Oliver Leaman

Oliver Leaman (born 1950) 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, 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 ("The Assault on the kalam" reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vo. 76, ed. J. Krstovic, Gale Group 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, London, Routledge, 2000. A Reader in Jewish Philosophy, 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 ['Introduction'] 2003. Lost in Translation: Essays in Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, Sarajevo: buybook, 2004 Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Islamic Surveys Series, 2004. The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, ed. O. Leaman, Routledge, 2006 Islamic Philosophy A-Z, with Peter Groff, Edinburgh University Press, 2007 Judaism : an introduction, London : I. B. Tauris, 2011 Controversies in Contemporary Islam, Routledge, 2013 The 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 Islamic Ritual and Practice, editor, Routledge, 2022