Devin J. Stewart
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Devin J. Stewart's Degrees
- PhD Islamic Studies Princeton University
- Masters Islamic Studies Princeton University
- Bachelors Religion Dartmouth College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Devin J. Stewart is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic language and literature. His research interests include Islamic law, the Qur'an, Islamic schools and branches and varieties of Arabic. Education Stewart graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University in 1984 after completing a 143-page long senior thesis titled "Three Wise Men: The Safawi Religious Institution 1576 - 1629." He completed the Center for Arabic Study Abroad's program at the American University in Cairo, and then earned his PhD with distinction in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Pennsylvania six years later.
Devin J. Stewart's Published Works
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- The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education (1992) (247)
- Notes on the Migration of ʿĀmilī Scholars to Safavid Iran (1996) (45)
- Popular shiism in Medieval Egypt: vestiges of Islamic sectarian polemics in Egyptian Arabic (1996) (35)
- On Islamic Historiography (2019) (34)
- Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (1998) (34)
- Clitic Reduction in the Formation of Modal Prefixes in the Post-Classical Arabic Dialects and Classical Arabic SA-/ SAWFA (1998) (28)
- Sajc in the Qur'an: Prosody and Structure (1990) (27)
- The First Shaykh al-Islām of the Safavid Capital Qazvin@@@The First Shaykh al-Islam of the Safavid Capital Qazvin (1996) (25)
- Polemics and patronage in Safavid Iran: The debate on Friday prayer during the reign of Shah Tahmasb (2009) (18)
- A Biographical Notice on Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1030/1621)@@@A Biographical Notice on Baha al-Din al-Amili (d. 1030/1621) (1991) (17)
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE FIHRIST: IBN AL-NADIM AS HISTORIAN OF ISLAMIC LEGAL AND THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS (2007) (11)
- The Portrayal of an Academic Rivalry: Najaf and Qum in the Writings and Speeches of Khomeini, 1964–78 (2001) (10)
- The humor of the scholars: the autobiography of Ni'mat Allah al‐Jaza'iri (d. 1112/1701) (1989) (10)
- IMPOLITENESS FORMULAE THE COGNATE CURSE IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC (1997) (10)
- Law and education in medieval Islam : studies in memory of Professor George Makdisi (2004) (10)
- Literary Heritage of Classical Islam: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of James A. Bellamy (1995) (8)
- African urbanization: dependent linkages in a global economy. (1997) (8)
- Divine Epithets and the Dibacchius: Clausulae and Qur'anic Rhythm (2013) (8)
- Dissimulation in Sunni Islam and Morisco Taqiyya (2013) (7)
- Editing the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm (2014) (6)
- Poetic License in the Qur'an: Ibn al-?a?igh al-?anafi's I?kam al-ray fi a?kam al-ay (2009) (6)
- Essays in Arabic literary biography (2009) (5)
- Al-Ṭabarī’s Kitāb Marātib al-ʿUlamāʾ and the Significance of Biographical Works Devoted to ‘the Classes of Jurists’ (2013) (5)
- ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿāmilī's Treatise for Sultan Suleiman and the Shīʿī Shāfiʿī Legal Tradition (1997) (5)
- An Episode in the ‘Amili Migration to Safavid Iran: Husayn b. ‘Abd al-Samad al-‘Amili's Travel Account (2006) (5)
- A Ternary Domanial Structure as a Basis for Cybernetics and its Place in Knowledge (1989) (5)
- A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat: A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text (2002) (5)
- The Ottoman Execution of Zayn al-Dīn al-'Āmilī (2008) (5)
- Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition (2014) (5)
- Consensus, Authority, and the Interpretive Community in the Thought of Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (2016) (4)
- Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law: The Surūshian Paradigm in Shi'i Epistemology. By Ashk Dahlén. (Acta Universityatis Upsaliensis. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 5). p. 366. Stockholm, Elanders Gotab, 2001. (2002) (4)
- Law and education in medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi (2001) (4)
- On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's Fayṣal al-Tafriqa@@@On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Faysal al-Tafriqa (2004) (4)
- Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence (2008) (4)
- Ibn al-Nadīm's Ismāʿīlī Contacts (2008) (3)
- The mysterious letters and other formal features of the Qurʾān in light of Greek and Babylonian oracular texts (2012) (3)
- Introductory Oaths and the Question of Composite Surahs (2020) (3)
- 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists (2014) (2)
- The lost biography of Baha’Al‐din Al‐camili and the reign of Shah Ismacil ii in Safavid historiography (1998) (2)
