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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This course is starting next weekend! Join me to read a short but profound Maturidi kalam text cover to cover and to discuss key theological principles plus their relevance today. forms.gle/L12W7nvAXkcw...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I am teaching Abu Salama al-Samarqandi’s Jumal usul al-din for a second time! This is an introduction to early Samarqandi Maturidi theology and an access point for a future multi-part course on al-Maturidi’s own Kitab al-tawhid. Further details/sign up: forms.gle/L12W7nvAXkcw...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

New arrival. Hussein Abdulsater’s major new book. Al-Jahiz as a theologian and social empiricist, and how that alters received 3/9th century intellectual history. It was a pleasure to edit this masterful work. edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

For those who haven’t heard, I’m happy to say I’ve edited, annotated and introduced the first scholarly English version of Kitab al-tawhid, translated by Tahir Uluç. Our edition not only makes al-Maturidi’s theology accessible but allows his book to take its place as a classic of world literature.

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm teaching my book Transcendent God, Rational World: A Maturidi Theology for the first time online from 20th April. Covering a chapter a week, this course is for both new readers looking for a guide and anyone interested in discussing my ideas. Details and sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com · 07/01/2025

Paperback! Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change, is now available to pre-order in paperback! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hadith-... 30% off when ordering direct from EUP — code is PAPER30.

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This CfP closes tomorrow. Go ahead and join the last-minute rush!

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My survey of "medieval" Islamic theology (history and themes) has been published by Routledge. Good for beginners, yet of interest to scholars too, and great for reading lists. The resource is not very accessible, so here you go: ramonharvey.com/wp-content/u...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Calling scholars! Abstract submissions for Proofs of God’s Existence in Islamic Thought, a global online conference hosted @ Cambridge Muslim College by myself and Shoaib Malik close at the end of this month. Further details and submission form are here: cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/research/exist…

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A new arrival from Suheil Laher. The definitive treatment of the origins and development across disciplines of tawatur (mass transmission). A great achievement! Further details: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-tawatur-i…

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am pleased to announce that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. I am grateful for all the support of my scholarship that has made this milestone possible.

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Last day to pick up paperback copies of my books for under £15/$20 each! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-qur... / edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transce...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The 50% off St Andrew's Day Sale is returning this weekend (Sat 30th Nov and Sunday 1st Dec). This would be a great time to pick up titles in Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology. The deal should also apply to pre-orders. edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

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Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology

<h4>Publishes original studies on the Qur’an and Hadith as the scripture of Islam, their commentary literatures, and the diverse theological systems founded upon them</h4> <ul> <li>Reflects on theolog...

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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Edinburgh University Press' St. Andrew's Day sale is coming up November 30th and December 1st. 50% off all books. Including the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. edinburghuniversitypress.com

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I recently appeared on Blogging Theology to discuss my book Transcendent God, Rational World, the Maturidi kalam tradition, as well as Islamic theology and philosophy more broadly. Check it out. youtu.be/I2Znv-1YwAs?...

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Why Maturidi Theology is Relevant today with Dr Ramon Harvey

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you’re interested in Islamic theology, make sure to follow @ramonharvey.bsky.social - I can’t recommend his work too highly, especially his most recent book, which is open access here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transce...

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Trying this site out again based on rumours that it is increasingly better for academics than the other. Most of my teaching and research at the moment is on Islamic theology (esp. Maturidism), especially in dialogue with analytic and phenomenological philosophy. Would be nice to connect/reconnect.

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Congratulations to I-Wen Su from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She has successfully contracted her monograph on the formation of early Sunni identity and the idea of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs with Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology at Edinburgh University Press!

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

It does not follow from us contingently existing and God necessarily existing that we do not truly exist. We exist in a state of dependency on God, and at a location in space and time. These aspects of contingency are negated from God in His necessary and timeless existence.

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Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

There’s a kind of online Islamic theology account. Usually completely or semi-anon. Probably madrasa education or equivalent. Competent to excellent Arabic. Can argue the best school opinion from a dozen texts but struggles to make a historical or contemporary argument. Interesting phenomenon.

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