Merlin Swartz
Merlin Swartz was an American scholar of religion.
Swartz attended Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen College, and Harvard University. He was Professor Emeritus of Religion at Boston University, having taught previously at the American University in Beirut and Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research and teaching focused primarily on the religious and intellectual history of medieval Islam.
Books
- Ibn al-Jawzi, Kitab al-Qussas wa'l-Mudhakkirin .
- A Seventh-Century Sunni Creed: The 'Aqida Wasitiya of Ibn Taymiya.
- Studies on Islam.
- Humaniora Islamica, co-editor.
- A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat: A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text with Translation, Introduction and Notes.