James Winston Morris (born 1949) is an American

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ic theologian, currently a professor in the Department of

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. Before teaching at Boston College, he held the Sharjah Chair of

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at the

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Biography and Academic background

He received a BA in Civilizational Studies from the

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in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from

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in 1980, for a thesis "Ibn Masarra: A Reconsideration of the Primary Sources". He also studied at the

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, the Iranian Academy of Philosophy, and the Center for the Study of Civilizations, Tehran. He taught at the

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, and the

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in Paris and London. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), University of Malaya, and University of Sarajevo. He specialized in medieval Islamic philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Ibn 'Arabī.WorldCat author listing
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Publications

Books

*''Ostad Elahi on Spirituality in Everyday Life.'' Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya, 2009. *''From Ethics and Devotion to Spiritual Realization: Ibn 'Arabī on 'What Is Indispensable For the Spiritual Seeker, Monograph, pp. viii + 37. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaysia, Centre for Cilisational Dialogue, 2007. *''Knowing the Spirit'', by Nûr Alî-Shâh Elâhi, translated by James Morris ( .l. State university of New York press, 2007. *''The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations'.'' Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae of Kentucky, Inc, 2005. OCLC 535507748 *''Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilization.'' Sarajevo: El-Kalem, 2001 and Cambridge : Archetype, 2004. *''The Wisdom of the Throne: An Introduction to the Philosophy of

Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā ( fa, ملا صدرا; ar, صدر المتألهین) (c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, the ...

''. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981. **Review, ''

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'' Oct. - Dec. 1983, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 767-768 **Review, ''

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'', University of London, 1983, vol. 46, no. 1, p. 149-

Articles

*"The Spiritual Ascension: Ibn ʿArabī and the Miʿrāj Part I" ''Journal of the American Oriental Society,'' Oct. - Dec. 1987, vol. 107, no. 4, p. 629-652 *"The Spiritual Ascension: Ibn ʿArabī and the Miʿrāj Part II" ''Journal of the American Oriental Society,'' Jan. - Mar. 1988, vol. 108, no. 1, p. 63-77 *"Ibn ʿArabi and His Interpreters Part II: Influences and Interpretations" ''Journal of the American Oriental Society,'' Oct. - Dec. 1986, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 733-756 *Mulla Sadrā's Conception of the Barzakh and the Emerging Science of Spirituality: The Process of Realization (tahqīq). In Islam-West Philosophical Dialogue (Papers Presented at the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra), Tehran, SIPRI Institute, 2005, vol. X, pp. 93–103.

References

External links

Official web page at Boston College
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