All Outputs (31)

Muslim-Christian relations and peacemaking in the Arab World (2014)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2014). Muslim-Christian relations and peacemaking in the Arab World. In R. R. King, & S.-L. Tan (Eds.), (un)Common sounds: songs of peace and reconciliation among Muslims and Christians. Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock Publishers)

The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians (2010)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2010). The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians. Muslim World, 100(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-1913.2010.01333.x

The Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258 and subsequent Mongol incursions into Syria through the early 1300s ushered in a period of great political and religious anxiety in the Near East. The Mongol Ilkhanid rulers of Persia and Iraq corralled the C... Read More about The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians.

Review of Frank Griffel, Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2009) (2010)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2010). Review of Frank Griffel, Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2009). Harvard Theological Review, 30(1),

Islamic universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salafī deliberations on the duration of Hell-Fire (2009)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2009). Islamic universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salafī deliberations on the duration of Hell-Fire. Muslim World, 99(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01260.x

Classical Sunni eschatology maintains that all those who believe that God is one will enter the Garden of Paradise in due time. Some monotheists may first have to endure punishment and purification in the Fire for their sins, but those with even the... Read More about Islamic universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salafī deliberations on the duration of Hell-Fire.

A common word: 'More positive and open, yet mainstream and orthodox' (2009)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2009). A common word: 'More positive and open, yet mainstream and orthodox'. Harvard Theological Review, 30(1),

Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism (2007)
Book
Hoover, J. (2007). Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism. Brill

Writing the resistance: recent books on Hizbullah from Lebanese perspectives (2007)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2007). Writing the resistance: recent books on Hizbullah from Lebanese perspectives. Harvard Theological Review, 28(1),

تفاسير المفسرين القدماء للآيتين 75 و76 من سورة النحل Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76) (2007)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2007). تفاسير المفسرين القدماء للآيتين 75 و76 من سورة النحل Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76). Harvard Theological Review, 28(2),

This article in Arabic surveys interpretations of the parabolic imagery in Qur'an 16:75-76 found in the classical commentators al-Tabari (d. 923), al-Razi (d. 1209), al-Qurtubi (d. 1272), al-Baydawi (d. 1282 or 1291), Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) and al-Jala... Read More about تفاسير المفسرين القدماء للآيتين 75 و76 من سورة النحل Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76).

Ibn Taymiyya as an Avicennan theologian: a Muslim approach to God’s self-sufficiency (2006)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2006). Ibn Taymiyya as an Avicennan theologian: a Muslim approach to God’s self-sufficiency. Harvard Theological Review, 34-46(1),

The justice of God and the best of all possible worlds: the theodicy of Ibn Taymiyya (2006)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2006). The justice of God and the best of all possible worlds: the theodicy of Ibn Taymiyya. Harvard Theological Review, 27(2),

Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world (2004)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2004). Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world. Journal of Islamic Studies, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/15.3.287

The course of the Islamic debate over the origin of the world through Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198) is well known. Kalam theologians and al-Ghazali seek to prove the temporal origination of the world, while philosophers such as Ibn Sina argue for the world... Read More about Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world.