19 Published BooksSophia Vasalou
Sophia is a Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu‘tazilite Ethics (2008), which won the Albert Hourani Book Award in 2009, and Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics (2015). She has previously held research fellowships at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the Orient-Institut Beirut, and Oxford Brookes University. During her LAL fellowship, Vasalou prepared a translation of al-Ḥawāmil wa-l-Shawāmil, a question-and-answer anthology written by 4th/10th century authors al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh.
