Joseph E B Lumbard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph E B Lumbard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph E B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lumbard |
| SIGNATURE | LUMBARD J E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8676-3699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Islam, coloniality, and the pedagogy of cognitive liberation in higher education
Eurocentric intellectual dominance within the academic study of Islam marginalizes Islamic epistemologies, perpetuating an intellectual hierarchy that undermines Islamic traditions and their attendant educational systems. Such imbalance, both in the West and in Muslim communities, discourages critical heuristic engagement with the rich intellectual heritage of Islam. This is a missed opportunity, as Islamic intellectual traditions, particularly i…
Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s al-Tajrīd fī Kalimat al-Tawḥīd: “A Primer on the Statement of Tawḥīd”
This article presents an introduction to and the first complete English translation of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s (d. 517/1123 or 520/1126), al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd , his most widely received Arabic text. The title has a double entendre, meaning both “A Primer on the Statement of Tawḥīd,” and “Disengaging Through the Statement of Tawḥīd.” It is designed to serve both purposes. The first half provides a spiritual typography, juxtaposing “the people…
Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty
The search for knowledge has been central to the Islamic tradition from its inception in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (aḥādīth). The injunctions to obtain knowledge and contemplate the signs of God in all things undergird a culture of ultimate questions in which there was an underlying epistemic unity among all fields of knowledge, from the religious sciences to the intellectual sciences to the natural sciences. Having lost s…
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies
The legacy of colonialism continues to influence the analysis of the Qurʾan in the Euro-American academy. While Muslim lands are no longer directly colonized, intellectual colonialism continues to prevail in the privileging of Eurocentric systems of knowledge production to the detriment and even exclusion of modes of analysis that developed in the Islamic world for over a thousand years. This form of intellectual hegemony often results in a multi…
Response to Karen Bauer’s Review of The Study Quran: By Maria Dakake and Joseph E.B. Lumbard. General Editors, The Study Quran
In her review of The Study Quran in AJISS (34:4), Karen Bauer makes anumber of broad claims about the authors’ ideology and methodology, particularlyin producing the commentary that accompanies the translation.Her claims regarding the commentary, however, seem to be based on alimited reading of the text, which has led her to make a number of otherwiseinexplicable factual errors. For example, in assessing the SQ authors’selection, use, and represe…
Ahmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love
Covenant and Covenants in the Qur'an
The question of the covenant in the Old and New Testaments was among the most fertile topics for critically engaged Jewish-Christian dialogue in the twentieth century and has given rise to more pluralistic readings of both the Old and New Testaments. But such developments have not occurred in the field of Qur'anic Studies. Nonetheless, the idea of the covenant is central to the Qur'anic conception of humanity and of religious history. Discussions…
From Hubb to lhringIshq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism
From the first centuries of Islam until today, love has been a central theme of Sufi literature. Sufi poems and sayings from the early Islamic period focus upon the words ḥubb and maḥabba, presenting God as the Divine beloved and the spiritual wayfarer as the lover. They thus posit a duality between the lover and the beloved. In the later Persian Sufi tradition, beginning with Saw~niḥ of Aḥmad al-Ghaz~l‚ (d. 517/1123), many Sufis move from the us…
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al‐Qudat Al‐Hamadani by Hamid Dabashi
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al-Qudat Al-Hamadani by Hamid Dabashi Routledge/Curzon , 1999 Often relegated to the third figure in the mystic-martyr triad Hallaj-Suhrawardi-Hamadani, the ink of Western scholars has done little to clarify the life, times and teachings of ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani (1098–1131). Unfortunately, this first full-length monograph on the famous Persian mystic takes us a step in the wrong direction. In his…
From Hubb to lhringIshq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism
From the first centuries of Islam until today, love has been a central theme of Sufi literature. Sufi poems and sayings from the early Islamic period focus upon the words ḥubb and maḥabba, presenting God as the Divine beloved and the spiritual wayfarer as the lover. They thus posit a duality between the lover and the beloved. In the later Persian Sufi tradition, beginning with Saw~niḥ of Aḥmad al-Ghaz~l‚ (d. 517/1123), many Sufis move from the us…
Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty
