Faculty
Merlin Swartz


Faculty Member

Professor Emeritus of Religion

mswartz@bu.edu

145 Bay State Rd.
Suite 302
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-4430
Interests:
  • Religious and Intellectual History of Medieval Islam


Courses:

RN 214: Islam
RN 343: Global Islam
RN 345: Islamic Law

Publications:

A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's 'Akhbar as-Sifat.' A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text with Translation, Introduction and Notes (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002).

Studies on Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981).

Humanoria Islamica, volume II, 1974 (The Hague: Mouton, 1975), co-editor and contributor).

Humanoria Islamica, volume I, 1973 (The Hague: Mouton, 1974), co-editor and contibutor).

Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab al-Qussas wal'-Mudhakkirin (Beirut: L'Institut de Lettres Orientales, 1971).

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