- Of rhetoric, reason, and revelation: Ibn al-Jawzī’s Maqāmāt as an anti-parody and Sefer Taḥkemoni of Yehudah al-Ḥarīzī (2016) (2)
- Law and Society in Islam (2019) (2)
- The Maqāmāt of Amad b. Abī Bakr b. Amad al-Rāzī al-anafī and the Ideology of the Counter-Crusade in Twelfth-century Syria (2008) (2)
- The ternary analysis of work and working organisations (2000) (2)
- Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (2015) (2)
- A contribution to the lexicography of Egyptian arabic (1994) (2)
- Twelver Sh\=\i `\=\i \ jurisprudence and its struggle with Sunn\=\i \ consensus (1991) (2)
- Cide Hamete Benengeli, Narrator of Don Quijote (1997) (2)
- Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī’s Flight from Lebanon to Iraq (2019) (1)
- Arabic -inn compounds: the origins of Egyptian 'agrann, 'ikminn , 'iczinn (1994) (1)
- The Students' Representative in the Law Colleges of 14th-Century Damascus (2008) (1)
- Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies (2012) (1)
- Life Is like a Cucumber: Colloquial Egyptian Proverbs, Coarse Sayings and Popular Expressions (1995) (1)
- Cognate and Analogical Curses in Moroccan Arabic: A Comparative Study of Arabic Speech Genres (2014) (1)
- Noah’s Boat and Other Missed Opportunities (2022) (1)
- An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language, by Wheeler M. Thackston. 258 pages, appendices, vocabularies, indices. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1994. $20.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-936347-40-6 (2000) (1)
- 9. al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) (2013) (1)
- Review of Karim SAMJI, The Qur'an: A Form-Critical History (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018) (2019) (1)
- The Book of Strangers: Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia, translated by Patricia Crone and Shmuel Moreh. (Princeton Series on the Middle East) 182 pages, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000. $16.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-55876-215-9 (2000) (1)
- Cognate and Paronomastic Curse Retorts in the Qur'an: (2017) (1)
- Education and Learning in the Early Islamic WorldEdited by Claude Gilliot (2014) (1)
- Berkey, Jonathan, The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992), 218 pp., index, bibliography (1994) (1)
- Angelika Neuwirth, Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text (2016) (1)
- “WE’RE THE ONES WHO MADE THE ANTS STAND IN LINE”: (2019) (1)
- The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (2015) (1)
- Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im Zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abi Gumhür al-Ahsa’i (um 838/1434-35—nach 906/1501), by Sabine Schmidtke. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Vol. 34) 269 pages, appendices, bibliography, indices. Leiden, The Net (2001) (0)
- Disagreements of the Jurists (2020) (0)
- The Disputed Name and Origin of Abu al-Fath al-Karajiki (d. 449/1057) (2021) (0)
- DAVID MARSHALL, God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers: A Qur[ham]anic Study (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999). Pp. 204. $75.00 cloth. (2001) (0)
- Of Poetry and Patronage (2023) (0)
- Gleave, Robert: Scripturalist Islam (2015) (0)
- At the nexus of traditions in Safavid Iran : the career and thought of Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (2008) (0)
- Three polemic exchanges at the Safavid court (2009) (0)
- FARID ESACK, The Quran: A Short Introduction (Oxford: Oneworld, 2002). Pp. 192. $15.95 paper (2004) (0)
- Kitāb al-Waṣāyā (The Book of Legacies) and the Works of Mathematician Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ b. Aslam (2016) (0)
- Al-Kindī’s Two-Volume Compendium of Aristotelian Philosophy: Al-Falsafa al-Ūlā and al-Falsafa al-Dākhila (2021) (0)
- Understanding the Qur’an: Themes and Style, by Muhammad Abdel Haleem. 228 pages, index. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $39.50 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-009-5 (2000) (0)
- Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī's draft letter to his teacher: The culture of scholarly correspondence and the Islamic republic of letters in the sixteenth century (2020) (0)
- The Cybernetics Society (2012) (0)
- God Is Beautiful : The Aesthetic Experience of the Qur'an / Navid Kermani (2016) (0)
- Kecia Ali, Imam Shafiʿi: Scholar and Saint (Oxford: Oneworld Press, 2011). Pp. 160. $32.69 cloth. (2014) (0)
- Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī’s Kashf al-Rība ʿan Aḥkām al-Ghība and Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (2017) (0)
- Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi’s Manual of Islam, by Al-Nawawī Yaḥyā Ibn Sharaf. Translated by Keller Noah Ha Mim. 92 pages, appendices. Evanston, IL: Sunna Books, 1994. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–9638342-1–5 (1995) (0)
- Shahab Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, 336 pp., ISBN 9780674047426. (2023) (0)
- Style in the Qur'an (2021) (0)
