Joseph Kenny
O.P.

PUBLICATIONS (* = unpublished apart from the web)
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  1. (1964) Singing the responsory. Worship, Vol. 38:3, 169-174.
  2. (1964) Mass stipends: origin and relevance. The Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 64:10, 842-850. This goes together with the following postscript:
  3. (1966) Mass stipends: doctrinal problems. The Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 66:4, 306-311.
  4. (1967) Islam-Christian dialog, a conversation. Listening, Current Studies in Dialog, 2:3, 214-221.
  5. (1968) Adaptation for Christian marriage among the Maguzawa, Neue Zeitschrift fur Missionswissenschaft, 24:2, 133-144.
  6. (1970) Muhammad. Hebrew Encyclopaedia (Jerusalem), Vol. 22, Columns 1010-1016. Superseded by Early Islam.
  7. (1970) Reassessment of apostolate among Muslims. International Review of Mission, Vol. 39, 32-38.
  8. (1970) Bibliography of Islam in the North of Nigeria and surrounding areas. Melanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales (Cairo), Vol. 10, 329-340. Superseded by Bibliography of (1999) The spread of Islam through North to West Africa 7th to 19th centuries, a historical survey with relevant Arab documents.
  9. (1970) Muslim spirituality. Cross and Crown, Vol. 22, 306-314.
  10. *(1970) Muslim theology as presented by Muhammad b. Yûsuf as-Sanûsî, especially in his al-`aqîda al-wustâ, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1970. With edition of Arabic text and translation (uses AraTransRoman.ttf).
  11. *(1970) The `Abdalwâd kingdom of Tilimsân — the political background of M. b. Y. as-Sanûsî (uses AraTransRoman.ttf).
  12. *(1970) The vocabulary of Kalâm as found in the works of Muammad ibn-Yûsuf as-Sanûsî (uses AraTransRoman.ttf).
  13. (1971) Islam in Christian history, a sketch. Bodija Bulletin, n.6. Reprinted in Nigerian Dialogue, n.1, 24-35. Superseded by last chapter of Early Islam.
  14. (1971) Usman Dan Fodiye's Elements of religion (Usûl ad-dîn) - Bodija Bulletin n.6 (1971), 24-26
  15. (1971-72) Towards better understanding of Muslims and Christians. Nigerian Journal of Islam, Vol. 2, N. 1, 51-54.
  16. (1972) Studia Semitica, by E.I.J. Rosenthal, vol. 1 Jewish themes (review). Orita 6:1, 51-53.
  17. (1973) Islam - History and present tendencies. Omnis Terra (Rome), n. 53, 314-326. Reprinted in(1974) Encounter (Rome), N. 6.
  18. (1974) & Tapiero, E. & Fitzgerald, M.L. & The pillars of Islam. Encounter, N.3, 1-13. Superseded by (1998) Basic Practices of Islam and Christianity.
  19. (1975) Twenty-five years in Nigeria, a special issue of Dominican Life, 20:1. Incorporated in chapters of (2001) The Province of St. Joseph the Worker (Nigeria and Ghana) 1951-2001: Dominicans at 50.
  20. (1977) Judaeo-Christianity in the background of Islam. Nigerian Dialogue, N. 2, 55-57. Incorporated in Early Islam.
  21. (1977) Oyelade, E.O. & Changes in Christian-Muslim relations since Independence. Nigerian Dialogue, n.2, 6-10.
  22. (1977) The dignity of man vis-a-vis the religions. Nigerian Dialogue, N. 2, 59-60.
  23. *(1977) The formation of Dominicans in a Muslim environment: Ibadan Presented at Journées Romaines Dominicaines, 1977.
  24. *(1977) The Church and Islam in Nigeria A review of the national campaign for Sharî`a.
  25. (1979) Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria. Islamochristiana (Rome), N.5, 171-192.
  26. (1980) The Deuterocanonical portion of the Hausa Bible, Littafi Mai Tsarki. London. The United Bible Society. (Translators' names do not appear in the book, but I have a letter of attestation for the exact section of the Bible for which I am responsible.)
  27. (1980) Nigeria: three significant events for Muslim-Christian relations. Islamochristiana, N. 6, 238-239.
  28. (1980) & Mala, S.B. Muslim use of Christian Scriptures. West African Religions, Vols. 2-3, 31-41.
  29. (1981) A seventeenth century Belgian visitor to Agadez and the North of Nigeria: Pieter Farde. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 10:4, 73-89. Incorporated in (2001) The Catholic Church in Nigeria, 1486-1850, a documentary history.
