Ramon Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramon Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramon |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ebrahim College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3783-4490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Al-Māturīdī’s Divine Action Model
Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) is the eponym of the Māturīdī tradition of kalām, one of the recognized theological schools of Sunnī Islam. This article proposes that whereas the classical Māturīdī tradition adopted an occasionalist divine action model (DAM), al-Māturīdī’s own works indicate a distinctive DAM that can best be described as concurrentist. It is grounded in his concept of God’s nature, particularly His attributes of existentiati…
Idealizing the Qur’an
This article addresses a lack of engagement between Husserlian phenomenology and Qur’anic studies by applying Edmund Husserl’s “historical reduction” in his “The Origin of Geometry” essay to early Qur’anic canonization. I start by summarizing recent findings in the field to characterize a basic outline of the “ʿUthmānī canonization event,” the historical occurrence by which the third Islamic caliph, ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān (r. 644–656), oversaw the pro…
Islamic Theology and the Crisis of Contemporary Science
This article evaluates the “metaphysical critique” of contemporary science by the Islamic philosophical theologian Naquib al-Attas in his Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Islām. I argue that al-Attas' critique is dialectically inappropriate because it relies on specific, and non-publicly verifiable, interpretations of revelation and spiritual intuition. I contrast this with the work of Edmund Husserl, especially in his The Crisis of European Scien…
Mistaken Identity
Since the writings of Shiblī Nuʿmānī and A. J. Wensinck in the early twentieth century, scholarship has often questioned the ascription of the creed al-Fiqh al-akbar II to the well-known theologian and jurist Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767). But there has hitherto been little attempt to determine how and when this text entered the Hanafi theological tradition and who its true author was. In this article I show that until the early eighth/fourteenth centu…
Transcendent God, Rational World
Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today
Ḥanafī-Māturīdīsm
First Paragraph: The historical neglect of the Ḥanafī-Māturīdī tradition of Islamic theology in comparison to other schools, especially its closest rival Ashʿarism, is well-rehearsed. A price has been paid for the absence of reliable Arabic editions and translations of many texts, as well as the failure to study the development of the tradition on its own terms and in its interactions with other interlocutors. This state of affairs is starting to…
The Case of the Missing Disciple
Despite recognition of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Rustughfanī (d. ca. 345/956) as the most important student of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944), a sustained treatment of his theological views has not hitherto appeared. One of the challenges that has been identified in prior studies is a lack of primary sources. To overcome this obstacle, I analyse manuscripts of “Bāb al-mutafarriqāt min fawāʾid” and “al-Asʾila wa-l-ajwiba,” two texts recording al-Rustugh…
The sabab - khāṣṣ — ʿāmm Process as an Instructional Technique within Qur'anic Rhetoric
In his al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān, al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) draws attention to a Qur'anic rhetorical device by which an extra-scriptural occasion of revelation ( sabab) causes the placement of a verse with a specific ( khāṣṣ) intent, shifting the composition to a general ( ʿāmm) verse on a related theme. This feature had been previously discussed in texts such as al-Burhān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān by al-Zarkashī (d. 794/1392) and al-Ibhāj fī sharḥ al-m…
Slavery, Indenture, and Freedom
Slavery was a significant part of society within the seventh-century Arabian context of the Qur'an. In this context, Q. 24:33, which has been universally interpreted by Muslim exegetes as the basis for a contract of mukātaba (‘indenture’) that allows slaves to work to pay for their freedom, is a particularly intriguing verse. This article examines the exegesis of Q. 24:33 against the background of the first two centuries of Islam, examining the w…
A Place Between Two Places
‘Subject to us every sea that is on the earth and in the heavens; the dominion and the kingdom; the sea of the lower world and the sea of the Hereafter.’ These lines from the Ḥizb al-baḥr (Litany of the Sea) by the Moroccan Sufi Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 656/1258) provide a point of departure for discussion of George Archer’s monograph A Place Between Two Places. Central to Archer’s thesis is that the Qurʾānic barzakh, a word steeped in symbol…
The Legal Epistemology of Qur'anic Variants
The companion Ibn Masʿūd (d. 32/652–653) has long been recognised for the variance of his Qur'anic qirāʾa (‘reading’, or ‘recitation’) from the canonical ʿUthmānī codex. His reading continued to enjoy popularity for at least a century within Kufa, the place of origin for much of the Ḥanafī madhhab's jurisprudential corpus. This article analyses Masʿūdian variants with legal implications in the doctrine of the early jurist Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī (d. 9…
