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Merlin Swartz
Merlin Swartz
is an American
scholar of religion
.
Swartz attended
Eastern Mennonite University
,
Goshen College
, and
Harvard University
. He is a
Professor Emeritus
of Religion at
Boston University
, having taught previously at the
American University in Beirut
and Harvard
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
. His research and teaching
focus
primarily on the religious and
intellectual history
of
medieval
Islam
.
Books
Ibn al-Jawzi,
Kitab al-Qussas wa'l-Mudhakkirin
.
A Seventh-Century
Sunni
Creed: The 'Aqida Wasitiya of
Ibn Taymiya
.
Studies on Islam
.
Humaniora
Islamica
, co-editor.
A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism:
Ibn
al-Jawzi's Kitab
Akhbar
as-Sifat: A
Critical Edition
of the Arabic
Text
with Translation,
Introduction
and Notes
.