- Developments within the Religious Sciences during the Rise and Decline of Empire (2018) (0)
- Tradition and Survival: A Biographical Survey of Early Shī'ite Literature (2008) (0)
- Rejoinder by Devin Stewart: Additional Notes on Converting Persia (2008) (0)
- The Charismatic Community: Shi`ite Identity in Early Islam By Maria Massi Dakake (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. 300 pages.) (2008) (0)
- Suliman Bashear, Studies in Early Islamic Tradition , Collected Studies in Arabic and Islam (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, 2004). Pp. 439. $47.00 cloth. (2009) (0)
- Where are we in the multiple use picture (1970) (0)
- Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism: By Scott B. Noegel and Brannon M. Wheeler (London: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. 520 pages.) (2004) (0)
- Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun by Michael Cooperson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000. 196 pages.) (2002) (0)
- SAJ' IN THE QUR'ĀN: PROSODY AND STUCTURE (2016) (0)
- The Disputed Etymology of Spanish "res" (1992) (0)
- AFTERWORD: THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF THE QURʾĀN—ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS (2016) (0)
- Approaches to the Investigation of Speech Genres in the Qur'an (2022) (0)
- Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence, Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, trans. and introd. Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Oxford: Oneworld, 2003, ISBN 1‐85168‐324‐0, pp. 200, index. (2005) (0)
- Speech Genres and Interpretation of the Qur’an (2021) (0)
- The Historical Roles of Jihād in Sunnī-Shīʿī Relations (2021) (0)
- Foreword with John Sexton (2017) (0)
- BRANNON M. WHEELER, Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis (London: Routledge/Curzon, 2002). Pp. 193. $75.00 cloth (2005) (0)
- Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shīᶜī Jurisprudence, Robert Gleave, Leiden: Brill, 2000. ISBN: 90-04115-951 (cloth). (2003) (0)
- Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies (2022) (0)
- The Brilliant Proof , by Mirza Abu’l-Fadl Gulpaygani. 80 pages, appendix. Los Angeles, CA: Kalimat Press, 1998. $14.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-890688-00-2 (2002) (0)
- Twelver Shiism: Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722 By Andrew J. Newman (2016) (0)
- Series Editors’ Preface (2018) (0)
- Series Editors’ Preface (2021) (0)
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE FIHRIST: IBN AL-NADIM AS HISTORIAN OF ISLAMIC LEGAL AND THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS (2007) (0)
- Karl-Heinz Ohlig , ed. Early Islam: A Historical-Critical Reconstruction on the Basis of Contemporary Sources. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2013. 647 pages. Cloth US$45.95 ISBN 978-1-61614-825-6. (2016) (0)
- Series Editors’ Preface (2019) (0)
- IMPMOT user's manual. [written in FORTRAN 4] (1974) (0)
- Converting Persia: Religion and power in the Safavid Empire, Rula Jurdi Abisaab, London: I. B. Tauris, 2004, ISBN 1-86064-970-X, xii + 219 pp., bibliography, index. (2006) (0)
- Richard Serrano, Qurʾān and the Lyric Imperative (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016). Pp. 238. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781498520706 (2017) (0)
- George Warner: The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Hadith Literature. 227 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. ISBN 978 1 8386 0560 5. (2022) (0)
- Behind Enemy Lines: An Account of a Secret Conversion to Shiism in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Aleppo (2022) (0)
- Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry, edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. 269 pages, notes on contributors, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-253-35493-5 (1996) (0)
- The Qu'ran Manuscripts in the al-Haram al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem: By Khader Salameh (Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 2001. 190 pages.) (2003) (0)
- ʿĪsā b. Hišām’s Shiism and Religious Polemic in the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī (d. 398/1008) (2021) (0)
- Gabriel Said Reynolds, Allah: God in the Qur’an (2022) (0)
- URI RUBIN, Between Bible and Qurءan: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, vol. 17 (Princeton, N.J.: Darwin Press, 1999). Pp. 293. $29.95 cloth. (2003) (0)
- IDENTIFYING “THE MUFTI OF ORAN”: A DETECTIVE STORY (2018) (0)
- Shica Islam: From Religion to Revolution, Heinz Halm, translated by Allison Brown, Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997, 176 pp. (1998) (0)
- Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1994 (1993) (0)
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE FIHRIST: IBN AL-NADIM AS HISTORIAN OF ISLAMIC LEGAL AND THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS (2007) (0)
- Guest Editors' Preface (2008) (0)
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