General

• Islamic Studies: Programmes and literature review   An orientation for anyone devising programmes of Islamic studies for Christians at beginning or advanced levels, and a guide for anyone wanting to learn about Islam at any level.
• "Among Muslims"   A popular series of 108 newspaper articles dealing with questions Christians ask about Islam. These and a few other works on this site were published in Ibadan in The Catholic Weekly Independent.
• Early Islam  Background, the Life of Muhammad, the Umayyyad and `Abbâsid Caliphates, Echoes Today. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 1997.

Africa

• West Africa and Islam  Written on behalf of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Commission of AECAWA (The Association of Episcopal Conferences of West Africa), it contains 45 lessons on all aspects of Islam necessary for a Christian lay person in West Africa to know.
• Le clé du dialogue avec nos frères musulmans   A French version of the previous work, except that the chapters on West Africa are reduced in favor of coverage of Africa as a whole. Done for a course at Les Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa. Preface by Frédéric ETSOU, Archbishop of Kinshasa.
• Religious movements in Nigeria: divisive or cohesive: Some interpretative models   Published in Orita 16:2, December 1984, 111-128.
• Arab Aid and Influence in Tropical Africa   Written for Consultation of the Christian Councils in West Africa on Christian-Muslim Relations, Monrovia, 25-28 November 1984. Published in Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue (Cape Coast, 1987), pp. 77-83.
• Sharî`a and Islamic revival in Nigeria   A history of Sharî`a in Nigeria and a survey of the different Muslim organisations and interests at the present time. Published many times over, as the first note indicates, and together with the following:
• Islamic revival in confrontation with Christians   A survey of the debate about Sharî`a and membership in the O.I.C. Much of this and the previous article were published as "Sharî`a and Christianity in Nigeria: Islam and a 'secular' state," Journal of Religion in Africa, 26:4, 338-364.
• Nigeria Chronicle   Studies on Christian-Muslim relations and dialogue from 1966 to the present.

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• Islamic Ethics: What the Qur'ân says  A systematic summary of Qur'ânic teaching, with verse references. This can be compared with The ethics of war and peace emerging from the the Sîra of Ibn-Ishâq, the earliest biographer of Muhammad, and Paul's ethics, in which I summarize J. Fitzmeyer, New Jerome Biblical Commentary. For the latter you need the font Bwgrkn.
• The Risâla  An annotated translation of the treatise on Mâlikî Law of `Abdallâh Ibn-abî-Zayd al-Qayrawânî. This work of fiqh is an elaboration of Islamic ethics based on Hadîth as well as the Qur'ân.
  
• Basic Practices of Islam and Christianity  A presentation of the "five pillars" and marriage, summarizing the contents of the Risâla, along with corresponding Christian practices.
• Islamic Sufism: Experience and organization  A survey of its history, with a study of the stages of dhikr and spiritual growth as presented by several Sufi theorists.
• Pornography: Islamic and Christian perspectives  Delivered at seminar organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, and published in Youth & pornography, ed. D.C.E. Ugwuegbu & B.U. Eke, a publication of the National Orientation Movement, Federal Ministry of Information & Culture, Lagos, 1989, pp. 47-60.
• Cults and occultism  A talk delivered to the Muslim Students Society, University of Ibadan, 19 July 1997.
• Power in Islam  A comparitive examination of how different religions relate to power, showing how political and spiritual power are often at odds in Islamic society.
• Le recherche de Dieu parmi les Musulmans  A talk on Sufism given in Kinshasa.
• Christianity, Islam and the social order  The philosophical suppositions leading to divergent views of society in the two religions. Delivered in Lagos at National Interfaith Conference, 24 June 2000
• The push for Sharî`a  A talk on the Muslim programme, "Trends and Perspectives", M.I.T.V. Lagos, aired 20 August 2000
• Islam: authentic or fanatical  A paper given at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, 8 June 2002, at Purdue University.

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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

Views on Muslim-Christian relations   Religious freedom in Christian and Muslim thought, the possibility of salvation for the other, and principles of dialogue. My own essays with key documents on the topics.

Foi chrétienne en dialogue avec l'Islam   Delivered at the Semaine Théologique, Kinshasa (prescribed title), and published Quelle Eglise pour l'Afrique du troisième millenaire? Actes du XVIIIe Semaine Théologique de Kinshasa (Kinshasa. Les Facultés Catholiques, 1991), 165-184. An English version is incorporated in the above book.

Thomas Aquinas: Reasons for the Faith against Muslim objections   (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians), to the Cantor of Antioch. Introduction and translation, first published in Islamochristiana (Rome), 22 (1996), 31-52.

Designing courses on dialogue   First published in Orita, 18:2 (December 1986), 103-106, this is a collaborated work with my late collegue, Sam Babs Mala. It is the fruit of our experience in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan.