The search for knowledge has been central to the Islamic tradition from its inception in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (aḥādīth). The injunctions to obtain knowledge and contemplate the signs of God in all things undergird a culture of ultimate questions in which there was an underlying epistemic unity among all fields of knowledge, from the religious sciences to the intellectual sciences to the natural sciences. Having lost s…
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies
The legacy of colonialism continues to influence the analysis of the Qurʾan in the Euro-American academy. While Muslim lands are no longer directly colonized, intellectual colonialism continues to prevail in the privileging of Eurocentric systems of knowledge production to the detriment and even exclusion of modes of analysis that developed in the Islamic world for over a thousand years. This form of intellectual hegemony often results in a multi…
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al‐Qudat Al‐Hamadani by Hamid Dabashi
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al-Qudat Al-Hamadani by Hamid Dabashi Routledge/Curzon , 1999 Often relegated to the third figure in the mystic-martyr triad Hallaj-Suhrawardi-Hamadani, the ink of Western scholars has done little to clarify the life, times and teachings of ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani (1098–1131). Unfortunately, this first full-length monograph on the famous Persian mystic takes us a step in the wrong direction. In his…
From Hubb to lhringIshq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism
From the first centuries of Islam until today, love has been a central theme of Sufi literature. Sufi poems and sayings from the early Islamic period focus upon the words ḥubb and maḥabba, presenting God as the Divine beloved and the spiritual wayfarer as the lover. They thus posit a duality between the lover and the beloved. In the later Persian Sufi tradition, beginning with Saw~niḥ of Aḥmad al-Ghaz~l‚ (d. 517/1123), many Sufis move from the us…
Covenant and Covenants in the Qur'an
The question of the covenant in the Old and New Testaments was among the most fertile topics for critically engaged Jewish-Christian dialogue in the twentieth century and has given rise to more pluralistic readings of both the Old and New Testaments. But such developments have not occurred in the field of Qur'anic Studies. Nonetheless, the idea of the covenant is central to the Qur'anic conception of humanity and of religious history. Discussions…
Ahmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love
Response to Karen Bauer’s Review of The Study Quran: By Maria Dakake and Joseph E.B. Lumbard. General Editors, The Study Quran
In her review of The Study Quran in AJISS (34:4), Karen Bauer makes anumber of broad claims about the authors’ ideology and methodology, particularlyin producing the commentary that accompanies the translation.Her claims regarding the commentary, however, seem to be based on alimited reading of the text, which has led her to make a number of otherwiseinexplicable factual errors. For example, in assessing the SQ authors’selection, use, and represe…
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies
The legacy of colonialism continues to influence the analysis of the Qurʾan in the Euro-American academy. While Muslim lands are no longer directly colonized, intellectual colonialism continues to prevail in the privileging of Eurocentric systems of knowledge production to the detriment and even exclusion of modes of analysis that developed in the Islamic world for over a thousand years. This form of intellectual hegemony often results in a multi…
Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s al-Tajrīd fī Kalimat al-Tawḥīd: “A Primer on the Statement of Tawḥīd”
This article presents an introduction to and the first complete English translation of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s (d. 517/1123 or 520/1126), al-Tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd , his most widely received Arabic text. The title has a double entendre, meaning both “A Primer on the Statement of Tawḥīd,” and “Disengaging Through the Statement of Tawḥīd.” It is designed to serve both purposes. The first half provides a spiritual typography, juxtaposing “the people…
Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty
The search for knowledge has been central to the Islamic tradition from its inception in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (aḥādīth). The injunctions to obtain knowledge and contemplate the signs of God in all things undergird a culture of ultimate questions in which there was an underlying epistemic unity among all fields of knowledge, from the religious sciences to the intellectual sciences to the natural sciences. Having lost s…
Islam, coloniality, and the pedagogy of cognitive liberation in higher education
Eurocentric intellectual dominance within the academic study of Islam marginalizes Islamic epistemologies, perpetuating an intellectual hierarchy that undermines Islamic traditions and their attendant educational systems. Such imbalance, both in the West and in Muslim communities, discourages critical heuristic engagement with the rich intellectual heritage of Islam. This is a missed opportunity, as Islamic intellectual traditions, particularly i…
Philosophy (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works)