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Revealed Sciences Justin K. Stearns

Revealed Sciences By Justin K. Stearns

Revealed Sciences by Justin K. Stearns


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Provides a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in the scholarly and educational landscape of Early Modern Morocco, this study challenges previous negative depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world to demonstrate the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society in seventeenth-century Morocco.

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Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco 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.

Revealed Sciences Reviews

'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

About Justin K. Stearns

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).

Table of Contents

Preface: paths not taken; Introduction: Narratives of science, old and new; 1. A landscape of learning in the far west; Excursus: the poverty of intellectual history as a series of great men; 2. Constructing science in Morocco between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; Excursus: the horizons of causality: how to think about causes, nature, and ghosts of scientific methods; 3. Legalizing science: the authority of the natural sciences in Islamic law; Excursus: Kuhn and the history of science in Islamicate societies; 4. Writing the mathematical and natural sciences; Excursus: Sufism and the spiritual life: balancing the exoteric and esoteric sciences; Conclusion.

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NLS9781107638709
9781107638709
1107638704
Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco by Justin K. Stearns
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2023-03-09
330
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