Professor Sajjad Rizvi
Publications
Books
Studies on the Ismailis, London: Tauris in association with the IIS, 2014.
Mulla Sadra and the Later Islamic Philosophical Tradition, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Mir Damad, Oxford, Oneworld, 2013.
Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being, London/Abingdon, Routledge, 2009. Publisher Website
with F Hamza, Understanding the Word of God: An Anthology of Quranic Commentaries, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
with F Hamza, An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries Volume 1: On the Nature of the Divine, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. Publisher Website
Mulla Sadra Shirazi: His Life and Works and the Sources for Safavid Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Chapters
Mulla Sadra's Noetics and Epistemology, in Sebti M,de Smet D (eds) Noetique et connaisance dans la philosophie arabo-musulmane, Paris: Vrin, 2012
Mulla Hadi Sabzavari and the school of Mulla Sadra, in Mervin S,Hermann D (eds) Shi'ism in Modern Times (1800-1925), Beirut/Frankfurt: Deutsches Orientinstitut, 2010
Mīr Dāmād and the Debate on ḥudūṯ-i dahrī in India, in Hermann D,Speziale F (eds) Etudes philosophiques et scientifiques dans le monde irano-indien, Berlin/Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut, 2010, 449-474
Communicating Pure Consciousness Events: Using Izutsu to address a problem in the Philosophy of Mysticism, in Thoha AM (eds) Japanese Contribution to Islamic Studies: The Legacy of Toshihiko Izutsu Interpreted, Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic University Malaysia Press, 2010, 157-170
with O Leaman, The Developed Kalam tradition, in Winter TJ (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 77-96 Publisher Website
(Neo)Platonism Revived in the Light of the Imams: Qadi Sa'id Qummi and his reception of the Theologia Aristotelis , in Adamson P (eds) Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception, Thw Warburgh Institute, 2007, 176-207
Mysticism and philosophy: Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra, in Taylor RC,Adamson P (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 224-246
Au-dela du miroir: Mulla Sadra's pedagogical epistemology, in Smet D,Sebti D,M (eds) Miroir et savoir. La transmission d'un theme platonicien des Alexandrins a la philosophie arabo-musulmane, Leuven: Peeters, 251-271
Ibn 'Arabi, in Rippin A (eds) The Islamic World, New York: Routledge, 366-373
Journal articles
Mir Damad in India: Islamic Philosophical Traditions and the Problem of Creation, J AM ORIENTAL SOC, vol. 131, no. 1, 2011, 9-23
Reality and Realities: Mulla Sadra Shirazi and structure of reality., J ISLAM STUD, vol. 21, no. 1, 2010, 119-122
The Other Shiites: From the Mediterranean to Central Asia, J ISLAM STUD, vol. 21, no. 1, 2010, 122-124 DOI
Political Mobilization and the Shi'i Establishment, International Affairs, vol. 86, no. 6, 2010, 1299-1313
Sayyid Ni'matullah al-Jaza'iri and his Anthologies: Anti-Sufism, Shi'ism and Jokes in the Safavid World, Die Welt des Islams, vol. 50, no. 2, 2010, 224-242 DOI
Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources, SPECULUM, vol. 84, no. 1, 2009, 188-189
Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, J AM ORIENTAL SOC, vol. 127, no. 4, 2007, 536-538
Between Time and Eternity: Mir Damad on God's creative agency, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2006, 158-176 DOI
Time and Creation in Some Safavid Philosophies, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, vol. 62, no. 2, 2006, 713-737
Towards a Typology of Philosophical Inquiry in the Ithna 'Ashariyy Tradition, International Journal of Shi'i Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2006, 189-206
The existential breath of al-rahman and the munificent agency of al-rahim: the Tafsir Surat al-Fatiha of Jami and the School of Ibn 'Arabi', Journal of Qur'anic Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2006, 58-87
Mulla Sadra and causation: Rethinking a problem in later Islamic philosophy, PHILOS EAST WEST, vol. 55, no. 4, 2005, 570-+
A treatise attributed to Shaykh Muhyi al-Din on the Ultimate Reality, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, vol. 25, 2004, 1-24
A primordial e pluribus unum: exegeses on Q.2:213 and modern Muslim discourses on religious pluralism, Journal of Quranic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2004, 21-42
The Soteriology of Wilaya: early tashayyu' and Mulla Sadra, International Journal of Shi'i Studies, vol. 1, 2003, 157-176
Reconsidering the life of Mulla Sadra Shirazi: notes towards an intellectual biography, Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 40, 2002, 181-202
An Islamic subversion of the existence-essence distinction? Suhrawardi's visionary hierarchy of lights, ASIAN PHILOS, vol. 9, no. 3, 1999, 219-227
Ḥikmah mutaʿāliyah in Qajar Iran: Locating the Life and Work of Mullā Hādī Sabzavārī (d. 1289/1873), Iranian Studies, vol. 43
