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Article
Todd, R 2023, 'Alchemical Tafsir: Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the Works of the Twelfth-Century Moroccan Alchemist Ibn Arfa' Ra's', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2023.2283677
Todd, R 2022, 'Physics and metaphysics in an early Ottoman Madrasa: Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī on the nature of time', Oriens, vol. 50, no. 1-2, pp. 108–142. https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-12340014
Todd, R 2021, 'Classical poetic motifs as alchemical metaphors in the Shudhūr al-dhahab and its commentaries', Asiatische Studien, vol. 75, no. 2, 10, pp. 665-683. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2020-0043
Todd, R 2016, 'Alchemical Poetry in Almohad Morocco: the Shudhūr al-dhahab of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs', Oriens, vol. 44, no. 1-2, pp. 116-144. https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-04401006
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Todd, R 2024, The Creation and Composition of the Body. in E Abuali & S Abdel-Latif (eds), Sufism and the Body. Handbook of Sufi Studies, Brill, Leiden & Boston.
Todd, R 2023, Abū Yūsuf al-Kindī, Refutation of the Christians. in D Thomas (ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914. 1st edn, vol. 1, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 31-32. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/christianmuslim-relations-9781350233300/>
Todd, R 2023, Abū l-Qāsim al-Anṣārī, The indispensable, on theology. in D Thomas (ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914. 1st edn, vol. 1, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 51-54. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/christianmuslim-relations-9781350233300/>
Todd, R 2023, Al-Zāhidī, The epistle of victory. in D Thomas (ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914. 1st edn, vol. 1, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 64-66. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/christianmuslim-relations-9781350233300/>
Todd, R 2022, Abu l-Qasim al-Ansari, "The indispensable, on theology". in D Thomas (ed.), The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500. 1st edn, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 45-48. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-reader-in-christianmuslim-relations-6001500-9781350214101/>
Todd, R 2022, Levels of Being in Sufi Thought. in A Knysh & C Lange (eds), Sufi Cosmology. 1 edn, Handbook of Sufi Studies, vol. 2, Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 332-364. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004392618_017
Book/Film/Article review
Todd, R 2022, 'Sufism and the Scriptures: Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of 'Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī: By Fitzroy Morrissey (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic [I.B. Tauris], 2021), xi + 244 pp. Price HB $115.00. EAN 978–0755618316', Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, etac014, pp. 240-246. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etac014
Todd, R 2020, '[Review of] Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab', Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 396-400. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etaa027
Todd, R 2017, '[Review of] The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 107-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2016.1245931
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Todd, R 2024, The Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil). in BN Wolfe et al (ed.), St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. University of St Andrews, St Andrews. <https://www.saet.ac.uk/Islam/ThePerfectHuman>
Todd, R 2023, al-Qūnawī, Ṣadr al-Dīn [Qunawi Sadr Din]. in K Fleet, G Krämer, D Matringe, J Nawas & DJ Stewart (eds), Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. 3rd edn, vol. 2023-2, Encyclopaedia of Islam three, Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 145-149. <https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-qunawi-sadr-al-din-COM_46456>
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