Yousef Casewit

Yousef Casewit is an American Quranic scholar and assistant professor of Qur'anic Studies at the University of Chicago. ^[1]

Biography

Yousef was born in Egypt and raised in Morocco, and has studied with Muslim intellectuals in Morocco, Syria, and Mauritania. He received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Yale University. Casewit worked as a Humanities Research Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi and an Assistant Professor of Arabic intellectual heritage and culture at the American University of Sharjah before joining the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is proficient in Arabic, French, and Spanish. ^[1]

Works

• The Mystics of Al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century (Winner of Iran World Book Award of the Year (2019) ^{[2] [3]}
• A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141): Wisdom Deciphered, the Unseen Discovered - Ῑḍāḥ al-Ḥikma bi-ʾAḥkām al-ʿIbra, co-edited with Gerhard Böwering, Brill, Tafsir Qurʾānic Studies Series (2015)
• Sufism Revived: A Contemporary Treatise on Divine Light, Prophecy, and Sainthood
• ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan, ed. & trans. Yousef Casewit (2023)

See also

• Walid Ahmad Saleh

References

1. "Yousef Casewit". The University of Chicago Divinity School. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
2. "The World Award for Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran - جایزه جهانی کتاب سال" . Retrieved 2021-09-21.
3. Reviews of The Mystics of Al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century:
   • Gardiner, Noah (2019). "The Mystics of Al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century". Nazariyat İslam Felsefe ve Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences). 5 (2). Ilmi Etudler Dernegi (ILEM): 213–219. doi: 10.12658/nazariyat.5.2.d0067en . ISSN   2148-8088.
   • Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, Volume 62, 2017
   • Petrone, Michele (2021-02-11). "The Mystics of Al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century, written by Yousef Casewit". Medieval Encounters. 26 (6). Brill: 615–617. doi:10.1163/15700674-12340092. ISSN   1380-7854. S2CID   233935364.
   • Akhtar, Ali Humayun (2018-10-01). "Yousef Casewit. The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century". The American Historical Review. 123 (4). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1430–1431. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy171. ISSN   0002-8762.
   • Akasoy, Anna (2019). "The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century. Yousef Casewit". Renaissance Quarterly. 72 (3). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 1087–1088. doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.316. ISSN   0034-4338. S2CID   211579541.
   • Qureshi, Jawad Anwar, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:4: 78-82
   • Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 139, No. 3 (July–September 2019), pp. 733-736
   • Aytep, Ahmet (2019-12-22). "Yousef Casewit. The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century". Divan: Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi. Divan: Disiplinlerarasi Calismalar Dergisi. doi: 10.20519/divan.670051 . ISSN   1309-6834.