Coherence of the Incoherence
Books
Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos (Gorgias Press, 2023).
Academic Papers and Book Chapters
- “Divine Knowledge and Power”
Routledge: Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives, edited by Muhammad Zarepour (forthcoming Dec. 2023). - “Occasionalism and Contemporary Analyses of Causation,”Philosophy & Theology (2018).
- “Divine Conservation, Concurrence, and Occasionalism” International Philosophical Quarterly 58:2 (2018).
- “Ibn Khaldun and Occasionalism” Kalam Research and Media: Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu (2017).
- “Problems with Aquinas’ Third Way” Brill: Revisiting Aquinas’ Proofs for the Existence of God, edited by Robert Arp (2016).
- “Between Divine Simplicity and the Eternity of the World: Ghazali on the Necessity of the Necessary Existent in the Incoherence of the Philosophers” Philosophy and Theology Vol 27:1 (2015).
- “Al-Ghazali’s Position on the ‘Second Proof’ of the ‘Philosophers’ for the Eternity of the World, in the First Discussion of the Incoherence of the Philosophers” Sophia 54 (4) 429-441 (2015).
- “On the First and Second Proofs of the Eighteenth Discussion of Tahafut al Falasifa” Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies 23 (2010).
- “Comparing Phases of Skepticism in al-Ghazali and Descartes: Some First Meditations on Deliverance from Error” Philosophy East & West 59:1 (2009).
- “Actualism and the Distinction of Truth over Truth-in-a-world,” Sorites 20 (2008).
- “A Primer for a Contemporary Occasionalist Metaphysics of Nature” Al-Shajarah 13:1 (2008).
- “Al-Ghazali on Power, Causation, and ‘Acquisition’” Philosophy East & West 57:1 (2007).
- “A Significant Difference Between al-Ghazali and Hume on Causation” Journal of Islamic Philosophy Vol. 3 (2007).
- “Al-Ghazali’s Occasionalism and the Natures of Creatures” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 58:2 (2005).
Values without Borders
Academic Papers and Book Chapters
- “Islamic Wittgensteinian Fideism?” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 18:2 (2022).
- “Al-Ghazali and Natural Law Theory” Palgrave Macmillan: Reason, Revelation, and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and Tradition, edited by Charles Wellor and Anver Emon (2021).
- “Universalizability and the Metaphysics of Moral Particularism,” Philosophical Forum 49:3 (2018).
- “The Jinn and the Shayateen” Routledge: Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, edited by McGraw and Arp (2017).
- “A ‘Confucian’ Insight on the Contemporary Human Condition” International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association Vol 9: 2 (2016).
- “At the Threshold of the King: Reflections on ‘Chinese’ and ‘Greek’ Knowledge in al-Ghazali’s ‘Marvels of the Heart’” International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association Vol 8: 2 (2015).
- “Moral Dilemmas” Macmillan Publishers: Understanding Ethics, edited by Chaturvedi and Sahni (2013).
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Obligatory in al-Ghazali’s al-Mustasfa min Ilm al-Usul” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 8 (2012).
- “Reasons, Resultance, and Moral Particularism” Philosophical Quarterly 57:226 (2007).
- “A Path to the Oasis: Shari’ah and Reason in Islamic Moral Epistemology”International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62:3 (2007).
- “Al-Ghazali’s Reflections on the Metaphysics of Metaphor in Mishkat al-Anwar” Sophia 46:2 (2007).
- “Can Minimalism Account for the Value of Truth?” Disputatio 2:22 (2007).
- “Implications of Historical Progress” Global Virtue Ethics Review 5:2 (2004).
- “Hindu Ethics and the Moral Question of Abortion” Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 14:4 (2004).
- “A Look at Nietzsche’s Criticisms of Buddhist Philosophy” The Philosopher 92:1 (2004).
“Assessing the Threat of Radical Moral Particularism” Southwest Philosophy Review 18:2 (2002).