Outputs and projects
Supported Publications & Outputs
- Rey Behboudi & Kate O'Connell, Oriental Journeys Podcasts: Guided and inspired by the famous traveller Ibn Battuta’s (d.1369) footsteps, in a series of conversations with international scholars and prominent practitioners, the Oriental Journeys Podcast aims to deliver intriguing, historically accurate, relatable, curiosity-provoking and well-researched episodes that open a portal into the world of the East for people who are curious about the past, contemplate the wonders of cities and hunger for the marvels of travelling.
- Aydogan Kars, “Shāhjāniyya (d.460/1067) and Her Hospice: New Light on Medieval Women’s Institutional Learning and Piety,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (accepted, forthcoming in 2027).
- Aydogan Kars, Prophetic Medicine: Popular Cultures of Healing and Hearing in Medieval Islam (AAR Religion, Culture, and History Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026).
- Aydogan Kars, “Ibn al-ʿArabī between Two Renaissances: Genealogies of a Double-Truth Theory,” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 36:3 (2026), 245-267.
- Aydogan Kars, “The Breaths of al-Dāstānī and the Heirs of al-Bisṭāmī: Formation of Intoxicated Sufism in Persia,” Journal of Sufi Studies 14:2 (2025), 99-134.
- Aydogan Kars and Ashkan Bahrani, “Four Treatises of Sahlagī: Newly Recovered Sources on Early Sufism, Theology, and Traditionism,” Studia Islamica 120:2 (2025), 245-288.
- Aydogan Kars, “A ‘Sufi’ Epistle on Spiritual Poverty, and Its Authors: Authenticity, Authority, and Genre in Textual Reproduction,” Journal of Islamic Studies 33:2 (2022), 203-229.
- Aydogan Kars and Ashkan Bahrani, "Knowledge and Causality in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Book of Giving, and the Buddhist Notion of Dependent Origination," Religions 13:9 (2022), 768 (1-27).
- Aydogan Kars, “The Early Transmission of al-Suhrawardī’s ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif,” Journal of Religion 102:1 (2022), 47-92.
- Aydogan Kars, "A 'Sufi' Epistle on Spiritual Poverty, and Its Authors: Authenticity, Authority, and Genre in Textual Reproduction," Journal of Islamic Studies 33:2 (2022), 203-229.
- Aydogan Kars and Ashkan Bahrani, ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī: Studies, Editions, Translations (Leiden: Brill, Studies on Sufism Series, 2022).
- Pablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein, Patterns of Contemplation: Ibn ʿArabi, Abdullah Bosnevi and The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion (Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2021).
- Milad Milani, Zahra Taheri, and Aydogan Kars (eds). Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience, Religions, Special Issue, Switzerland: MDPI (Jan. 2022).
- Aydogan Kars, “Ismāʿīl al-Qaṣrī, Kubrawiyya, and Sufi Genealogies: ‘Deep-Dark Transmissions’ in Medieval Iran,” Iranian Studies 55:1 (2022), 143-176.
- Aydogan Kars, “An Earlier Copy of al-Suhrawardī’s ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif and Its Scribe, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥanafī,” Religions, 11:11 (2020), 613 (1-17).
- Ashkan Bahrani and Aydogan Kars, “A Sufi Master without a Hospice: Abdolkarim Soroush between Sufism and Mysticism,” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, Special Issue on Modern Thinking in Islam, 33.2 (2020), 166-184.
- Aydogan Kars, “Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān al-Abharī: A Master of Ibn al-ʿArabī,” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, 67 (2020), 39-58.
- Aydogan Kars, “Niyazi-yi Mısri on the Divine Names: Ottoman Theology and Sufism in the Light of the Arabic Commentary Tradition,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 6:1 (2019), 171-210.
- Aydogan Kars, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, AAR Academy Series, 2019).
- Special Mention of Excellence for the Junior Award, European Academy of Religion, Alberigo Award 2019
- Review, Medieval Mystical Theology (2021).
- Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (83/2, 2020): 338-340.
- Review, Religious Studies (2020), 1-5.
- Video review, al-Mahdi Institute Library book review (2020)
- Review, The Maydan (2020)
- Persian online review (2020)
- Interview in Black Agenda Report Book Forum (2020)
- Discussion session in the Third Annual Book Review Colloquium on Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
- “Book of the Week” (Jun.1, 2020), Anamed, Library of Koc University, Turkey
Ongoing Research Projects and Cooperation
- Global knowledge transmission map of the Islamic heritage (ARC-DECRA)
- Preventive medicine and religious norms in the preindustrial Islamicate societies (ARC-DP)
- Metempsychosis: an Interreligious History
- M3CS: Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
- CMRS: Monash Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- ACET-Global, “Global Peace Project”
- BIRARADA (Association for Science, Art, Education, Research and Solidarity)
- Inventorying "Pre-modern" Manuscripts in Victorian Public and Private Collections