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Devin J. StewartSamuel Candler Dobbs ProfessorDepartmental Chair
Biography
Education/Degrees
- Ph.D., Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Teaching/Research Areas
- Shiite Islam
- Qur’anic Studies
- Biography and Autobiography
- Moriscos
- Safavid Iran
- Pre-modern Arabic Literature
- Arabic Dialects
Books Published
- Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
- Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Dwight F. Reynolds. University of California Press, 2001. Co-authored text (pp. 1-103) and translated the autobiography of Yusuf al-Bahrani (d. 1772 C.E.) (pp. 216-23).
- Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System. Salt Lake City: Utah University Press, 1998.
Edited Works
- Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam. Ed. Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco’s Literary Tradition. Ed. Kirstin Ruth Bratt, Youness M. Elbousty, and Devin J. Stewart. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2014.
- Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Associate Editors Patricia Crone, Wadad al-Qadi, Muhammad Qasim Zaman and Devin Stewart, Chief Editor Gerhard Böwering. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
- At the Nexus of Traditions in Safavid Iran: The Career and Thought of Shaykh Baha' al-Din Al-Amili. Preface, Translations, and Notes by Devin J. Stewart. Edited by Muhammad Kazim Rahmati. Qum, Iran: Academy of Islamic Sciences and Culture, 2009.
- Essays in Arabic Literary Biography, II: 1350-1850. Ed. Joseph E. Lowry and Devin J. Stewart. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.
- Arabic Literature before al-Muwaylihi. Ed. Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa. Special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures, 11.2 (2008).
- Law and Education in Medieval Islam. Studies in Memory of Professor George Makdisi. Ed. Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa. E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004.
