Justin Stearns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Stearns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Stearns |
| SIGNATURE | STEARNS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1765-7901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Wolf King
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies
This roundtable brings together contributions from nine senior, mid-career and junior scholars who work on the history of science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies. The contributions reflect upon some of the challenges that have historically constrained the subfield, how they have sought to overcome them, and what they see as some of the more productive and fruitful turns the field has taken and/or should take in the future. A central trend in all…
Race in the Islamicate Middle East
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Baghdad and Isfahan
Revealed Sciences
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco
In the late seventeenth century, the head of the Salihiyya Sufi lodge in the far south of Morocco, Abu al-ʿAbbas Sidi Ahmad al-Salihi al-Dar‘i (d. 1144/1731), wrote a poem of over a thousand lines on medicine, a long composition that went on to enjoy great popularity. The Worthy Gift of Medicine ( al-Hadiya al-maqbula fi l-tibb ) drew on a wide range of sources, including the Arab-Galenic tradition and Prophetic medicine, and in the fashion of th…
Orientalism Revisited
Recent calls to decolonize the curriculum have both built on work done over the past two decades in premodern studies and challenged it to go further. Particularly in light of the United States’ co
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. By Khaled el-Rouayheb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 399. $99.99, £64.99
Syrinx von Hees (dir.) Inḥiṭāṭ
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All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed”
The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developmen…
Infectious Ideas
The frontier of Gottfried Liedl
In a range of recent popular and scholarly surveys of the history and significance of al-Andalus, US scholars have emphasized that Muslim Iberia was characterized by attributes such as “tolerance,” and “cosmopolitanism.” This article aims to draw attention to the neglected work of a contemporary Austrian historian and philosopher, Gottfried Liedl, who in his Frontier trilogy has argued for the modernity of Naṣrid Granada from the thirteenth to th…
Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the Pre‐modern Muslim World
In recent years, the subject of science in the Muslim World in the pre‐modern period has largely been discussed in the context of two master narratives: (1) how and to what extent did Muslim scholarship influence European intellectual history, and (2) the nature of the decline of science and intellectual life in general in the Muslim world during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. This essay moves beyond these two narratives by first sum…
New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death 1
The past decade has seen the publications of numerous excellent studies on the Black Death. For the most part, however, scholars have been preoccupied with debating whether the Black Death was caused by plague or not, parallels between the first, second, and third plague pandemics, and broader historiographical questions of continuity and change. Less attention has been devoted to revisiting the religious responses of Christians, Muslims, and Jew…
Representing and Remembering al-Andalus
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI : 10.1163/157006709X458891 Medieval Encounters 15 (2009) 355-374 brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia Justin Stearns Department of Religion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA Abstract Th e place that al-Andalus o…
Contagion in Theology and Law
The Black Death, which struck al-Andalus in the second half of the 8th/14th century, was an unprecedented natural disaster. In this essay I examine the legal and ethical responses of two Granadan scholars to the social and intellectual challenge posed by this event. Whereas previous scholarship has almost universally lauded the stridently critical stance of the wazir Ibn al-Khatīb as an exceptional example of rational empiricism, I argue that his…
The Black Death in Egypt and England
Two passages in Ibn al-Khaṭīb's account of the kings of Christian Iberia
No disponible
Representing and Remembering al-Andalus
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI : 10.1163/157006709X458891 Medieval Encounters 15 (2009) 355-374 brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia Justin Stearns Department of Religion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA Abstract Th e place that al-Andalus o…
Orientalism Revisited
Recent calls to decolonize the curriculum have both built on work done over the past two decades in premodern studies and challenged it to go further. Particularly in light of the United States’ co
All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed”
The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developmen…
Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the Pre‐modern Muslim World
In recent years, the subject of science in the Muslim World in the pre‐modern period has largely been discussed in the context of two master narratives: (1) how and to what extent did Muslim scholarship influence European intellectual history, and (2) the nature of the decline of science and intellectual life in general in the Muslim world during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. This essay moves beyond these two narratives by first sum…
