Dr David Bennett
Assistant Professor

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Departments and units
Department of Education
“Al-Ashʿarī (d. 324/935-6) on Muʿtazilite Claims about the Senses and Sense Perception,” in C. Lange and A. Bursi, eds., Islamic Sensory History, vol. 2: 600-1500, Leiden: Brill, 2024.
“More-to-Know VI: Rational Theologians,” in J. Scheiner and I. Toral, eds., Baghdād: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, Leiden: Brill, 2022: 629-632.
“Introducing the maʿnā,” in C. Thomsen Thörnqvist and J. Toivanen, eds., Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, vol. 3: Concept Formation, Leiden: Brill, 2022: 78-94.
“Avicenna’s dreaming in context,” in C. Thomsen Thörnqvist and J. Toivanen, eds., Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, vol. 2: Dreaming, Leiden: Brill, 2022: 88-109.
“Sense Perception in the Arabic tradition: the controversy concerning causality,” in J. Toivanen, ed., Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, vol. 1: Sense Perception, Leiden: Brill, 2022: 99-123.
“Autoscopy in Meteorologica 3.4: Following some strands in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin commentary traditions” (with Filip Radovic, co-author), in J. Toivanen, ed., Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, vol. 1: Sense Perception Leiden: Brill, 2022: 213-248.
“Reporting the Dualists: al-Tanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām,” in M. Jas and A. Lammer, eds., Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World,” Leiden: Brill, 2022: 272-301.
“Cognisable Content: The work of the maʿnā in early Muʿtazilite theory,” in N. Germann and M. Najafi, eds., Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021: 1–20.
Co-editor, with J. Toivanen, Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism, Cham: Springer, 2020.
“When Dreams Got Real: The ontology of dreaming in the Arabic Aristotelian tradition” (with Filip Radovic, co-author), in A. Classen, ed., Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020: 231-252.
“The Early Muʿtazilites,” in S. Schmidtke, ed., Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, Oxford: OUP, 2016: 142-158.
“A Newly Discovered Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī Treatise against Atomism” (with R. Wisnovsky, co-author), in Janos, D., ed., Ideas in Motion: Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in Baghdad and Beyond in the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th Centuries. Leiden: Brill (Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts), 2015: 298-311.
Co-Editor, Special Issue of Iranian Studies, 48.1, “Religious Trends in Late Ancient and Early Islamic Iran,” January 2015.
Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī, selections from Mīzān al-ṣawāb dar sharḥ-i faṣl al-khiṭāb [translation], in Nasr, S.H. and M. Aminrazavi, eds., An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, volume 5: From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015: 381-398.
“Abū Isḥāq al-Naẓẓām: The Ultimate Constituents of Nature are Simple Properties and Rūḥ.” Abbasid Studies IV: Proceedings of the 2010 Meeting of the School of Abbasid Studies. Ed. M. Bernards. Exeter: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2013.