  30. (1981) Islam and Christianity, a Muslim and a Christian in dialogue, by Badru D. Kateregga & David W. Shenk. Reviewed in Nigerian Christian, 15:2 (Feb.), 12.
  31. (1982) Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. A case of competitive sharing. Nigerian Dialogue, N. 4, 5-8.
  32. (1982) Islamic Sufism: Experience and organization. Nigerian Dialogue, N.4, 11-16.
  33. (1982) Islam and revolution, writings and declarations of Imam Khomeini. Reviewed in Orita, 14:2, 163-164.
  34. (1982) The relevance of theology to the ordinary life of Muslims in Nigeria. Orita, 14:2, 154-159.
  35. (1983) The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850. Ibadan & Lagos. University of Ibadan Publishing House & Dominican Publications.
  36. (1983) Maliki law and the Risâla of Ibn-Abî-Zayd al-Qayrawânî. Hamdard Islamicus (Karachi), 6:3, 63-71. Incorporated in (1992) The Risâla of Ibn-abî-Zayd al-Qayrawânî, an annotated translation.
  37. (1984) Religious movements in Nigeria, divisive or cohesive? Some interpretative models. Orita, 16:2, 111-128.
  38. *(1984) The ethics of war and peace emerging from the Sîra of Ibn-Ishâq.
  39. (1984) West African Christianity, by Lamin Sanneh. Reviewed in Orita, 16:1, 67-68
  40. (1984) Shari'a in Nigeria. Bulletin on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (Birmingham), 4:1, 1-21. and the French: (1986) La Shari'a au Nigeria: Aperçu historique, Bulletin - L'Islam et les relations islamo-chretiennes en Afrique, 4:1, 1-22. Written for Consultation of the Christian Councils in West Africa on Christian-Muslim Relations, Monrovia, 25-28 November 1984, in partial proceedings edited by N. Idarous, pp. 71-76. "The Shari'a question in Nigeria: A historical survey," Ch. 11 in E. Ikenga Metuh (ed.), The gods in retreat: Continuity and change in African religion (Enugu. Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1986), 245-256. Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue (Cape Coast, 1987), pp. 30-37 (followed by my "Sharî`a: Implications for the Church in West Africa", pp. 37-50. In C.S. Momoh (ed.), Religions & their doctrines, vol. 1 of Nigerian Studies in Religious Tolerance (Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, & National Association for Religious Tolerance, 1989), 337-345.
  41. (1985) Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria. Ch. 7 in R.W. Rousseau (ed.), Christianity and Islam: The struggling dialogue. Scranton, PA. Ridge Row Press. This is a reprint of.
  42. *(1985) Islam, a social and political force in Nigeria today A survey of trends in Islam up to this time.
  43. (1986) & Mala, S.B. Designing courses on dialogue. Orita, 18:2, 103-106.
  44. (1986) The O.I.C. in Nigeria: the press debate. Shalom (Oraifite), 4:3, 130-150. Incorporated in (1996) Sharî`a and Christianity in Nigeria: Islam and a 'secular' state. Part II: Islamic revival in confrontation with Christians.
  45. (1986) Muslim-Christian dialogue in Nigeria, by V. Chukwulozie. Reviewed in Orita, 18:2, 107-110.
  46. *(1986) The dynamism of Islam in West Africa for AECAWA General Assembly, 1986.
  47. (1987) The economic dimension of Islam in West African history, in Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue. Cape Coast, 84-90. (authorship identified in letter)
  48. (1987) Islamic monotheism: Principles and consequences, in Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue. Cape Coast, 139-149. (authorship identified in letter)
  49. (1987) Arab aid and influence in tropical Africa, in Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue. Cape Coast, 77-83. (authorship identified in letter)
  50. (1987) Pastoral aspects of relations with Muslims. Written for Consultation of the Christian Councils in West Africa on Christian-Muslim Relations, Monrovia, 25-28 November 1984 Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa, Christianity and Islam in dialogue (Cape Coast, 1987), pp. 185-8
  51. (1988) L'Eglise et l'Islam en Afrique de l'ouest au XXe siecle (avec une référence particulière au Nigeria), in G. Ruggieri (ed.), Eglise et Histoire de l'Eglise en Afrique. Paris. Beauchesne, 189-215. English: The Church and Islam in West Africa in the 20th Century (with particular reference to Nigeria)
  52. (1988) Sacrifice: Philosophical, theological and comparative probes. Orita, 20:2, 127-137.
