Khalil, Atif
Faculty
History and Religion Department
- Phone
- (403) 332-4585
- atif.khalil@uleth.ca
About Me
I teach mainly in the field classical Islamic thought, with primary research interests in Sufism, and secondary interests in Islamic philosophy and theology, comparative mysticism, Orientalism, and the medieval Judaeo-Islamic Tradition.
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Publications
Books, Articles & Chapters in Books
"The Islamic Background to a Medieval Rabbi's Meditations on Sin and Repentance: The Case of Bahya ibn Paquda" (in progress)
"On Patience (Sabr) in Sufi Virtue Ethics," in Mysticism and Ethics in Islam, eds. Bilal Orfali, Mohammed Rustom and Atif Khalil (American University of Beirut, 2022)
"Humility in Islamic Contemplative Ethics," Journal of Islamic Ethics
"White Death: Ibn al-'Arabi on the Trials and Virtues of Fasting and Hunger," Journal of the American Oriental Society
"Sufism and Quranic Ethics," in The Routledge Companion to Sufism, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon (New York: Routledge)
Repentance and the Return to God in Early Sufism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018)
"The Dialectic of Gratitude in the Non-Dualism of Ibn al-'Arabī," Journal of the Ibn Arabi Society 64 (2018): 27-51. Translated into Albanian.
Review Article of Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy by Caner Dagli (London: Routledge, 2016), Nazariyat (2017): 157-165. Translated into Turkish.
"The Embodiment of Gratitude (Shukr) in Sufi Ethics," Studia Islamica 111 (2016): 159-178.
"Sufism in the World of Islam and Western Scholarship: A Brief Historiography" (with S. Sheikh) Philosophy East and West 66, no. 1 (2016): 194-217.
"On Cultivating Gratitude in Sufi Virtue Ethics," Journal of Sufi Studies 4 (2015): 1-26.
"Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Globalization and the Judeo-Islamic Legacy," Journal of Religion and Society 17 (2015). http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/
"Contentment, Satisfaction and Good Pleasure: Rida in Early Sufi Moral Psychology," Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 43, no. 3 (2014): 1-19.
In Search of the Lost Heart: Essays in Islamic Thought by William Chittick. Ed. with Mohammed Rustom (main editor) and Kazuyo Murata (Albany: SUNY, 2012)
"Tawba in the Sufi Psychology of Abū Tālib al-Makkī," Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies (2012)
"Abū Tālib al-Makkī and the Qūt al-Qulūb (Nourishment of Hearts) in the Context of Early Sufism," Muslim World (2012)
"Is God Obliged to Answer Prayers of Petition? The Response of Classical Sufis and Quran Exegetes," Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (2011)
"The Vision of Existence in Hua-yen Buddhism," Sacred Web (2009)
"Ibn al-'Arabī on the Three Conditions of Tawba," Journal of Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations (2006)
Book Reviews
•tAhmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love by Joseph Lumbard (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016), Journal of Sufi Studies 6 (2017): 233-236.
•tSufism and Deconstruction (London: Routledge, 2009), Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, 39 (2017): 163-168.
•tSufism Black and White, eds. Bilal Orfali and Nada Saab (Leiden: Brill, 2012), Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 45, no. 1 (2016): 79-80.
•tSpiritual Purification in Islam: The Life and Words of al-Muhasibi by Gavin Picken, (New York: Routledge, 2011), Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 42, no. 2 (2016): 278-280.
•tIslamic Mysticism and the Role of the Heart by Saeko Yazaki (Routledge, 2012), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 25, no. 2 (2015): 357-360.
•tThe Comfort of the Mystics (Salwat al-'ārifīn) by Gerhard Bowering and Bilal Orfali (Leiden, Brill: 2013), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31, no. 3 (2014):149-152.
•tThe Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2012), Studies in Religion 43 (2014): 183-185.
•tArabic-English Dictionary of Qur'ānic Usage by Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (Leiden, Brill. 2008), Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 40 (2014): 101-104.
•tRitter, Hellmut. The Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World, and God in the Stories of Farīd Al-Dīn Aṭṭār (Leiden: Brill, 2003), Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36 (2007): 626-627.
•tSaleh, Walid. The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition: The Qur'ān Commentary of Al-Tha'labi (Leiden: Brill, 2003), Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses 35 (2006): 610-611.
•tGianotti, Timothy. Al-Ghazālī's Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul: Unveiling the Esoteric Psychology and Eschatology of the Iḥyā' (Leiden: Brill, 2001), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23, no.1 (Winter 2006): 126-128.
•tCoates, Peter. Ibn Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously (Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2002), Journal of Religion and Society 7 (2005).
•tMeri, Josef. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21, No. 4 (Fall 2005): 133-136.
