taharah, (Indiana: Cross Cultural Publications, Inc., 1995), Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 21, No 2 (January-March 2001), pp. 14-17.

   •   Serif Mardin, The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought: A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas, (Syracuse University Press, 2000), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 110-114.

   • Bernd Radtke and John O'Kane, The Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism, (London: Curzon Press, 1996), Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 21, No 2 (January-March 2001), pp. 17-18.

   • Zafar Ali Qureshi, Prophet Muhammad and His Western Critics: A Critique of W. Montgomery Watt and Others (Lahore: Idara Ma’arif Islamic, 1992), 2 Vols, pp. 1103. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 18, No 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 162-164.

Lectures:

1. Forum of Scholars and Intellectuals Preparatory to the Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference, organized by the Organization of Islamic Conference, Makkah, September, 9-11, 2005.

2. “The State of Islamic Sciences”, The National Conference on the Problems of Religious Sciences, Center for Islamic Studies, Istanbul, April 14-17, 2005.

3. “Ethics of Living with the Other”, Civilization and Order: The Values and Mechanisms of the Global Order, organized by The European Union-Organization of Islamic Conference Joint Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, October, 2-3, 2004.

4.  “Culture, Modernity and the Politics of Acculturation: The Case of Turkey”, International Conference on Culture and Crisis in the Islamic World, Cairo University, December 4-6, 2004.

5.  “Why Do Animals Eat Other Animals? Mulla Sadra on the Best of All Possible Worlds”, The 2^nd World Congress of Mulla Sadra, Tehran, Iran, May 21-25, 2004.

6. “Human Agency: From Mulla Sadra to Charles Taylor”, XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-17, 2003.

7.  “Peace and Justice in the Bible and the Qur’an”, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, July 7-31, 2003.

8. “Reading the Book of Nature: Science and Beyond”, Beacon of Knowledge: A Conference Honoring Seyyed Hossein Nasr, November 2-3, 2001, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

9.  “Three Views of Science in the Islamic World”, God, Life, and Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives, November 6-9, 2000, Islamabad, Pakistan.

10. “Knowledge as the Unity of the Intellect and the Object of Intellection in Islamic Philosophy: A Historical Survey from Plato to Mulla Sadra”, International Conference on Perception According to Mulla Sadra and Western Philosophy, May 11-13, 2000, SOAS, University of London, London, UK.

11.  “From Purity to Embodiment: Human Agency”, 6^th Annual Human Sciences Conference 'Rethinking the Human Sciences', April 7-8, 2000, George Washington University, Mt. Vernon Campus, Washington DC.

12. “The Battle of Names: Language, Essence and Convention in Plato’s Cratylus” with Peter Caws as respondent, The Human Sciences Colloquium, February 17, 2000, George Washington University, Washington DC.

13. “Between Physics and Metaphysics: Mulla Sadra on Nature”, The World Congress of Mulla Sadra, May 23-25, 1999, Tehran, Iran.

14. “Critical Remarks on Knowledge as Presence”, Contemporary Islamic Philosophers 2^nd Annual Conference, February 27, 1999, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia.

Conference Reports

1. “The World Congress on Mulla Sadra”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Volume 16, No 3 (Fall 1999), pp.145-148; reprinted in Iqbal Review Volume 40, No. 3-4 (October, 1999), pp. 107-110.

2.  “God, Life, and Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Volume 17, No 3 (Fall, 2000), pp. 138-139.

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