Todd Lawson

Todd Lawson specializes in Islamic Thought, specifically Shi'i Quran commentary and philosophical theology. 

Publications

• 2025. “The Quran and the Holy Spirit.” In Geist: Phänomenologie - Religionsgeschichte - Theologie. Ein Kompendium, 1st ed., edited by Jörg Frey, Reinhard Feldmeier, and Benjamin Schliesser, with Saskia Urich, vol. 1. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 542. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1009-1022.
• 2025.  “In the Beginning Was Metaphor: Henry Corbin and the Quran.” In New Perspectives on Henry Corbin, edited by Hadi Fakhoury. Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 81-132.
• 2024. “Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Aḥmad Aḥʾī, Figuration and the World of Images.” In Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Persian and Turkic Literary Theory, edited by Nasrin Askari, Rebecca Ruth Gould and Hany Rashwan. Proceedings of the British Academy.  Oxford UK: Oxford University Press & British Academy, 236-273.
• 2024,  “Joseph’s Dream and the Day of the Covenant: Poetics of Quranic Pedagogy.” In Teachers and Students: Reflections on Learning in Near and Middle Eastern Cultures. Collected Studies in Honor of Sebastian Günther, edited by Dorothee Pielow, Jana Newiger, and Yassir El-Jamouhi. Leiden: Brill, 401-440.
• 2024. “Divine Attributes and Human Emotions: Joseph’s Sentimental Education in Sura 12 of the Qur’an.” In Grasping Emotions: Approaches to Emotions in Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Discourse., 1st ed., edited by Ute E. Eisen, Heidrun E. Mader, and Melanie Peetz. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 253-270.
• 2023. “The Role of Wonder in Creating Identity.” Religions 14, no. 6: 762: 1-23.
• 2022. “Qurʾanic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse and Typological Figuration.” In The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an, edited by George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, and Daniel A. Madigan. Abingdon UK, New York: Routledge, 177-190.
• 2022. “[Review of] The Translator of Desires: Poems by Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabī, Translated by Michael Sells. The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2021, Xxxviii, 323pp.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society 72: 107–19.
• 2021 .“The Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism.” Religions 12, no. 8: 562: 1-20.
• 2020. “Messiah V.  - Islam.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 18, Berlin: de Gruyter, 882-883.
• 2020. “Metaphor - Islam.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 18, Berlin: de Gruyter,  999-1001.
• 2020.  “Muhammad as Educator, Islam as Enlightenment, and the Quran as Sacred Epic.” In Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change, 1st ed., vol. 1 (of 2). Leiden: Brill, 81-97.