John Walbridge

Phone:

(812) 855-8689

Email:

jwalbrid@indiana.edu

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Islamic Philosphy
• Military History of the Middle East
• Readings in Classical Arabic Literature
• Koranic Studies

Publication Highlights

• God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• "Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History." Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2002).
• The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.
• The Philosophy of Illumination of Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi (with Hossein Ziai). Brigham Young University Press: Provo, 1999.
• Sacred Acts, Sacred Time, Sacred Space: Essays on Bahá'í Law and History. Oxford: George Ronald, 1996.
• Translator. The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of Love, by Kahlil Gibran. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1997.
• Translator. The Storm: Prose Poems and Short Stories, by Kahlil Gibran. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1993.
• The Science of Mystic Lights: Qutb al-Din Shirazi and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University, 1992.