Reza Shah-Kazemi

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Books

• Seeing God Everywhere: Qur’anic Perspectives on the Sanctity of Virgin Nature (Cambridge: Muslim Academic Trust, 2021)

• Imam Ali: From Concise History to Timeless Mystery (London: Matheson Trust, 2019)

• A Muslim Perspective on Christian Mysteries: The Incarnation and the Crucifixion (Edmonton: Chester Ronning Centre, 2015)

• The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012)

• Spiritual Quest: Reflections on Qur’anic Prayer according to the teachings of Imam Ali (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011)

• Common Ground between Islam and Buddhism (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2010). Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. (Translated into French, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Malay)

• My Mercy Encompasses All—The Koran’s Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love (Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007)

• Paths to Transcendence—According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart  (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 2006)

• Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali (London: IB Tauris/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2006)

• The Other in the Light of the One: The Universality of the Qur’an and Interfaith Dialogue (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2006)

• Avicenna: Prince of Physicians (London: Hood Hood Books, 1997).

• Crisis in Chechnia: Russian Imperialism, Chechen Nationalism and Militant Sufism (London: Islamic World Report, 1995)

 

Articles and Chapters 

• ‘The Dalai Lama and the Dynamics of Dialogue’, in Report of the London Conference: The Legacy, Reincarnation and Geopolitics of the Dalai Lama in a Contested World (London: The Institute of Tibetan Affairs, 2026).

• ‘Compassionate Ethics and Contemplative Dynamics: Some Observations on Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra and Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn’s Makārik al-akhlāq’, in Stephen E. Harris & Perry Schmidt-Leukel (eds), Śāntideva and the Dynamics of Tradition: Doctrinal, Social, and Interreligious Contexts (London: Bloomsbury, 2026).

• ‘Interview with Reza Shah-Kazemi [on the philosophy of peace in Islam]’ conducted by R. Daghestani in Falsafa: Yearbook for Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Jahrbuch für islamische Religionsphilosophie: Freiden in Vielfalt, Eine interdisziplinare Spurensuche [Peace in Diversity: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Traces], ed. Ahmad Milad Karimi (Münster: Verlag Karl Alber, 2026).

• ‘Atheism and Esoterism: A Muslim Perspective’, in Anthony Carroll & Richard Norman (eds.), Religion and Atheism in Dialogue: Doing Difference Differently (London & New York: Routledge, 2025).

• ‘Mothers of the Book: Mary and Fāṭima’, in Peter M. Tyler (ed.), Dialogues, Disputes and Dreams among Jews, Christians and Muslims (London: St Mary’s University Press, 2024).

• ‘Comparative Compassion: Muslim and Buddhist Perspectives on Soteriology as Upāya’, in Melanie Barbato, Mathias Schneider, Fabian Völker (eds), Beyond Boundaries: Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2024).

• ‘Spiritual Ecology: Qur’anic Perspectives’, Keynote Address, in Islam-Buddhism Eco Dialogue: Applications of Religion and Science to Ecology and Sustainability, eds. Osman Bakar & Azizan Baharuddin (Kuala Lumpur: Center for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya et al, 2023).

• ‘Ars Sine Scientia? Integral Aesthetics and Islamic Metaphysics’ in Knowledge, Tradition and Civilization: Essays in Honour of Professor Osman Bakar, ed. Khairuddin Aljunied (Oldham: Beacon Books, 2022).

• ‘From Karmic Implication to Spiritual Resolution: Groundhog Day Revisited’ in Temenos Academic Review, no. 25, 2022.

• ‘Forgiveness in Islam: From Prophetic Practice to Divine Principle’, in Forgiveness in Practice, ed. Stephen Hance (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019).

• ‘Divine Beauty and Human Flourishing: Reflections on Miroslav Volf’s Vision of the Good Life’ in Envisioning the Good Life: Essays on God, Christ, and Human Flourishing, In Honour of Miroslav Volf, eds. Matthew Croasmun, Zoran Grozdanov, & Ryan McAnnally-Linz (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017).

