Lucian Stone
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Office: Merrifield 221B
Phone: (701) 777–3011
E-mail: Lucian.Stone@und.edu
Interests: Islamic Philosophy, Mystical Literature and Philosophy (esp. Sufism), Islamic Religion (esp. Shi‘ism), Iranian Intellectual History, Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Phenomenology and Theology, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Humor
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Dr. Stone is co-editor, along with Prof. Jason Mohaghegh (New Jersey City University) of the book series, Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought (Continuum).
Books and Edited Volumes:
• Coauthor, Simone Weil and Theology (Continuum, forthcoming 2012).
• Editor, Deadman’s Shadow: Collected Poems of Leonardo P. Alishan (Blind Owl Press / Mazda Publishers, 2011).
• Coeditor, The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (Continuum, 2010).
• Coeditor, The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Library of Living Philosophers Vol. XXVIII (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press, 2001).
Articles and Book Chapters:
• “Palestine, A Tragicomedy?” in Humanity & Society Volume 35, No. 3 (August 2011).
• Coauthor, “The ‘War’ on Error? Violent Metaphor and Words with Capital Letters,” in The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (Continuum, 2010).
• “Blessed Perplexity: The Topos of Hayrat in Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Mantiq al-tayr,” in The Art of Spiritual Flight: Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition, edited by Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shackle (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006).
• “Seyyed Hossein Nasr,” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Volume 3 (K-Q), ed. John R. Shook (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2005).
• “Perennial Philosophy Now: The Case of Wilayat-i faqih,” in The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr Library of Living Philosophers Vol. XXVIII, Eds. Hahn, Auxier, and Stone, (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press, 2001).
Translations and Reviews:
• E. Jane Doering, Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), in Theological Studies (June 2011).
• Jalal al-Din Rumi, Mystical Poems of Rūmi, Translated by A. J. Arberry, Edited by Ehsan Yarshater, and with a new foreword by Franklin D. Lewis (The University of Chicago Press, 2008) in The Mawlana Rumi Review Vol. 1 (2010).
• “Parables of Love: Tales of Leyla and Majnun from ‘Attar’s Musibat Nameh,” in Sufi: A Journal of Sufism 74 (Winter 2007).
Selected Professional Presentations:
• “Laughters: The Writing of Humor in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature,” at the 53rd Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), St. Louis, MO, 3-6 November 2011.
• “Doppelgangers, Contortion Artists, and Citizens of Nowhereland: New and Post Orientalism,” at the 50th Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 19-22 October 2011.
• “The Jew, The Arab: Simone Weil’s Enemies?” for The American Weil Society Annual Colloquy, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, 6-7 May 2011.
• “Not a Thing of Beauty: Aesthetic Resistance to Force in Iran,” at the Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Radical Philosophy Association, University of Oregon, November 11th-14th, 2010.
• “Bread and Flowers: The Transaesthetics of Iranian Cinema,” at The Center for Humanities, University of Missouri – St. Louis, March 30th, 2009.
• “Comic Tension: Christian and Islamic Mysticism” at The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, hosted by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (University of Nottingham), Rome, Italy, September 1st-4th, 2008.
• “Infinite Jest: A Study of Humor in the Works of Maulana Jalal-ad Din Muhammad Balkhi (Rumi),” at the International Congress of Maulana Jalal-ad Din Muhammad Balkhi (Rumi), Tehran, Iran, October 28th-Nov.2nd, 2007.
• “Between Two Worlds: Islamic Perspectives on Ecology,” at University of Wisconsin Green Bay, April 12th, 2006.
• “Re-creation Towards De-creation: ‘Work’ in the Writings and Life of Simone Weil,” at the 43rd Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, October 28th-30th, 2004.
• “Deciphering the Skein of Light: The Ontological Implications of Color as Depicted in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Gabbeh” at the Third Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies May 25th-28th, 2000 in Bethesda, MD.
• “ONE: A Comparison of ‘Attar, al-Sohravardî and Mulla Sadra” presented at the World Congress on Mulla Sadra (Tehran, Iran: May 23rd-27th 1999).