Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Works by
Joseph Kenny, O.P.

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General Studies

• Philosophy of the Muslim World   A history and thematic study of the ideas of the major philosophers of the medieval Muslim world, making use of new Arabic editions of their works published in the last decades of the 20^th century.
• La philosophie du monde musulmane: Auteurs et thèmes principaux   The same book in French.
• Bibliography of the works of the philosophers of the Muslim world   A comprehensive list of all the known works of 16 philosophers, together with publications in the original language and in translation.
• The chronology of the works of Ibn-Rushd   An update of al-`Alawî's pioneering work, taking into account the works surviving only in Latin or Hebrew. You need the font "Bwgrkl" to read this: ttfonts.zip.
• The human intellect: The journey of an idea from Aristotle to Ibn-Rushd   First published in Orita 30 (1998), 65-84, this is a further study of what was presented in chapter 4 of Philosophy of the Muslim World. To read many of the footnotes, you need the font "Bwgrkn". Download ttfonts.zip.
• Muslim theology as presented by Muhammad ibn-Yûsuf as-Sanûsî   My Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1970, done under Prof. W. Montgomery Watt. A study of his life, time and works, with a critical edition and translation of his متن العقيدة الوسطى and a presentation of the theology contained in his accompanying commentary.
• Islamic monotheism: Principles and consequences   A study of the way a particular way of understanding analogy led Ash`arite theologians to a position of strict occasionalism. First published by Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, in Christianity and Islam in dialogue (Cape Coast, 1987), 139-149.
• Common themes of Islamic and Christian theology   A side by side study of five themes that have agitated Muslim and Christian thought over the centuries. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 1997 & 2000.
• Jesus and Mary in Islam – a Christian look   What the Qur’ân and Hadîth (tradition) say, what Muslim apologetics makes of him, negatively or positively, how Christians variously react to Muslim Christology, and what principles underlie the differences between Islam and Christianity regarding what Jesus is. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 2000, reprinting publications elsewhere of the two parts.
• Sacrifice: Philosophical, theological and comparative probes   Published in ORITA, 20:2, 1988, pp. 127-137.
• The relevance of theology to the ordinary life of Nigerians in Nigeria   Published in ORITA, 14:2 (1982), 154-159.
• The sources of radical movements in Islam   The theological origin of contemporary Islamicist thinking. Published in Skepticos, n. 1 (1990), 19-22.
• Aux sources des mouvements radicaux dans l'Islam   The French original of the above article, published in Cahiers des Religions Africaines: Kinshasa, Centre d'Etudes des Religions Africaines, 23, n. 45-46 (1989), 135-140.
• Medicine in Islam   A historical and theological analysis of Muslim attitudes to medicine, together with a study of the concrete forms of religious medical practice among Muslims in Nigeria.
• Rhetorical structure in the Qur'ân   With Michel Cuypers, on chiastic structure found in the Psalms and in the Qur'ân. Published in Orita 32 (2000).

Texts

• Al-Fârâbî and the contingency argument for God's existence: a study of Risâla Zaynûn al-kabîr al-yûnânî   Originally published in Orita 28 (1996), 50-69.
• Ibn-Sînâ on the human soul, in Notes and observations on natural science, Book II, Section 5   Originally published in Orita, 29, 68-98, this develops a theme contained in chapter 4 of my Philosophy of the Muslim World
• Ibn-Masarra: His Risâla al-i`tibâr   Forthcoming in Orita, this is a study of the teachings of Ibn-Masarra's only two surviving works, with the text and translation of one of them.
• The Sources of Religion: كتاب أصول الدين , translation   The short catechism, Usûl ad-dîn, by Usman dan Fodiye, the founder of the Sokoto caliphate (Nigeria) in the beginning of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.
• The Muqaddima: متن المقدمة , translation   A critical edition and translation of the text of the “Introduction” to theology by Muhammad ibn-Yûsuf as-Sanûsî (d. 1490). Published in Hamdard Islamicus 23:2 (April-June 2000), 31-40.
• The Small Catechism: متن العقيدة الصغرى , translation   The text and translation of the short catechism, Al-`Aqîda as-sughrâ, by Muhammad ibn-Yûsuf as-Sanûsî, a work which has been very widespread in North and West Africa for several centuries. Published in Hamdard Islamicus 13:4 (1990), 49-64