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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulamī. I.B. Tauris, London, 2024.
Treatises on the Sufi Way, by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge. Under contract; initial manuscript submitted 12 November 2021; in editing.
Special Issue: 800th Anniversary of the Encounter between Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil. The Muslim World 109, nos. 1-2 (2019). Co-edited with Fareed Z. Munir.
Catholicism Opening to the World and Other Confessions: Vatican II and its Impact. Co-edited with Vladimir Latinovic and Gerard Mannion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018.
Catholicism Engaging Other Faiths: Vatican II and its Impact. Co-edited with Vladimir Latinovic and Gerard Mannion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018.
ARTICLES
“A Christian Reading of the Qurʾān.” In Transforming Interreligious Encounter. Ed. Peter C. Phan and Anh Tran, forthcoming.
“Cristo e i cristiani nell’opera letteraria del maestro ṣūfī al-Sulamī.” Islamochristiana 48 (2022): 229-44.
“Amici tutti?: Pope Francis and the Rhetoric of Interreligious Friendship.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 32, no. 2 (2022): 155-74. doi.org/10.2143/sid.32.2.3291407
“Arabic Sources for the Encounter between the Saint and the Sultan: Fakhr al-Fārisī’s Famous Adventure with Francis, or Lack Thereof.” Collectanea (Studia Orientalia Christiana) 48-49 (2015-2016), 7-75.