Dr Nuha Al-Shaar

Senior Research Associate

Biography Publications Teaching

Books

Alshaar, N., Madelung, W., Baffioni, C., & Uy, C. (2019). On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49-51, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Alshaar, N. (2015). Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-Tawḥīdī and His Contemporaries, London and New York: Routledge

Forthcoming

Alshaar, Nuha and Alessandro Cancian (eds. & trs.) An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, vol. III, Ethics and Society, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Qur’anic Studies Series (in progress)
Alshaar, Nuha and Lawrence Lahey, The Christian-Jewish Debate at Tomei, Egypt: An Arabic Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study in Polemic and Reception in Classical Islam, Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Edited

Alshaar, N. (Ed.). (2017). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Alshaar, N. & Klemm, V. (Eds.) (2013). Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the L Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. Leuven: Peeters
Nuha Alshaar, Beate La Sala, Jenny Oesterle and Barbara Winckler (eds.), A Bi-lingual Series The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany. In the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien, TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021

Forthcoming

Alshaar, Nuha. (Ed.) Muslim Sicily: Encounters & Legacy [to be submitted to the publisher]
Alshaar, Nuha, La Sala, Beate, and David Wilmson (Eds.). Muslim Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing: The Arabian Seas, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean (to be submitted to Brill)

Journal Articles

Alshaar, N. (2021). The Interplay of Religion and Philosophy in al-Tawḥīdī’s Political Thought and Practical Ethics. The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 21, 313-339.
Alshaar, N. (2012). An Islamic Approach to Moral Virtue: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Treatment of Birr (Virtue) in his al-Tafsir al-Kabir. Journal of Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph, LXIV 64, 87–100.
Alshaar, N. (July 2013). Al-Sadaqa wa turath al-fadila al-akhlaqi. Al-Machriq, 2, 615–633.

Book Chapters

Alshaar, N. (May, 2022), “The Shᾱfi‘iyya” in Oliver Leaman (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Islamic Rituals and Practices, Routledge, pp. 133-142.
Alshaar, N. (2020). Knowledge in the Būyid Period: Curriculum, Practices, and Formation of Social Identity. In Sebastian Günther (Ed.). Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 668-683.
Alshaar, N. (2020) “Reconstructing Adab in Islamic Studies.” In Deconstructing Islamic Studies. In Majid Daneshgar and Aaron W. Hughes (Eds.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 167-203.
Alshaar, N. (2017). The Qur’an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-ʿIqd al-Farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940). In Alshaar, N (Ed.). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. 381-400. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alshaar, N. (2017). The Relation of Adab to the Qur’an: Conceptual and Historical Framework. In Alshaar, N (Ed.). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. 1-58. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alshaar, N. (2013). Between Love and Social Aspiration: The Influence of Sufi and Greek Concepts of Love on the Socio-political Thought of the Ikhwan al-Safa’, Miskawayh, and al-Tawhidi. In Klemm, V & Alshaar, N (Eds.). Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: The Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. 25-39. Leuven: Peeters.
Nuha Alshaar, Beate La Sala, Jenny Oesterle and Barbara Winckler “The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany”” – An Introduction, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18.03.2021
Alshaar, N. & Klemm, V. (2013). Introductory forward. In Klemm, V & Alshaar, N (Eds.). Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: The Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. 1-6. Leuven: Peeters.
Alshaar, N. (2010). An Analytical Reading of al-Tawḥīdī’s Epistle: on [The Classification of] Knowledge (Risāla fī al-‘Ulūm). In (Bruno De Nicola, Husain Qutbuddin, and Yonatan Mendel (Eds.)). Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies.161-185. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Forthcoming

Alshaar, N. (forthcoming), Hadith and the Concept of Adab as Moral Education. In Mu’taz al-Khatib (Ed.). Hadith and Ethics, Brill.
Alshaar, N. (Forthcoming, 2022). The Social and Political History of Baghdad under the Buyid Period. In Jens Shineer and Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Eds.). Handbook of Baghdad, Brill.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming, 2022) The Treatment of Ḥadīth in Popular Literary Genres. In Mustafa Shah (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Hadith. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming) “Intellectual and Poetic Traditions of Sicily during the Fatimid and Kalbid Rules” In Muslim Sicily: Encounters & Heritage, Nuha Alshaar (Ed.).
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming). The Good and Bad, Virtue and Vice in the Fourth-century Ethical Debates. In Mu’taz al-Khatib (Ed.). Discussions on Virtue in Islamic Ethics, Brill.
Alshaar, N. “Character, Virtue, and Knowledge in al-Tawḥīdī’s Ethics." In Mustafa Shah, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Alshaar, Nuha (Forthcoming), “Proper Conduct in Scholarly and Professional Circles” in Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ethics, Mohammed Ghaly (Ed.), Routledge.
Alshaar, Nuha, “Literary Qur’ānic Hermeneutics” In The Handbook of Qur‘ānic Hermeneutics, Georges Tamer (Ed.).
Alshaar, Nuha, “The Qur'an in the Field of its Political Reception". In The Qur'an through the Ages: A Reception History, vol. 2, Forthcoming.

Encyclopedia Entries

Alshaar, N. (October 2020).“Meal Customs”, VIII. Islam,’ Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 18, coll. 238-240. Brill: De Gruyer.
Alshaar, N. (2014). Abū ῌayyān al-Tawḥīdī. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam, Ibrahim Kalin (editor in chief) 2. 317–319. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming

Alshaar, N. (forthcoming).“Neighbour”, VIII. Islam,’ Encyclopaeida of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 18, coll. 238-240. Brill: De Gruyer.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming). Al-‘Āmīrī (d. 381/992). The I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, Abdel Haleem, M. A. S. and Shah, M. (Eds.). London: I.B. Taurus.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming). ‘Aḥmad b. Miskawayh (d.c. 421/1016). The I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, Abdel Haleem, M. A. S. and Shah, M. (Eds.). London: I.B. Taurus.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming). Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī (d. ca. 375/985). The I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, Abdel Haleem, M. A. S. and Shah, M. (Eds.). London: I.B. Taurus.
Alshaar, N. (forthcoming). Abū ῌayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. ca. 414/1023). The I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, Abdel Haleem, M. A. S. and Shah, M. (Eds.). London: I.B. Taurus.

Book Reviews

Alshaar, N. (April 2021). Al-Muḥassin ibn‘Ali¯ al-Tanu¯khi¯, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity, ed. and trans.Julia Bray. (Library of Arabic Literature.) New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. xxxi, 352
Alshaar, N. (September 2016). Sami Makarem, ed. and trans., the Shi‘i Imamte: A Fatimid Interpretation: Book Review. Al-Abhath, 64, 127–130.
Alshaar, N. (July 2013). Prophetic Niche in the Virtuous City: Book Review. Philosophy East and West, 63, (3), 436–439.

Translation

Alshaar, N. (trans.). (2013). The Theory of Māl among the Zaydīs by Sayyid Zayd al-Wazir. In Farhad Daftary and Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (Eds.). The Study of Shi‘i Islam: History, Theology and Law. 353–373. London: I. B. Taurus.

Other Contributions

Alshaar, N. (2017). In What Ways Has Malta Been Linked to Syria? Malta and the Mediterranean, Julia Hauser and Jens Scheiner (Eds.).