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Freedom: The Fixed and the Absolute, Dar al-Saqi, London 1995.
Mount Tabor: a Palestinian Story, the Kul- Shee Library, Haifa 2020
The Scout, or: Philosophy and Us, The Arab Institute for Research and Publication, Beirut 2025.
The Beginnings of Logic (Arabic), the Arab Studies Society, Jerusalem 1982.

No, Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution, with Mark Heller. FSG, New York 1993
Once Upon a Country: a Palestinian Life, with Anthony David, FSG, 2007
What’s a Palestinian State Worth? HUP, 2011.
Une Allumette Vaut-Elle Toute Notre Philosophie ? Flammarion, 2012.
The Story of Reason in Islam, Stanford, 2017
Avicenna’s al-Shifa’: Oriental Philosophy, Routledge 2018
No, Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution, with Mark Heller. FSG, New York 1993
Once Upon a Country: a Palestinian Life, with Anthony David, FSG, 2007
What’s a Palestinian State Worth? HUP, 2011
Une Allumette Vaut-Elle Toute Notre Philosophie ? Flammarion, 2012
The Story of Reason in Islam, Stanford, 2017
Avicenna’s al-Shifa’: Oriental Philosophy, Routledge 2018

« Amartya Sen and Identity », in Tabayyun ,issue 41-Vol/11/11, Summer 2022. Pp.133-152.
“The Capability Approach: From Sen to Nussbaum”, Tabayyun issue 42-Vol.11/11, Autumn 2022, pp.61-80.
“Civilization and Barbarism: Intersections and Differences”, Yatafakkarun, Issue 9, 2016, pp.132-163.
“Conscience and the Will: Their Freedoms in the Religious and Secular Spheres”, Yatafakkarun, Issue 17, 2015. Pp 72-80.

“Sound and Self: A Tentative Biography”, in Thinking without Borders: Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti. M. Mackenzie, A.Donahue and Anand Vaidya, eds. ( London,New York,Bloomsbury 2025). pp. 359-371.
“Is ‘One’ Unique?”, in Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamic World: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa (2Vols.) Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke (eds). (Brill 2023), pp.901-915.
“Are Miracles Possible? Avicenna Revisited”, in Religion in Reason: Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics in Hent de Vries, Tarek Dika and Martin Shuster (eds), (Taylor and Francis 2022), pp.108-128.
“Shehrazade and Hind Swaraj”, with Lucy Nusseibeh, in Politics, Ethics and the Self”, ed. R. Bhargava, Routledge, India, 2022.
“Correcting Wrongs: From Rhodes to Ben Gurion”, in Seminar 743 July 2021 pp 21-28.
“Islam: Philosophy and Law-making” Confluence: Journal of World Philosophies, 4. (2016). Retrieved from: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/confluence/article/view/560
“To Justice with Love”, in Philosophy without Borders, R.Weber and A.Chakrabarti (eds)., Bloomsbbury Academic, 2015.
“On Love”, in Human Alert. Ed.Hent de Vries. Columbia University Press, 2015.
“The Possible Worlds of Avicenna and Leibniz”, The Misty Land of Ideas and the Light of Dialogue: An Anthology of Comparative Philosophy, Western and Islamic. Ed. Ali Paya, ICAS Press, 2014.
“A Response to Five Critics”, Reason Papers 34,no 2 (2012), pp 57-69.
“Philosophical Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian War: Of Hedgehogs, Foxes and Swans; Of Folly, Faith and Miracles”, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, 29. Ed. Suzan Young. University of Utah. 2010.
“Avicenna: Providence and God’s Knowledge of Particulars”, Avicenna and His Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy, ed. Y.Zvi Langermann (Brepols 2009), pp.275-288.
“Islam, Islamic Philosophy and Peace”, Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: Proceedings of the Turin Symposium. A. Poma, L. Bertolino eds. Trauben 2008.
“Gewalt: Rationalitat Und Vernunftigkeit”, Gott, Rette Die Vernunft! Die Regensburger Vorlesung des Papstes in der philosophischen Diskussion”, pp 119-145. Sankt Ulrich Verlag, 2007.
“Is God part of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict of Rights, and should He remain so?”, in Does Human Rights Need God? Chicago: Eerdman 2005.
“A Formula for Narrative Selection: Jonathan Isacoff’s Commentary on Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict”, Perspectives on Politics (2005) Vol 3/No.1. pp 89-92.
“The Limit of Reason: (or Why Dignity is Not Negotiable), APA Newsletters, Vol 04, No.1. (Fall 2004), pp. 5-8. (Originally a paper read at a special philosophy panel organized by the APA).
“Cultural Clash and the Moralist Quest”, Philosopy, Culture and Traditions 7, 2001, pp 25-29.
“Personal and National Identity: A Tale of Two Wills”, Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, ed. Toman Kapitan, Sharpe 1997.
“Epistemology”, The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy, 2. Vols. ed. Oliver Leaman. Routledge 1995.
“Can Wars be Just?”, with Jean Elshtaine and others, in But Was it Just? Reflections of the Morality of the Gulf War. Doubleday 1992.
“Al-Aql Al-Qudsi: Avicenna’s Subjective Theory of Knowledge”, Studia Islamica (1989), 39-45.
“Avicenna: Medicine and Scepticism”, Koroth ,Vol.8,No. 1-2, 1981.
“Subaromic Particles and Scientific Posits”, with B. El-Issa, Technical Reports, Birzeit University, Vol.1, 1981. Pp 14-30.

(Avner Baz, When Words are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jun 2012.
(F. Zimmerman, Al-Farabi’s Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle’s De Interpretatione), History and Philosophy of Logic 13, 1992: 115-132.
(S.A. Nasr’s Islamic Life and Thought”), TLS, 1982: 267
(A, Badawi, Quelque figures et theme de la philosophie islamique), Asian and African Studies 14 (1980), 207-209.

(ed B. Orfali and M. Pomerantz, The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century), Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1) 102-3.
(Carlos Fraenkel, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World). Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 327-8.
(M. Saba, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report). Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 534-5.
(T. Christopher, How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages), Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 113-4.
(M. Al-Musawi, The Medieval Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge and Construction) Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 502-3.

On the Relevance of Philosophy in the Arab World Today, The Shlomo Pines Lecture, Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 2003.	Press here
Are possible facts real? An Avicennian vignette (Harvard, 2018)	Press here
Giving Voice to Conscience , Utrecht, the Koningsberger Lecture	Press here
The Archimedean Lever (London, the Max Perutz Lecture)	Press here
Identities in Conflict: Masters and Slaves (Leuven, The Multatuli lecture)	Press here
Justice: Rights and Values. The Annual Lecture on Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies (Arizona State University 2012)	Press here
The Pursuit of Happiness: Ibn Khaldun Revisited (Illinois, Chicago 2022)	Press here
Al-Aqsa: a Muslim’s View (Providence College, Rhode Island 2017)	Press here
On Belonging. (a Martin Buber event), Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, July 2020	Press here
Menahem Ya’ari (2010, 2025), Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. ( Moments)	Press here
Menahem Ya’ari (2010, 2025), Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. ( Freedom)	Press here
Tagore and Reflections on Freedom (Shimla, 2011)	Press here

“Sartawi’s Assassination”, Al-Fajr 12/4/1984.

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