• ‘Blessing the Prophet: Purifying the Heart’ in Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no. 33, Aug, 2014, pp. 139­−166.

• The Metaphysics of Oneness and Sanctifying Love in Islamic Mysticism, in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Perspectives on the Love of God, ed. Sheelah Trefle-Hidden (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).

• ‘Many Mansions in My Father’s House: A Qur’anic Interpretation’ in The Beauty of God’s House: Essays in Honour of Stratford Caldecott, ed. Francesca A. Murphy (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014).

• ‘A Response to N.T. Wright’s: “Death, Resurrection and Human Destiny in the Bible”, in D. Marshall, L. Mosher (eds) Death Resurrection and Human Destiny (Georgetown University Press, 2014).

•  ‘Universal Themes in a Contemporary Classic of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism’ in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no. 32, 2014.

• ‘The Wisdom of Gratitude in Islam’ in Roger Walsh (ed.), The World’s Great Wisdom: Timeless Teachings from Religions and Philosophies (New York: SUNY Press, 2014).

• ‘A Qur’anic Theology of Prayer’, in David Marshall and Lucinda Mosher (eds.), Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013).

• ‘Beyond Polemics and Pluralism: The Universal Message of the Qur’an’, in Mohammad Hassan Khalil, ed. Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (Oxford University Press, 2013).

• ‘Bob Dylan’s Search for the Sacred: From “It’s alright Ma” to “I believe in you” (translated into German), in Knut Wenzel (ed.), Code of the Road: Dylan interpretiert (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2013).

• ‘Do Muslims and Christians believe in the same God?' in Miroslav Volf, ed., Do We Worship the Same God? Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: William b. Eerdsmans Publishing Company: 2012).

• Preface to Martin Lings, La Mecque: Des origines à nos jours (Wattrelos: Editions Tasnim, 2012)

• “Al-tasawwur al-muqaddas li’l-‘adl” (Arabic translation of an article "A Sacred Conception of Justice: Imam Ali’s Letter to Malik al-Ashtar") in the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue’s journal Religions, no.3, 2012.

• “Avant-propos” an introduction (translated into French by Ghislain Chetan) to Frithjof Schuon’s “La Connaissance du Soi et le lecteur occidental” in La lampe de la Connaissance non-duelle/La crème de la Libération, Swami Sri Karapatra and Swami Tandavaraya (trans. Ghislain Chetan) (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012). 

• “The Use of Scripture in A Common Word”, in Communicating the Word: Revelation, Translation and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam, ed. David Marshall (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011).

• “Ali b. Abi Talib—Biography”, in Encyclopaedia Islamica (Brill: Leiden, 2011), vol. 3

• “Ali b. Abi Talib—Mysticism” (with Mohammad-Reza Jozi) in Ibid

•  “Martin Lings: The Sanctity of Sincerity” in Temenos Academic Review, no.14, 2011.

• “Environmentalism from an Islamic Perspective: A Qur’anic Response to An Inconvenient Truth” in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no.27, June, 2011.

• “Loving Compassion in Islam and Buddhism: Rahma and Karuna” in Religions—A Scholarly Journal (no.1, 2011).

• “Tolerance” in A. Sajoo (ed.) A Companion to Muslim Ethics (London: IB Tauris, 2010).

• “Muhammad Iqbal and Ecumenism”, in M. S. Umar and B. B. Koshul (eds.), Muhammad Iqbal—A Contemporary (Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2010).

• “Going Home: Reflections on the Death and Life of Hasan Charles Le Gai Eaton”, in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no. 25, 2010.

• “Light upon Light? The Qur’an and the Gospel of St John”, in Catherine Cornille & Christopher Conway (eds), Interreligious Hermeneutics (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2010).

• “God ‘The Loving’”, in A Common Word––Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbour (eds. Miroslav Volf, Ghazi bin Muhammad, Melissa Yarrington) (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdsman Publishing Co, 2010).

• “Civilizational Dialogue and Mysticism: The Holy Qur’an and the Metaphysics of Ibn al-‘Arabi”, in al-Taqrib—A Journal of Islamic Unity, no.5, 2009.

• ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri’, encyclopaedia entry in Encyclopaedia Islamica, vol.1, 2008.

• ‘Abd al-Quddus Ganguhi’, encyclopaedia entry in Encyclopaedia Islamica, vol.1, 2008.

• “Illumination and Non-delimitation: Lessons for Inter- and Intra-faith Dialogue from the Wisdom of the Prophet”, in The Religious Other—Towards a Muslim Theology of Other Religions in a Post-Prophetic Age, ed. Muhammad Suheyl Umar (Lahore: Iqbal Academy, 2008).

• “Traditional Action in the Contemporary World”, in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no.19, June, 2007.

• “Theocentric Ethics in Islam: From Spiritual Consciousness to Moral Conscience” in A Catholic-Shia Engagement. Faith and Reason in Theory and Practice, eds. Anthony O’Mahony, Wulstan Peterburs and Mohammad Ali Shomali (London: Melisende, 2006).

• “Ali b. Abi Talib”, Encyclopaedia of Religion, 2nd edition, vol.1, 2005.

• “Tabataba’i, ‘Allama”, (co-authored with Mohammad Jafar Elmi) Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, vol.13, 2005.

• “A Truly Holy Soul—A Tribute to Martin Lings, 1909-2005”, in QNews, no. 263, June, 2005.

• “A Message of Hope at the Eleventh Hour—Martin Lings, 1909-2005”, in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no.15, June 2005.

• “From the Spirituality of Jihad to the Ideology of Jihadism”, in Seasons, Journal of the Zaytuna Institute, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring-Summer, 2005.

• “Defining Without Confining—Reflections on a Prophetic Usage of Sacred Space”, in Interreligious Insight, vol.3, no.3, July 2005.

• “The Principle and the Practice of the Remembrance of God—An Islamic Perspective”, in Catholics and Shi’a in Dialogue, eds. Antony O’Mahoney, Wulstan Peterburs and Mohammad Ali Shomali (London, Melisende, 2004).

• “Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad”, in Islam, Fundamentalism and the Betrayal of Tradition, ed. Joseph Lumbard (Bloomington, IN., World Wisdom, 2004).

• “Divine Beatitude: Supreme Archetype of Aesthetic Experience”, in Seeing God Everywhere—Essays on Nature and the Sacred, ed. Barry McDonald (Bloomington, IN., World Wisdom, 2003).

• “The Eye and the Wood: An Analogy which explains ‘all that I have ever preached about’,” in The Eckhart Review, no.12, Spring 2003.

• “Imam Ali b. Abi Talib and the Remembrance of God”, in Beacon of Knowledge—Essays in Honour of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. M. Faghfoory (Louisville, Fons Vitae, 2003).

• “The Metaphysics of Interfaith Dialogue: A Qur’anic Perspective”, in Paths to the Heart—Sufism and the Christian East, ed. James Cutsinger (World Wisdom, 2002).

• “A Sacred Conception of Justice in the Letter of Imam Ali to Malik al-Ashtar”, in Sophia, vol. 8, no. 2, 2002.

• “Reflections on The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr: The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. XXVIII”, in Sophia, vol. 8, no. 2, 2002.

• “The Notion and Significance of Ma'rifa in Sufism”, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol.13, no.2, 2002.

• “Selfhood and Compassion: Jesus in the Qur'an—An Akbari Perspective”, in The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, vol. 29, 2001.

• “Tradition as Spiritual Function: A Perennialist Perspective”, in Sacred Web—A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, no.7, 2001.

• “A Tribute to Martin Lings on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday”, Sophia, vol.5, no.2, 1999.

• “The Role of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Piety”, in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Problems and Possibilities, edited by Darrol Bryant and S. A. Ali  (St Paul, Minnesota, Paragon House, 1998).

• “Frithjof Schuon and Prayer”, in Sophia, vol.4, no.2, 1998.

• “Transcendence and Immanence: Common Themes in Eckhart, Shankara and Ibn Arabi”, in The Eckhart Review, no.6, 1997.