Oliver Leaman | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Oliver Leaman

Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

oleaman@uky.edu

1503 Patterson Office Tower

859-323-2272

Research Interests

Jewish Studies
Islamic, Jewish and Eastern Philosophy
Asian Philosophy

Affiliations

Philosophy

Oliver Leaman has been a Professor of Philosophy at UK since 2000, having previously taught at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a specialist in Jewish, Islamic, and Asian philosophy and the author or editor of many works in these areas, including most recently The Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice (2022) and The Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice (2022).

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

· An introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1985

· Death and Loss: Compassionate Attitudes in the Classroom, Cassell, 1995

· Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1995

· History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. S.H. Nasr & O. Leaman, Routledge, 1996

· Friendship 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

· Averroes and his Philosophy, Curzon, 1997, 2nd Edition

· The Future of Philosophy: Towards the 21st Century, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 1998

· Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy, Routledge, 1999

· A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy, Polity Press, 1999

· Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings, Routledge, 2000

· The Jewish Philosophy Reader, ed. D. Frank, O. Leaman & C. Manekin, Routledge, 2000

· Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2001

· Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2001

· Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, ed. G. Howarth & O. Leaman, Routledge,2001

· Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001

· Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, ed. D. Frank & O. Leaman, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

· Lost in Translation: Essays in Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, Buybook, 2004

· Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, 2004

· The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2006

· Islamic Philosophy A-Z, with Peter Groff, Edinburgh University Press, 2007

· Controversies in Contemporary Islam, Routledge, 2013

· Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, ed. O. Leaman, Bloomsbury, 2015

· The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide, Bloomsbury, 2016

· Islam and Morality: A Philosophical Introduction, Bloomsbury, 2019

· Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2022

· Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2022