Justin started following the work of Josef (Yousef) Meri أ.د. يوسف وليد مرعي ד"ר יוסף מרעי, University of Cambridge, Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations.
Justin started following the work of Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, History.
Justin updated 5 papers
New York University - Abu Dhabi
Faculty Member, Middle East Studies
Assistant Professor
About
Justin Stearns teaches in the Arab Crossroads Program at NYU - Abu Dhabi. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 2007, and recently published his first book, "Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean."
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
"Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean." (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2011).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Frontier of Gottfried Liedl: Situating the origins of European modernity in Naṣrid Granada,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, forthcoming.
“The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period: an initial consideration of fatwas from three Maghribi sources,” in Ahmed, Sadeghi, Bonner (eds.), The Islamic Scholarly Tradition: Studies in Islamic History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook on His Seventieth Birthday (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 265-90.
“Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia,” Medieval Encounters, v. 15 (2009), 355-74.
“New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death,” History Compass, v. 7 (2009), 1-13.
“Enduring the Plague: Ethical behavior in the fatwas of an 8th/14th century mufti and theologian,” in Muslim Medical Ethics: From Theory to Practice, eds. Jonathan Brockopp and Thomas Eich, University of South Carolina Press, 2008, 38-54.
“Contagion in Theology and Law: Ethical considerations in the writings of two 14th century scholars of Nasrid Granada,” Islamic Law and Society, v. 14 (2007), 109-29.
“Two Passages in Ibn al-Khatib’s Account of the Kings of Christian Iberia,” Al-Qantara, v. 25 (2004), 157-82.
BOOK REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
Entries for Hasan al-Yusi and Ibn al-Banna in Dictionary of African Biography, forthcoming 2011.
Entry on “Contagion” for the Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, 3rd edition (2010), 180-82.
Review of Avner Ben-Zaken, Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660, in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, forthcoming.
Review of Ahmad Dallal, Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 131 (2011), 45-48.
Review of Samer Akkach, Letters of A Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence of ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, in Review of Middle East Studies, v. 44 (2010), 62-63.
Review of R. Kevin Jaques, Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law, in Review of Middle East Studies, forthcoming 2010.
Joint review of Yasin Dutton, Original Islam: Malik and the Madhhab of Madina and Rüdiger Lohlker, Islamisches Völkerrecht: Studien am Beispiel Granada in al-Qantara, v. 30 (2009), 664-70.
Review of Rüdiger Lohlker, Islamisches Völkerrecht: Studien am Beispiel Granada, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, v. 41 (2009), 169-71.
Review of Los Almohades: Problemas y Perspectivas (eds. Cressier, Fierro, Molina) in International Journal of Middle East Studies, v. 40 (2008), 491-93.
(with William C. Jordan) Review of Stuart Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study in Speculum, v. 81 (2006), 1163-65.
