Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Pre-modern Islamic intellectual history; Sufism; falsafa; Qur'an commentaries; theories of love and beauty in Islam (and comparative theological aesthetics); prophets in Islam; Islam in Persianate lands.
Biographical details
Kazuyo Murata holds a PhD in Islamic Studies with a joint MPhil in Medieval Studies from Yale University, and a BA (summa cum laude) in both Philosophy and Religious Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has broad academic training in the study of religion, philosophy, medieval intellectual history, and Arabic and Persian literature.
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Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Rūzbihān Baqlī on Beauty
Murata, K., 2022, Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe. Sperl, S. & Dedes, Y. (eds.). Oxford: OUP/British Academy, p. 148-168 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī
Murata, K., 22 Dec 2022, Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation: Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata. Rustom, M. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 18-29Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Beauty in Sufism: The Teachings of Rūzbihān Baqlī
Murata, K., Jan 2018, Albany: SUNY Press. 212 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Fana and Baqa
Murata, K., 24 Jul 2018, Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press, USAResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry in encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
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Āyīna-ya jamāl-i ilāhī: Abʿād-i zībāyī-yi ilāhī wa Ādam bih ʿunwān-i jilwagāh-i ān dar dīdgāh-i Rūzbihān-i Baqlī-yi Shīrāzī
Translated title of the contribution :The Mirror of Divine Beauty: Adam as a Paragon of Beauty according to Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities
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Well-being and Contemplative Life through a Sufi Lens
Kazuyo Murata (Speaker)
15 Nov 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Sufi Conception of Beauty: The Case of Rūzbihān Baqlī
Kazuyo Murata (Speaker)
20 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Sufism and the Pursuit of Happiness
Kazuyo Murata (Speaker)
4 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Routledge (Publisher)
Kazuyo Murata (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Faces of the Infinite
Kazuyo Murata (Invited speaker)
11 Nov 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Prizes
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Elected as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Murata, Kazuyo (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Election to learned society
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Elected as a member of the Royal Asiatic Society
Murata, Kazuyo (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Election to learned society