Meeting in faith, hope and love   Delivered to the Nigerian Conference of Women Religious, January 1988, published in Akéde Ìgbàgbó, 2 (1989), 24-26, it analyses Christian-Muslim relations from the standpoint of the three theological virtues.

The Holy Spirit: What He can mean to Muslims   Given at meeting of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, Enugu, 22 October 1997 on the occasion of the "year of the Holy Spirit". Compare with God the Father, prepared for 1999, the "year of the Father".

Comparative concepts and hermeneutics in the Bible and the Qur'ân   For a course given at the University of Ibadan.

Chrétiens en dialogue avec Musulmans   Written for Colombe, the Kinshasa Dominican publication.

The dynamism of Islam in West Africa   Delivered at AECAWA Plenary Assembly, 1986, utilized to compose the following article:

The challenge of Islam in Nigeria   Published in West African Journal of Ecclesial Studies, 4 (1992), 46-58.

Facing ethnicity and religion: A concern in Nigerian education   Given at U.I. Conference Centre Seminar, Feb. 1997, and published in E.E. Uwazie, I.O. Albert & G.N. Uzoigwe, Inter-ethnic and religious conflict resolution in Nigeria (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Lexington Books, 1999), Chapter 5, pp. 49-56.

Peace among people of different religions   Delivered to an inter-religious gathering at Parliament House, Ibadan, Nov. 1996.

Islam and Church witness in the 21st century   Given at the CAPA [Conference of Anglican Provinces of Africa] New Bishops' Training Course, Ibadan, 5 June 1999).

Dialogue: the solution or the problem?   Written in 2000 to address issues raised in an article by Muhammad Talbi.

Reconciliation for Nigeria   Delivered at monthly forum of Catholic Secretariat, Lagos, 14 May 2000

Rapport with Muslims   To the laity of Ijebu-Ode diocese, at Diocesan Inter-religious Dialogue Commission seminar, 25 August 2001

Biblical & Liturgical

• The Psalms   A new translation, a new format, graphically displaying the symetrical pattern of the Psalms –with links to the Hebrew (revised August 2001).
• Daily Psalms and Canticles in their original languages   The Psalms and Canticles according to the arrangement of the Breviary, also in an indented format displaying the symmetrical pattern of these texts –with links to the English (revised August 2001).
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• The Psalms in Hausa; The Canticles in Hausa   The Psalms and Canticles in Hausa, a new (2001) translation by Musa Danjuma and Joseph Kenny, O.P. (the same who translated the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible published by the Bible Society), following the format of the Hebrew and English editions above. To read it, download the font Hausa.zip.
  
• St. Albert the Great's Commentary on the Psalms    Introduction and Psalms 1-5, 8, 23, 45, 51, 58, 72, 76, 110, 118, 130, 133, 136-138, 140, 142, 146-150 (Heb. numeration).
• Powerful titles of Jesus in the Bible   Like the great number of Muslim devotional works on the 99 names of God, this work is a complete Christology in prayer form, meditating on 101 names of Jesus in the Bible.
• Stations of the Passion and Resurrection   Fourteen of each, with Gospel summaries, Psalm verses and hymns. Meant to provide a solidly Biblical meditation, together with all the devotional impact of the familiar “Stations of the Cross”.
• Various hymns   for the Office and Mass.

Historical

• The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850 (Ibadan University Press & Dominican Publications, 1982)   For this middle period of African Christian history there is hardly anything in English except for a few specialized articles. The material is vast enough to write many detailed volumes. This general survey, with perhaps a little greater concentration on the Nigerian material has as its aim to present a factual account, telling all that is of interest, whether to the glory or the shame of the Church, with no apologetic tidying up of history.
• A seventeenth century Belgian visitor to Agadez and the north of Nigeria: Pieter Fardé   An expanded study of a person mentioned in Chapter 5 of the previous work, published in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 10:4 (1981), 73-89.
• A documentary history of the Catholic Church in Nigeria: 1445-1850   A companion volume to The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850, in contains 144 documents in their original languages, together with English translation.
• Church contextualization in Nigeria, 1970-1990   A reworking for publication of a paper given at the AECAWA Inter-Religious Dialogue Commission seminar at Ikeja, Lagos, April 1993, in collaboration with Segun A. Taiwo, O.P. and Paul Bola Oye, O.P.
• The Lives of the Brethren (Vitas Fratrum)   Translation of the 13^th century work of Gerald de Frachet on the early Dominicans.

Theological Essays

• The spiritualist heresy   Published in Skepticos, n. 5 (1995), 42-43.
• Prophets who attack tha Catholic Church   What to make of their "miracles". Published serially in Independent, newspaper of the Ibadan Archdiocese.

Joseph Kenny

O.P.