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Justin K. Stearns

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Justin K. Stearns
Born	(1974-10-13) October 13, 1974 (age 49)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Dartmouth College, Princeton University
Spouse	Nathalie Peutz
Scientific career
Fields	History, History of Science, Religion
Institutions	Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
Thesis	(2007)

Justin K. Stearns

Born

(1974-10-13) October 13, 1974 (age 49)

Citizenship

United States

Alma mater

Dartmouth College, Princeton University

Spouse

Nathalie Peutz

Scientific career

Fields

History, History of Science, Religion

Institutions

Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi

Thesis

(2007)

Justin K. Stearns (born October 13, 1974) is associate professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi.^[1] The son of Stephen C. Stearns and Beverly P. Stearns and the brother of Jason Stearns, he is married to Nathalie Peutz, a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi.^[2]

Selected publications

Books

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean. Baltimore: JHU Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8018-9873-0.

al-Yusi, al-Hasan (2019). The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One. Edited and translated by Justin Stearns. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-6457-2.

Articles

Stearns, Justin K. (2014), "All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed': The Rational Sciences in the Maghrib in the age of al-Yusi (d. 1102/1691)", Islamic Law and Society, 21: 49–80, doi:10.1163/15685195-02112p02.

Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the pre-modern Muslim world: Historiography, Religion, and the Importance of the Early Modern Period", History Compass, 9 (12): 923–951, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00810.x.

Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "The Frontier of Gottfried Liedl: Situating the origins of European modernity in Naṣrid Granada", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 3 (2): 247–262, doi:10.1080/17546559.2011.610184, S2CID 159932236.

Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia", Medieval Encounters, 15: 355–374, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004179196.i-276.51, ISBN 9789004179196.

Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death", History Compass, 7 (5): 1–13, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00634.x.

Encyclopedia Articles

Entries for al-Hasan al-Yusi and Ibn al-Banna in Dictionary of African Biography (2011)

Entry on “Contagion” for the Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition (2010), 180–82.

References

^ Mangan, Katherine (March 18, 2015), "UAE incident raises questions", The Chronicle of Higher Education, archived from the original on 2015-03-20.
^ Genova, Nicholas De; Peutz, Nathalie (2010). The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Duke University Press. pp. ix. ISBN 978-0-8223-9134-0.
^ University, Princeton. "Display Person - Department of Near Eastern Studies". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-24.