  53. (1988) Pornography, a Muslim-Christian comparative perspective. Proceedings of the National Seminar on Pornography, organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan; and D.C.E. Ugwuigbu (ed), Youth and pornography. Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, 1989, 47-60 (omits appendices that are in Proceedings)
  54. (1988) Mary and Islam. Proceedings of Symposium organized by the Inter-diocesan Liturgy Commission for Igbo-speaking Areas of Nigeria, 21-22 July 1988. Printed in The Leader, 14 August 1988 (p. 6) & 28 August 1988 (p. 5). Incorporated in (2000) Jesus and Mary in Islam, a Christian look.
  55. (1989) Aux sources des mouvements radicaux dans l'Islam, in Cahiers des Religions Africaines: Kinshasa, Centre d'Etudes des Religions Africaines, 23, n. 45-46, 135-140.
  56. (1989) The Sharî`a question in Nigeria: A historical survey. In C.S. Momoh (ed.), Religions & their doctrines, vol. 1 of Nigerian Studies in Religious Tolerance. Lagos. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, & National Association for Religious Tolerance, 337-345. Incorporated in (1993) Sharî`a and Christianity in Nigeria: Islam and a 'secular' state, Part I: Sharî`a and Islamic revival in Nigeria.
  57. *(1989) Dominicans and Muslims in Nigeria A report sent to the Journées Romaines Dominicaines, September 1989.
  58. (1989) Meeting in faith, hope and love, Akede Igbagbo, 2, 24-26. - originally given to the National Conference of Sisters.
  59. (1990) The sources of radical movements in Islam. Skepticos, n. 1, 19-22.
  60. (1990) The Small Catechism, Umm al-barâhîn, or al-`aqîda as-sughrâ of Muhammad ibn-Yûsuf as-Sanûsî (d. 1490), translated and annotated. Hamdard Islamicus, 13:4, 49-64.
  61. (1990) Early evangelization of Benin. Bodija Journal, n. 2, 71-75.
  62. *(1990) Le recherche de Dieu parmi les musulmans. A short note on Sufism done in Kinshasa.
  63. (1991) Islam and Christology, delivered at the 5th National Conference of the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria (CATHAN), April 1990. Nigerian Journal of Theology, 1:6 (May), 28-49. Incorporated in (2000) Jesus and Mary in Islam, a Christian look.
  64. (1991) La foi chretienne en dialogue avec l'Islam. Quelle Eglise pour l'Afrique du troisième millenaire? Actes du XVIIIe Semaine Théologique de Kinshasa (Kinshasa. Les Facultés Catholiques), 165-184.
  65. (1991) Medicine in Islam, in Frank Salamone (ed.), Art and culture of Nigeria and the diaspora: New York. Studies in Third World Society.
  66. (1992) The Risâla of Ibn-abî-Zayd al-Qayrawânî, an annotated translation. Minna. Islamic Education Trust.
  67. (1992?) Alien but part of us: the Muslim world Sunday Visitor, exact date?
  68. (1992?) Chrétiens en dialogue avec les musulmans. Colombe (Kinshasa, exact issue?)
  69. (1992) Religious freedom: the basis of dialogue. Encounter, Documents for Muslim-Christian understanding (Rome), n.181-182 (January-February). First given at a Conference at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, in Dec. 1989. Superceded by (1999) Views on Christian-Muslim relations.
  70. (1992) The challenge of Islam in Nigeria. West African Journal of Ecclesial Studies, 4, 46-58 incorporates an "The dynamism of Islam in West Africa" (for AECAWA, 1986) with an earlier talk to the Ibadan North deanery.
  71. (1992) Muhammad and the rise of Islam, a critical presentation of the background and major Muslim sources. Ibadan. Superseded by Early Islam.
  72. (199?) Sanûsî, Muhammad ibn-Yûsuf. Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed.: Leiden, E.J. Brill. Commissioned, accepted and paid for, but not used.
  73. (199?) Islamic studies programmes and literature review. for AECAWA & POCMURA published in Procmura, 5:? —elaborated for web
  74. (1993 to 1998) Among Muslims, Independent (an Ibadan Archdiocesan newspaper), a regular column, in which 193 of my articles have appeared (most in this link).
  75. (1993) The Sokoto jihâd: implications of Oyo's economic structure. Ife Journal of History, 1:1, 1-20, incorporated in The spread of Islam (2000). Incorporated in (2000) The spread of Islam through North to West Africa 7th to 19th centuries, a historical survey with relevant Arab documents.