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The Legal Epistemology of Qur'anic Variants
The companion Ibn Masʿūd (d. 32/652–653) has long been recognised for the variance of his Qur'anic qirāʾa (‘reading’, or ‘recitation’) from the canonical ʿUthmānī codex. His reading continued to enjoy popularity for at least a century within Kufa, the place of origin for much of the Ḥanafī madhhab's jurisprudential corpus. This article analyses Masʿūdian variants with legal implications in the doctrine of the early jurist Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī (d. 9…
Slavery, Indenture, and Freedom
Slavery was a significant part of society within the seventh-century Arabian context of the Qur'an. In this context, Q. 24:33, which has been universally interpreted by Muslim exegetes as the basis for a contract of mukātaba (‘indenture’) that allows slaves to work to pay for their freedom, is a particularly intriguing verse. This article examines the exegesis of Q. 24:33 against the background of the first two centuries of Islam, examining the w…
A Place Between Two Places
‘Subject to us every sea that is on the earth and in the heavens; the dominion and the kingdom; the sea of the lower world and the sea of the Hereafter.’ These lines from the Ḥizb al-baḥr (Litany of the Sea) by the Moroccan Sufi Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 656/1258) provide a point of departure for discussion of George Archer’s monograph A Place Between Two Places. Central to Archer’s thesis is that the Qurʾānic barzakh, a word steeped in symbol…
The sabab - khāṣṣ — ʿāmm Process as an Instructional Technique within Qur'anic Rhetoric
In his al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān, al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) draws attention to a Qur'anic rhetorical device by which an extra-scriptural occasion of revelation ( sabab) causes the placement of a verse with a specific ( khāṣṣ) intent, shifting the composition to a general ( ʿāmm) verse on a related theme. This feature had been previously discussed in texts such as al-Burhān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān by al-Zarkashī (d. 794/1392) and al-Ibhāj fī sharḥ al-m…
Transcendent God, Rational World
Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today
Ḥanafī-Māturīdīsm
First Paragraph: The historical neglect of the Ḥanafī-Māturīdī tradition of Islamic theology in comparison to other schools, especially its closest rival Ashʿarism, is well-rehearsed. A price has been paid for the absence of reliable Arabic editions and translations of many texts, as well as the failure to study the development of the tradition on its own terms and in its interactions with other interlocutors. This state of affairs is starting to…
The Case of the Missing Disciple
Despite recognition of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Rustughfanī (d. ca. 345/956) as the most important student of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944), a sustained treatment of his theological views has not hitherto appeared. One of the challenges that has been identified in prior studies is a lack of primary sources. To overcome this obstacle, I analyse manuscripts of “Bāb al-mutafarriqāt min fawāʾid” and “al-Asʾila wa-l-ajwiba,” two texts recording al-Rustugh…
Mistaken Identity
Since the writings of Shiblī Nuʿmānī and A. J. Wensinck in the early twentieth century, scholarship has often questioned the ascription of the creed al-Fiqh al-akbar II to the well-known theologian and jurist Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767). But there has hitherto been little attempt to determine how and when this text entered the Hanafi theological tradition and who its true author was. In this article I show that until the early eighth/fourteenth centu…
Islamic Theology and the Crisis of Contemporary Science
This article evaluates the “metaphysical critique” of contemporary science by the Islamic philosophical theologian Naquib al-Attas in his Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Islām. I argue that al-Attas' critique is dialectically inappropriate because it relies on specific, and non-publicly verifiable, interpretations of revelation and spiritual intuition. I contrast this with the work of Edmund Husserl, especially in his The Crisis of European Scien…
Al-Māturīdī’s Divine Action Model
Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) is the eponym of the Māturīdī tradition of kalām, one of the recognized theological schools of Sunnī Islam. This article proposes that whereas the classical Māturīdī tradition adopted an occasionalist divine action model (DAM), al-Māturīdī’s own works indicate a distinctive DAM that can best be described as concurrentist. It is grounded in his concept of God’s nature, particularly His attributes of existentiati…
Idealizing the Qur’an
This article addresses a lack of engagement between Husserlian phenomenology and Qur’anic studies by applying Edmund Husserl’s “historical reduction” in his “The Origin of Geometry” essay to early Qur’anic canonization. I start by summarizing recent findings in the field to characterize a basic outline of the “ʿUthmānī canonization event,” the historical occurrence by which the third Islamic caliph, ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān (r. 644–656), oversaw the pro…
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