Works by Stewart, Devin J., 1962‒ as author 40
Consensus, authority, and the interpretive community in the thought of Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī
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Dissimulation in Sunni Islam and Morisco taqiyya
This study provides an outline of the religious doctrine of taqiyya or dissimulation in Sunni Islam, drawing on Qurʾānic commentaries, ḥadith compilations, legal manuals, and ethical treatises. Morisc
This study provides an outline of the religious doctrine of taqiyya or dissimulation in Sunni Islam, drawing on Qurʾānic commentaries, ḥadith compilations, legal manuals, and ethical treatises. Moriscos and the North African jurists who advised them had access to discussions of taqiyya and the closely connected legal dispensation of coercion (ikrāh) through these sources, many of which were wellknown in al-Andalus before the Reconquista, and some of which continued to be popular afterwards.
Attention to this material helps one to interpret the 1504 fatwā of Ibn Abī Jumʿa al-Wahrānī to the Moriscos and in particular his discussion of blasphemy under coercion.
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The doctorate of Islamic law in Mamluk Egypt and Syria
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Editing the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm
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Emending the chapter on law in Ibn al-Nadīm's Fihrist
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Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī's draft letter to his teacher
This study focuses on a draft letter by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī (d. 984/1576) for his teacher Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 965/1558); both were prominent Twelver Shiite jurists from the region This study focuses on a draft letter by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī (d. 984/1576) for his teacher Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 965/1558); both were prominent Twelver Shiite jurists from the region of Jabal ʿĀmil in what is now Lebanon. Yūsuf Ṭabājah, who first published the text, argued that Ḥusayn wrote the letter while he was in Iraq c. 957/1550 and that it describes Zayn al-Dīn's legal work al-Rawḍah al-bahiyyah. It is argued here that the book in question is more likely Zayn al-Dīn's work Tamhīd al-qawāʿid, on legal and grammatical maxims, and that the letter dates to c. 958/1551. The text provides insight into the relationship between Ḥusayn and Zayn al-Dīn and the culture of scholarly correspondence.
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The identity of "the Muftī of Oran", Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī Jumʿah al-Maghrāwī al-Wahrānī (d. 917/1511)
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Interpreting the self : autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition
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ʿĪsā b. Hišām’s Shiism and religious polemic in the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī (d. 398/1008)
This study reads the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī (d. 398/1008) against the background of the sectarian milieu of the fourth/tenth century. It begins with a thorough review of the preceding s This study reads the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamaḏānī (d. 398/1008) against the background of the sectarian milieu of the fourth/tenth century. It begins with a thorough review of the preceding scholarship on al-Hamaḏānī’s sectarian allegiances, and it confirms the contention that Hamaḏānī was a Sunni by conviction. It then proposes that the names and attributes of the narrator of al-Hamaḏānī’s Maqāmāt, ʿ Īsā b. Hišām, reflect an attempt by al-Hamaḏānī to satirize Shii values and practices. It then considers references to Shiism in six of al-Hamaḏānī’s maqāmāt: the Ḥulwāniyya, Māristāniyya, Iṣfahāniyya, Maḍiriyya, Aḏarbayjāniyya, and Kūfiyya, along with several other references to Shiism in the collection. The study further proposes a possible connection between the portrayal of ʿĪsā b. Hišām and the famed Twelver scholar Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (d. 381/991).
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