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Revealed Sciences
  • The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco
  • Justin K. Stearns
  • Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021
  • 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.

  • 3 - Legalizing Science: The Authority of the Natural Sciences in Islamic Law

  • Justin K. Stearns
  • Book:
    Revealed Sciences
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021, pp 125-169

  • Summary

    While acknowledging the disproportionate role of Islamic jurisprudence in studies of Islam generally, as a body of texts it provides a valuable site to trace the ways in which the natural sciences were on the one hand instrumentalized and appropriated by jurists to address ritual and social issues, and on the other demonstrates how these sciences provided the basis for legal thinking. The case of the Great Smoking Debate of the seventeenth–eighteenth centuries is discussed at length to show in detail how medicine shaped legal categories.

  • Excursus: The Poverty of Intellectual History as a Series of Great Men

  • Justin K. Stearns
  • Book:
    Revealed Sciences
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021, pp 68-72

  • Summary

    For the Muslim world, telling the history of science as the achievements of a series of remarkable men has remained a viable approach for much longer than in Europe. This excursus retraces the traditional narrative of the natural and rational sciences in the Muslim world, and argues that a focus on the diffusion of knowledge throughout society provides a more productive understanding of the role of the natural sciences than a focus on individuals.

  • 1 - A Landscape of Learning in the Far West

  • Justin K. Stearns
  • Book:
    Revealed Sciences
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021, pp 34-72

  • Summary

    How was knowledge transmitted in Morocco, what was transmitted in the Early Modern period, and what was the history of Moroccan institutions of learning? This chapter provides the book's social, political, and intellectual context, paying careful attention to the importance of Sufi lodges and rural centers of learning.

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