Yousef Casewit

Biographic Data

ID1205161
NAMEYousef Casewit
GIVEN NAMESYousef
FAMILY NAMECasewit
SIGNATURECASEWIT Y
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Blessed Tree in the works of Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141)

    Open AccessSam Jaffe, S N Jaffe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2023

    In his commentary on the Light Verse (Q. 24:35), the Andalusian mystic and Qurʾān exegete Abū al-Ḥakam Ibn Barrajān (d. 1141) presents the blessed tree (al-shajara al-mubāraka) not simply as a terrestrial olive tree in Syria or even as a mystical allegory, but as the ultimate locus of divine disclosure and the highest metaphysical entity in the cosmos that subsumes the world of creation. This article assesses the originality of Ibn Barrajān’s con…

  • Al-Ghazālī’s Virtue Ethical Theory of the Divine Names

    Open AccessYousef CasewitARTICLEJournal of Islamic Ethics2020

    Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s (d. 505/1111) al-Maqṣad al-Asnā fī Sharḥ Maʿānī Asmāʾ Allāh al-Ḥusnā (“The Highest Aim in Explaining the Meanings of God’s Most Beautiful Names”) is more than just a commentary on the ninety-nine names of God. In setting out to expound on a virtue ethical theory of the divine names, the Maqṣad in effect amounts to a sustained theological meditation upon one of the most fundamental paradoxes of monotheism: how to locate and …

  • Shushtarī's Treatise on the Limits of Theology and Sufism

    Open AccessYousef CasewitARTICLEReligions2020Cited by: 1References: 13

    Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī's (d. 668/1269) heretofore unedited and unstudied treatise, "On the Limits [of Theology and Sufism]" (R. al-Quṣāriyya) is a succinct account of the celebrated Andalusī Sufi poet's understanding of the relationship between discursive knowledge (ʿilm) of the rational Ashʿarite theologians, direct and unitive recognition (maʿrifa) of the Sufis, and verified knowledge (taḥqīq) of the monist Realizers. Following a broad discus…

  • The Mystics of al-Andalus

    Open AccessYousef CasewitBOOKMystics of Al-Andalus2017

    The twelfth century CE was a watershed moment for mysticism in the Muslim West. In al-Andalus, the pioneers of this mystical tradition, the Mu'tabirun or 'Contemplators', championed a synthesis between Muslim scriptural sources and Neoplatonic cosmology. Ibn Barrajān of Seville was most responsible for shaping this new intellectual approach, and is the focus of Yousef Casewit's book. Ibn Barrajān's extensive commentaries on the divine names and t…

  • A Muslim Scholar of the Bible

    Open AccessYousef CasewitARTICLEJournal of Qur'anic Studies2016

    The Andalusian mystic and Qur'an commentator Ibn Barrajān (d. 536/1141) was one of the earliest scholars of Islam to use the Arabic Bible extensively and non-polemically in his quest to understand the divine Word. This paper assesses his mode of engagement with the Bible and the different strategies he employed to resolve perceived incongruities between narratives of the Qur'an and the Bible. The Bible enjoys the same degree of interpretive autho…

  • A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141)

    Gerhard Böwering, Gerhard Böwerıng et al.BOOKA Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn…2015

    A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) is a critical Arabic text edition of a medieval Muslim Qurʾān commentary entitled, Īḍāḥ al-ḥikma bi-aḥkām al-ʿibra (Wisdom Deciphered, the Unseen Discovered). The annotated Arabic text is accompanied by an analytical introduction and an extensive subject index. This Qurʾān commentary is Ibn Barrajān's last and most esoteric work, and as such offers the most explicit articulation of his …

  • The Triumph of Mercy

    Yousef CasewitARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…2014