Books by Alex McKinley
Journal Articles by Alex McKinley
Journal of Asian Studies, 2022
Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2021
South Asian History and Culture, 2020
SAGAR: A South Asia Research Journal, 2017
This article analyses M.C. Siddi Lebbe’s (d. 1898) Sufi treatise, Asrarul Alam (Mysteries of the ... more This article analyses M.C. Siddi Lebbe’s (d. 1898) Sufi treatise, Asrarul Alam (Mysteries of the Universe), with attention to the literary networks operating among late nineteenth-century South Asian Muslims. The diversity of Lebbe’s source material and complexity of his argumentation signal his broad engagement with Islamic thought old and new, foreign and local, Arabic and Tamil. Furthermore, Lebbe cast his literary network especially wide, incorporating non-Islamic ideas like theosophy and yoga from Euro- American and Indic sources as foils for the explication of Sufism. This philosophical mosaic in turn sparked debate among Muslim scholars. Asrarul Alam became an impetus for identity definition in a controversy that involved high stakes in translation choices and the unique complexities of works by a trilingual author such as Lebbe.
Book Chapters by Alex McKinley
The Meaning and Power of Negativity, 2021
Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, 2020
Book Reviews by Alex McKinley
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2024
Review of Arianne Conty's "Grounding God: Religious Responses to the Anthropocene"
The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 2022
Review Essay of:
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, an... more Review Essay of:
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 2018
Teaching Documents by Alex McKinley
A teaching module designed for the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies in 2019
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Books by Alex McKinley
Journal Articles by Alex McKinley
Book Chapters by Alex McKinley
Book Reviews by Alex McKinley
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Teaching Documents by Alex McKinley
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.