Oliver Leaman


Oliver Leaman is an American professor of philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic studies at the University of Kentucky, where he has been teaching since 2000. He specialized in the history of Islamic, Jewish, and Eastern philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1979.

Books

An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1985.Moses Maimonides, Routledge, 1990.Death and Loss: Compassionate Attitudes in the Classroom, Cassell, 1995.Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1995History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. S. H. Nasr & O. Leaman, Routledge, 1996Friendship East and West – Philosophical Perspectives, ed. O. Leaman, Curzon, 1996.History of Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman, Routledge, 1996.Moses Maimonides Curzon, 1997, 2nd Edition.Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy, Routledge, 1999.A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy, Polity Press, 1999.Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings, London, Routledge, 2000.A Reader in Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank, O. Leaman & C. Manekin, Routledge, 2000Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2001Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2001Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, ed. G. Howarth & O. Leaman, Routledge,2001Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman, Cambridge University Press 2003.Lost in Translation: Essays in Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, Sarajevo: buybook, 2004Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Islamic Surveys Series, 2004.The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2006Islamic Philosophy A-Z, with Peter Groff, Edinburgh University Press, 2007Judaism : an introduction, London : I. B. Tauris, 2011Controversies in Contemporary Islam, Routledge, 2013The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, ed. O. Leaman, Bloomsbury, 2015The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide, Bloomsbury, 2016Islam and Morality: A Philosophical Introduction, Bloomsbury, 2019 Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice, editor, Routledge, 2022