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Professor Ian Netton

Publications

Books

Islam,Christianity and the Mystic Journey:A Comparative Exploration, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Netton IR (eds) First Paperback edition of Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilisation and Religion, London & New York, Routledge, 2010.

Netton I (eds) Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilisation and Religion, London & New York, Routledge, 2008.

Netton I (eds) Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Four: The Post-Medieval and Early Modern Period., London & New York, Routledge, 2008.

Netton I (eds) Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Three: The Travels of Ibn Battuta, London & New York, Routledge, 2008.

Netton I (eds) Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume One: Medieval Geographers and Travellers, London & New York, Routledge, 2008.

Netton I (eds) Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Two: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, London & New York, Routledge, 2008.

Netton I (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology:Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Three: Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, London & New York, Routledge, 2007.

Netton I (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology:Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought:Volume Two:Revelation and Reason, London & New York, Routledge, 2007.

Netton I (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Four: Eclecticism, Illumination and Reform., London & New York, Routledge, 2007.

Netton I (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume One: Legacies, Translations and Prototypes, London & New York, Routledge, 2007.

Islam, Christianity and Tradition: A Comparative Exploration, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

with ZS Salhi, The Arab Diaspora: Voices of an Anguished Scream, London & New York: Routledge, 2006.

Chapters

Ibn Battuta in Wanderland: Voyage as Text.Was Ibn Battuta an Orientalist?, in Netton I (eds) Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage., London & New York: Routledge, 2012

Majlis Readings in the Golden Age of Islam: Text and Intertext, in Gleave R (eds) Books and Bibliophiles: Studies in the Bio-Bibliography of the Muslim World, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2012

Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind, in Suleiman Y (eds) Living Islamic History, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 178-191 {Also part of bibliography pp.279-307}

Private Caves and Public Islands: Islam, Plato and the Ikhwan al-Safa'{Reprint of RAE article}, in Elkaisy-Friemuth M,Dillon JM (eds) The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul:Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009, 107-120

The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'in the History of Ideas in Islam, in El-Bizri N (eds) The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 123-138

A Tale of Three Cities: Al-Farabi and the Path to Perfection, in Netton I (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought: Volume Two, Routledge, 2007, 88-107

Five Textbooks in Search of Being and Reason: Tradition and Continuity in Islamic Philosophy, in Netton IR (eds) Islamic Philosophy and Theology: Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought, Routledge, 2007, 5-27

Journal articles

Exitus and Reditus: Towards a New Islamic Neoplatonic Paradigm, Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity (Canada), vol. 26, 2011

Private Caves and Public Islands: Islam, Plato and the Ikhwan Al-Safa', Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, vol. 15, 2005, 73-87

Clouds, Veils and Nights in Islamic and Christian Mystical Theology, Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity (Canada), vol. 29, no. Summer 2012