Traversing Time & Contagion | Justin K. Stearns
Justin K. Stearns talks about his work as a professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at NYUAD and his research on the history of contagion and diseases in Al-Andalus and North Africa. Justin shares a wealth of insights and comparisons between pandemics of the past and present.
Justin Stearns received his BA in English and History from Dartmouth College in 1998 and his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2007. He is a Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was a comparative intellectual history of Muslim and Christian understanding of contagion, especially in the context of the plague, entitled Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).
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