Yousef Casewit is Assistant Professor of Qur'anic Studies at the University of Chicago. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Arabic Intellectual Heritage and Culture at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, as well as a Humanities Research Fellow at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the co-editor of A Qur'an Commentary by Ibn Barraj¿n of Seville (with Gerhard Boewering, 2015).
1. The beginnings of a mystical discourse in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, M
likism, and the politics of an epistemological debate; 2. The rise of the Andalus
Mütabir
n: the influence of Ghaz
l
, markers of the Mütabir
n tradition, and the onset of institutional Sufism; 3. The life of a contemplative: Ibn Barraj
n's educational formation, spiritual practices, political views, and decease; 4. The works of Ibn Barraj
n: chronological sequence, manuscript tradition, and central themes; 5. The divine descent: bridging the chasm between God and creation; 6. The hermeneutics of certainty: harmony, hierarchy, and hegemony of the Qur
n; 7. A Muslim scholar of the Bible: biblical proof-texts for Qur
nic teachings in the exegetical works of Ibn Barraj
n; 8. The human ascent: I
tib
r, cycles of time, and future predictions.