  76. (1994) Oyo. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.: Leiden. E.J. Brill.
  77. (1994) Powerful titles of Jesus in the Bible. Lagos. Dominican Publications.
  78. (1994) La philosophie du monde arabe. Kinshasa. Les Facultés Catholiques. Superseded by (2000) La philosophie du monde musulmane, auteurs et thèmes principaux.
  79. *(1994) Islam and politics in Nigeria: the aborted Third Republic The religious dimension of the Abiola election.
  80. *(1994) Le pouvoir et l'attraction de l'Islam — a talk in Kinshasa.
  81. *(1994) The power and attraction of Islam — English version of the same.
  82. (1995) The spiritualist heresy. Skepticos, 1:5, 42-43.
  83. (1995) Daily Psalms and Canticles Lagos: Dominican Publications. New translation based on text established by M. Dahood. Revision ready for publication.
  84. (1996) The significance of the Resurrection. The hope (Cathedral Church of Our Saviour, Ijasi, Ijebu-Ode), 1:1, 6-7.
  85. (1996) Al-Fârâbî and the contingency argument for God's existence: a study of Risâla Zaynûn al-kabîr al-yûnânî Orita 28, 50-69.
  86. (1996) Sharî`a and Christianity in Nigeria: Islam and a 'secular' state. Journal of Religion in Africa, 26:4, 338-364. An abridgement of paper delivered at Yale 1992. Full text: Part I: Sharî`a and Islamic revival in Nigeria. Part II: Islamic revival in confrontation with Christians.
  87. (1996) Reasons for the faith against Muslim objections (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians) to the Cantor of Antioch, by Saint Thomas Aquinas. Islamochristiana (Rome), 31-52.
  88. *(1996)Clé du dialogue avec nos frères musulmanes, with preface by Cardinal Frédéric Etsou, for publication in Kinshasa.
  89. (1997) Islamic ethics: What the Qur'ân says. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 12 pp.
  90. (1997) Teaching ethnicity and religion in Nigeria. The Insight (Claretians, Enugu), 14:1, 20-23.
  91. (1997) Comparative concepts in the Bible and the Qur'ân. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 16 pp.
  92. (1997) Theological themes common to Islam and Christianity, Part 1: Islamic themes. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  93. (1997) Comparative concepts in the Bible and the Qur'ân. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  94. (1997) Early Islam. Lagos. Dominican Publications (a revision and amplification of Muhammad and the rise of Islam (1992).
  95. (1997) The Islamic solution to the problem of Nigeria in distress, a critique of the Islamic perspective. Glory Magazine, 10:1, 13. (the editor messed up the title)
  96. (1997) Peace among people of different religions — talk to the Centre for Applied Religion and Society (CEFDARS), Ibadan (directed by Dr. A.O.S. Ogbeide), a branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), based in Holland, on the occasion of peace awards at Parliament House on 9-11-96; core of it printed in Nassorine (Religious Studies students magazine) 1:1, 1-2.
  97. *(1997)The Holy Spirit: what He can mean to Muslims — given at meeting of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, Enugu, 22 October 1997.
  98. (1998) A bee-keeping scrapbook, Nigerian Field, 63:85-88.
  99. (1998) Basic practices of religion in Nigeria, Part 1: Islam. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  100. (1998) Basic practices of religion in Nigeria, Part 2: Christianity. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  101. (1998) Ibn-Sînâ on the human soul, in Notes and observations on natural science, Book II, Section 5. Orita, 29, 68-98.
  102. (1998) The Dominican Province of Nigeria, in Philippe Denis, History of the Dominican Order in Africa.
  103. (1998) The human intellect: Journey of an idea from Aristotle to Ibn-Rushd. Orita, 30.
  104. *(1998) Saints and sinners among early Dominicans, Gerald de Frachet's Vitas Fratrum - awaiting Simon Tugwell's critical edition of the original Latin, so as to revise the translation.
  105. (1999 to present) Wisdom words of Thomas Aquinas, Independent column.
  106. (1999) Facing ethnicity and religion: a concern in Nigerian education. Chapter 5, pp. 49-56, in E.E. Uwazie, I.O. Albert & G.N. Uzoigwe, Inter-ethnic and religious conflict resolution in Nigeria. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Lexington Books. Originally paper for NISER workshop, February 1997.
  107. (1999) Christian-islamic preambles of faith; an exercise in philosophy of religion or kalâm for our day, modeled after the Summa Contra Gentiles, Books I-III of Thomas Aquinas. Washington D.C.. The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. ISBN 1-56518-138-7. 198pp. Internet: http://www.crvp.org.
  108. (1999) Views on Christian-Muslim relations. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  109. *(1999) Philosophy of nature for course at Dominican Institute, Ibadan.
  110. (1999) God the Father — written for Glory 1999, sent to Independent.
  111. *(1999) Dialogue, the solution or the problem? (written in Cairo 1999, in ref. to art. by M. Talbi).
  112. *(1999) Thomas Aquinas, Islam and the Arab philosophers — an outgrowth of "Saint Thomas et l'Islam," paper sent to Colloque international: Les Dominicains et le monde musulman, Aix-en-Provence, 8-10 avril 1999 (Association pour l'Histoire de l'Ordre de Saint Dominique en Europe).
  113. *(1999) Thomas Aquinas and Islam, a bibliography
  114. *(1999)Saint Thomas, eschatology and virtual reality.
  115. (2000) Theological themes common to Islam and Christianity: Part 2, Christian themes. Lagos: Dominican Publications, 56 pp.
  116. (2000) Jesus and Mary in Islam, a Christian look. Lagos: Dominican Publications (reprint of "Islamic Christology, a Christian evaluation" (1991) and "Mary as Muslims know her" (1988).
  117. (2000) The spread of Islam through North to West Africa 7th to 19th centuries, a historical survey with relevant Arab documents. Lagos: Dominican Publications.
  118. (2000) The Muqaddima, an introductory summary of kalâm (Arabic). Hamdard Islamicus, 23:2 (April-June 2000), 31-40.
  119. (2000) (with Michel Cuypers) Rhetorical structure in the Qur'ânh, Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, 32, pp. 1-19.
  120. *(2000) La philosophie du monde musulmane, auteurs et thèmes principaux.
  121. *(2000) Philosophy of the Muslim world, authors and principal themes, accepted for publication by the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (Washington, D.C.).
  122. *(2000) The push for Sharî`a A talk on the Muslim programme, "Trends and Perspectives", M.I.T.V. Lagos, aired 20 August 2000.
  123. *(2000) Bibliography of al-Kindî, Qustâ ibn-Lûqâ, Ishâq ibn-Hunayn, Muhammad ar-Râzî, al-Fârâbî, Ibn-Masarra, Miskawayh, Ibn-Sînâ, Ibn-Gabirol, Ibn-Bajja, Ibn-Tufayl, Ibn-Rushd, M.b.M. Ibn-Rushd, Moshe ben Maimon.
  124. *(2000) The chronology of the works of Ibn-Rushd
  125. *(2000) Christianity, Islam and the social order. Paper for National Inter-Faith Conference, U.I., 24 June 2000. Is development of "Sharî`a and Christianity", paper given at symposium organized by the Christian Fathers, St. Dominic's, Yaba, 17-6-20.
  126. *(2000) Reconciliation for Nigeria. Delivered at monthly forum of Catholic Secretariat, Lagos, 14 May 2000.
  127. (2001) Chapters on history of the Dominicans in Nigeria, in The Province of St. Joseph the Worker (Nigeria and Ghana) 1951-2001: Dominicans at 50 (Yaba, Lagos: St. Dominic's Catholic Church).
  128. (2001) Ibn-Masarra: His Risâla al-i`tibâr. Forthcoming in Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies.
  129. *(2001) The Catholic Church in Nigeria, 1486-1850, a documentary history original documents with translations.
  130. *(2001) Daily Psalms and Canticles in original languages.
  131. *(2001) Rapport with Muslims — Talk to the laity of Ijebu-Ode diocese, at Diocesan Inter-religious Dialogue Commission seminar, 25 August 2001.
  132. *(2001) The Psalms in Hausa and The Canticles in Hausa. Translation by Musa Danjuma and Joseph Kenny, O.P. (the same who translated the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible published by the Bible Society), following the format of the Hebrew and English editions above. To read it, download the font Hausa.zip.
  133. *(2002) Sharî`a on State level Comments in response to some Muslim reactions to the Federal Attorney General's calling State Sharî`a courts unconstitutional.
  134. *(2002) Islam: authentic or fanatical? A paper given at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, 8 June 2002, at Purdue University.
  135. (2002) The Church, a light to the nations, chapter in Deji Ayegboyin, Ecumenism.

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