New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death 1
The past decade has seen the publications of numerous excellent studies on the Black Death. For the most part, however, scholars have been preoccupied with debating whether the Black Death was caused by plague or not, parallels between the first, second, and third plague pandemics, and broader historiographical questions of continuity and change. Less attention has been devoted to revisiting the religious responses of Christians, Muslims, and Jew…
Contagion in Theology and Law
The Black Death, which struck al-Andalus in the second half of the 8th/14th century, was an unprecedented natural disaster. In this essay I examine the legal and ethical responses of two Granadan scholars to the social and intellectual challenge posed by this event. Whereas previous scholarship has almost universally lauded the stridently critical stance of the wazir Ibn al-Khatīb as an exceptional example of rational empiricism, I argue that his…
Two passages in Ibn al-Khaṭīb's account of the kings of Christian Iberia
No disponible
The Black Death in Egypt and England
Contagion in Theology and Law
The Black Death, which struck al-Andalus in the second half of the 8th/14th century, was an unprecedented natural disaster. In this essay I examine the legal and ethical responses of two Granadan scholars to the social and intellectual challenge posed by this event. Whereas previous scholarship has almost universally lauded the stridently critical stance of the wazir Ibn al-Khatīb as an exceptional example of rational empiricism, I argue that his…
New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death 1
The past decade has seen the publications of numerous excellent studies on the Black Death. For the most part, however, scholars have been preoccupied with debating whether the Black Death was caused by plague or not, parallels between the first, second, and third plague pandemics, and broader historiographical questions of continuity and change. Less attention has been devoted to revisiting the religious responses of Christians, Muslims, and Jew…
Representing and Remembering al-Andalus
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI : 10.1163/157006709X458891 Medieval Encounters 15 (2009) 355-374 brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia Justin Stearns Department of Religion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA Abstract Th e place that al-Andalus o…
Infectious Ideas
The frontier of Gottfried Liedl
In a range of recent popular and scholarly surveys of the history and significance of al-Andalus, US scholars have emphasized that Muslim Iberia was characterized by attributes such as “tolerance,” and “cosmopolitanism.” This article aims to draw attention to the neglected work of a contemporary Austrian historian and philosopher, Gottfried Liedl, who in his Frontier trilogy has argued for the modernity of Naṣrid Granada from the thirteenth to th…
Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the Pre‐modern Muslim World
In recent years, the subject of science in the Muslim World in the pre‐modern period has largely been discussed in the context of two master narratives: (1) how and to what extent did Muslim scholarship influence European intellectual history, and (2) the nature of the decline of science and intellectual life in general in the Muslim world during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. This essay moves beyond these two narratives by first sum…
All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed”
The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developmen…
Syrinx von Hees (dir.) Inḥiṭāṭ
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revealed Sciences
Medicine, God, and the Unseen in Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco
In the late seventeenth century, the head of the Salihiyya Sufi lodge in the far south of Morocco, Abu al-ʿAbbas Sidi Ahmad al-Salihi al-Dar‘i (d. 1144/1731), wrote a poem of over a thousand lines on medicine, a long composition that went on to enjoy great popularity. The Worthy Gift of Medicine ( al-Hadiya al-maqbula fi l-tibb ) drew on a wide range of sources, including the Arab-Galenic tradition and Prophetic medicine, and in the fashion of th…
Orientalism Revisited
Recent calls to decolonize the curriculum have both built on work done over the past two decades in premodern studies and challenged it to go further. Particularly in light of the United States’ co
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. By Khaled el-Rouayheb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 399. $99.99, £64.99
Race in the Islamicate Middle East
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Baghdad and Isfahan
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies
This roundtable brings together contributions from nine senior, mid-career and junior scholars who work on the history of science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies. The contributions reflect upon some of the challenges that have historically constrained the subfield, how they have sought to overcome them, and what they see as some of the more productive and fruitful turns the field has taken and/or should take in the future. A central trend in all…
The Wolf King
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