Publications

Books

Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates, eds. Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. (publisher’s page) Introduction. [download]

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Kitab al-Tawhid, The Book of Monotheism, tr. Tahir Uluç, ed. Ramon Harvey. Ibn Haldun University Press, 2025. (distributor’s page)

Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives, eds. Ramon Harvey and Daniel Tutt. International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2023. [download]

Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. (publisher’s page) Introduction. [download]

The Qur’an and the Just Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. (publisher’s page)

Articles

“Idealizing the Qur’an: A Phenomenological Account of Early Islamic Scriptural Canonization.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2025): 1-15. [download]

With David Solomon Jalajel, “Al-Maturidi’s Divine Action Model: A Distinctive Concurrentist Account of Causality.” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 16, no. 1 (2025): 63-106. [download]

“Lifeworld Coherentism and Tradition-Based Perspectivalism: A First and Second-Order Proposal for the Justification of Empirical Beliefs,” Philosophia (2024): 1-20. [download]

“Islamic Theology and the Crisis of Contemporary Science: Naquib al-Attas’ ‘Metaphysical Critique’ and a Husserlian Alternative,” Theology and Science (2023): 1-17. [download]

“Mistaken Identity: An Investigation into Abu Hanifa’s al-Fiqh al-akbar,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 142, no. 3 (2022): 597-620. [download]

“The Case of the Missing Disciple: Abu l-Hasan al-Rustughfani and the First Reception of al-Maturidi’s Theology in Samarqand,” Oriens 49, no. 1 (2021): 95-130. [download]

“The sabab–khāsṣ̣—ʿāmm Process as an Instructional Technique within Qur’anic Rhetoric,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 22, no. 1 (2020): 78-91. [download]

“Slavery, Indenture, and Freedom: Exegesis of the ‘mukātaba Verse’ (Q. 24:33) in Early Islam,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 21, no. 2 (2019): 68-107. [download]; Arabic translation by Mostafa El-fekey, Markaz Tafsir li-l-Dirāsa al-Qur’āniyya (2021). [download]

“The Legal Epistemology of Qur’anic Variants: The Readings of Ibn Masʿūd in Kufan Fiqh and the Ḥanafī Madhhab,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 19, no. 1 (2017): 72-101. [download]; Arabic translation by Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fattah, Markaz Tafsir li-l-Dirāsa al-Qur’āniyya (2019). [download]

“The Revelation of Mercy in the Light of Islamic Theology,” Islamochristiana 42 (2016): 11-19. [download]

“The Preferences of al-Kisāʾī (d. 189/805): Grammar and Meaning in a Canonical Reading of the Qur’an,” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 29, no. 2 (2016): 313-32. DOI 10.1007/s11196-016-9463-z. [download].

Chapters

“Al-Māturīdī on the Cause (sabab) and Human Action between Kalām and Uṣūl al-Fiqh”. In Idris Nassery and Muna Tatari (eds.), Dynamics of Tradition: Islamic Theology and Law in Relation. Leiden: Brill, 2025. [download].

With David Solomon Jalajel, “Wise Design and the Metaphysics of Natural Evil: Al-Māturīdī’s Divinely Existentiated and Causally Coherent World”. In E. V. R. Kojonen and Shoaib A. Malik (eds.), Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions. London: Routledge, 2024, 75-90. [download].

“Whose Justice? When Māturīdī Meets MacIntyre”. In Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives and Global Directions, eds. Ramon Harvey and Daniel Tutt. International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2023. [download]

“Philosopher of Samarqand: Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī’s Theory of Properties,” in Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past, eds. Amber L. Griffioen and Marius Backmann. London: Palgrave, 2023. [download]

“Qur’anic Values and Modernity in Contemporary Islamic Ethics: Taha Abderrahmane and Fazlur Rahman in Conversation,” in Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives, eds. Mohammed Hashas and Mu’taz al-Khatib. Leiden: Brill, 2020. [download]

“Al-Māturīdī on the Abrogation of the Sharīʿa in the Qur’an and Previous Scriptures,” in İmâm Mâtürîdî ve Te’vîlâtü’l-Kur’ân, eds. Hatice K. Arpaguş, Mehmet Ümit and Bilal Kır. Istanbul: M.Ü. İlâhiyat Fakültesi Vakfı Yayınları, 2019. [download] [volume contents]

Encyclopaedia Entries

“Primordial Human Nature (fiṭra),” in St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, ed. Brendan N. Wolfe et al., 2024, [link]

“Theology, Islamic,” in Routledge Resources Online – Medieval Studies, eds. Hannele Klemettilä and Jo Van Steenbergen, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780415791182-RMEO476-1 [download]

Other

Review of An Introduction to Islamic Theology: Imam Nur al–Din al–Sabuni’s Al–Bidayah fi usul al–din, by Faraz A. Khan (Zaytuna college, 2020) in Nazariyat 8, no. 1 (2022), 190-94 [download]

Introducing “Transcendent God, Rational World: A Maturidi Theology”. https://themaydan.com/2021/08/introducing-transcendent-god-rational-world-a-maturidi-theology-ramon-harvey/

Review of Hanafi Maturidism: Trajectories of a Theological Legacy, with a Study and Critical Edition of al-Khabbazi’s Kitab al-Hadi by Ayedh Aldosari (Equinox Press, 2020) in Ilahiyat Studies 12, no 1 (2021) [download]

Review of Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities by Johanna Pink (Equinox Press, 2019), in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 23, no. 1 (2021) [download]

Review of A Place Between Two Places: The Qur’anic Barzakh by George Archer (Gorgias Press, 2017) in Journal of Islamic Studies, online April 1st 2019. [download]

“Justice and Mercy on the Scale,” Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College, Online: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/justice-and-mercy-on-the-scale

“Contextualising Islam in Britain II.” Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. 2012 (participant). [download].

“Certification of Halal Meat in the UK.” Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. 2011. [download]

“Interview with Professor M. A. S. Abdel Haleem.” Perspectives Issue 3. 2011, pp. 17-20. [download].