David Bakewell Burrell CSC (March 1, 1933 – October 1, 2023) was an American educator, theologian, writer and translator who was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was the Theodore Hesburgh Professor emeritus in Philosophy and Theology at University of Notre Dame, US.^[1]

He wrote around thirteen books on Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. He knew several languages; he translated two books of Al-Ghazali from Arabic into English. He also taught comparative theology, ethics and development at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, Uganda; Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya; and Hebrew University, Jerusalem.^[1][2] During 1960s, he was involved in Anti-Vietnam War Movement.^[2] He was also a professor at Notre Dame University Bangladesh.^[3] Burrell died in Notre Dame, Indiana on October 1, 2023, at the age of 90.^[4]

• Burrell, David (1973). Analogy and Philosophical Language. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01567-6.
• —— (1974). Exercises in Religious Understanding. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00548-1.
• —— (1979). Aquinas: God and Action. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00588-7.
• —— (1986). Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-01226-7.
• —— (1993). Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00987-8.
• ——; Elena Malits (1997). Original Peace: Restoring God's Creations. Paulist. ISBN 978-0-8091-3733-6.
• —— (2000). Friendship and Ways to Truth. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-02860-2.
• —— (2004). Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective. Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-2170-5.
• —— (2008). Deconstructing Theodicy: A Philosophical Commentary on Job. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos. ISBN 978-1-58743-222-4.
• —— (2009). When Faith and Reason Meet: The Legacy of John Zahm CSC. Notre Dame, IN: Corby Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9776458-9-3.
• —— (2010). Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions. University of Scranton Press. ISBN 978-1-58966-195-0.
• —— (2011). Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-65755-3.

• Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God (translation from Arabic with Nazih Daher) (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992; Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 1998)
• Al-Ghazali on Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence (translation of Book 35 of Ihya' Ulum al-Din) (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000)
• Roger Arnaldez's Three Messengers for one God (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998) – with Mary Louise Gude, C.S.C. and Gerald Schlabach
• Avital Wohlman's Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur'an: Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam (London: Routledge, 2009) – translated from Contrepoint entre le sens commun et la philosophy en Islam: Ghazali et Averroès (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2008)