Revealed Sciences by Justin K Stearns
Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between religious thought and the natural sciences, Justin K. Stearns shows how nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars jointly developed a narrative of the decline of post-formative Islamic thought, including the fate of the natural sciences in the Muslim world. Challenging these depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world, Stearns uses numerous close readings of works in the natural sciences to a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the Early Modern Magreb, and considers non-teleological possibilities for understanding a persistent engagement with the natural sciences in Early Modern Morocco.-
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
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Child Custody in Islamic Law
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The Second Ottoman Empire
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The Holy City of Medina
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Arabic Poetics
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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran
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Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
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Animals in the Qur'an
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Mantle of the Sufi Kings
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Ibadi Muslims of North Africa
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Reassembling Knowledge
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Law and Politics under the Abbasids
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The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
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Empire and Power in the Reign of Suleyman
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Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought
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Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam
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Sexual Violation in Islamic Law
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Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily
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Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500
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Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750
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Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
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The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane
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The First of the Modern Ottomans
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Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire
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The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
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The Origins of the Shi'a
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The Second Formation of Islamic Law
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Opposing the Imam
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Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought
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Friends of the Emir
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The Economics of Ottoman Justice
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Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds
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Mannerism in Arabic Poetry
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Classical Arabic Biography
'Stearns exhibits a scholarly mastery over the subject of natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco with each section illuminating a dark spot in the history of science' Usman Butt, The New Arab
'This work represents a great advance in historical as well as sociological and anthropological approaches of natural sciences in Islamicate societies and opens up large perspectives for work by historians, naturalists and philologists.' Meyssa Ben Saad, Metascience
'[This book] provides a window onto the 'long Moroccan seventeenth century', a vanished Islamic intellectual world of integrated natural sciences, religion, and magic. … The book is quietly Herculean in labor. Stearns successfully navigates between the Scylla of Salafism and the Charybdis of modernist scientific thinking to bring us a new ocean of discovery, one true to the original Moroccan sources.' Ellen Amster, Isis
'This work represents a great advance in historical as well as sociological and anthropological approaches of natural sciences in Islamicate societies and opens up large perspectives for work by historians, naturalists and philologists.' Meyssa Ben Saad, Metascience
'[This book] provides a window onto the 'long Moroccan seventeenth century', a vanished Islamic intellectual world of integrated natural sciences, religion, and magic. … The book is quietly Herculean in labor. Stearns successfully navigates between the Scylla of Salafism and the Charybdis of modernist scientific thinking to bring us a new ocean of discovery, one true to the original Moroccan sources.' Ellen Amster, Isis
Justin K. Stearns is Associate Professor of Arab Crossroad Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi, where his research interests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. He is the author of Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean and al-Yusi: The Discourses (2011).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107065574 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107065577 |
| Title | Revealed Sciences |
| Author | Justin K Stearns |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Islamic Civilization |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-08 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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