•tChittick, William. Mulla Sadra, The Elixir of the Gnostics: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2003), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21, no.1 (Winter 2004): 127-130
"The Islamic Background to a Medieval Rabbi's Meditations on Sin and Repentance: The Case of Bahya ibn Paquda" (in progress)
"On Patience (Sabr) in Sufi Virtue Ethics," in Mysticism and Ethics in Islam, eds. Bilal Orfali, Mohammed Rustom and Atif Khalil (American University of Beirut, 2022)
"Humility in Islamic Contemplative Ethics," Journal of Islamic Ethics
"White Death: Ibn al-'Arabi on the Trials and Virtues of Fasting and Hunger," Journal of the American Oriental Society
"Sufism and Quranic Ethics," in The Routledge Companion to Sufism, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon (New York: Routledge)
Repentance and the Return to God in Early Sufism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018)
"The Dialectic of Gratitude in the Non-Dualism of Ibn al-'Arabī," Journal of the Ibn Arabi Society 64 (2018): 27-51. Translated into Albanian.
Review Article of Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy by Caner Dagli (London: Routledge, 2016), Nazariyat (2017): 157-165. Translated into Turkish.
"The Embodiment of Gratitude (Shukr) in Sufi Ethics," Studia Islamica 111 (2016): 159-178.
"Sufism in the World of Islam and Western Scholarship: A Brief Historiography" (with S. Sheikh) Philosophy East and West 66, no. 1 (2016): 194-217.
"On Cultivating Gratitude in Sufi Virtue Ethics," Journal of Sufi Studies 4 (2015): 1-26.
"Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Globalization and the Judeo-Islamic Legacy," Journal of Religion and Society 17 (2015). http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/
"Contentment, Satisfaction and Good Pleasure: Rida in Early Sufi Moral Psychology," Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 43, no. 3 (2014): 1-19.
In Search of the Lost Heart: Essays in Islamic Thought by William Chittick. Ed. with Mohammed Rustom (main editor) and Kazuyo Murata (Albany: SUNY, 2012)
"Tawba in the Sufi Psychology of Abū Tālib al-Makkī," Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies (2012)
"Abū Tālib al-Makkī and the Qūt al-Qulūb (Nourishment of Hearts) in the Context of Early Sufism," Muslim World (2012)
"Is God Obliged to Answer Prayers of Petition? The Response of Classical Sufis and Quran Exegetes," Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (2011)
"The Vision of Existence in Hua-yen Buddhism," Sacred Web (2009)
"Ibn al-'Arabī on the Three Conditions of Tawba," Journal of Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations (2006)
Book Reviews
•tAhmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love by Joseph Lumbard (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016), Journal of Sufi Studies 6 (2017): 233-236.
•tSufism and Deconstruction (London: Routledge, 2009), Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, 39 (2017): 163-168.
•tSufism Black and White, eds. Bilal Orfali and Nada Saab (Leiden: Brill, 2012), Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 45, no. 1 (2016): 79-80.
•tSpiritual Purification in Islam: The Life and Words of al-Muhasibi by Gavin Picken, (New York: Routledge, 2011), Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 42, no. 2 (2016): 278-280.
•tIslamic Mysticism and the Role of the Heart by Saeko Yazaki (Routledge, 2012), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 25, no. 2 (2015): 357-360.
•tThe Comfort of the Mystics (Salwat al-'ārifīn) by Gerhard Bowering and Bilal Orfali (Leiden, Brill: 2013), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31, no. 3 (2014):149-152.
•tThe Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2012), Studies in Religion 43 (2014): 183-185.
•tArabic-English Dictionary of Qur'ānic Usage by Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (Leiden, Brill. 2008), Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 40 (2014): 101-104.
•tRitter, Hellmut. The Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World, and God in the Stories of Farīd Al-Dīn Aṭṭār (Leiden: Brill, 2003), Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36 (2007): 626-627.
•tSaleh, Walid. The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition: The Qur'ān Commentary of Al-Tha'labi (Leiden: Brill, 2003), Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses 35 (2006): 610-611.
•tGianotti, Timothy. Al-Ghazālī's Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul: Unveiling the Esoteric Psychology and Eschatology of the Iḥyā' (Leiden: Brill, 2001), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23, no.1 (Winter 2006): 126-128.
•tCoates, Peter. Ibn Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously (Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2002), Journal of Religion and Society 7 (2005).
•tMeri, Josef. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21, No. 4 (Fall 2005): 133-136.
•tChittick, William. Mulla Sadra, The Elixir of the Gnostics: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2003), American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21, no.1 (Winter 2004): 127-130
Research Interests
Islamic Mystical Thought
Islamic Theology and Philosophy
Comparative Mysticism
The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition
Islamic Theology and Philosophy
Comparative Mysticism
The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition