Devin Stewart

Devin J. Stewart graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. magna cum laude in Near Eastern Studies in 1984, studied Arabic in Cairo in 1984–1985 in the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, and completed a Ph.D. with distinction at the University of Pennsylvania in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. Dr. Stewart’s research has focused on learned traditions among Twelver and Ismaili Shiites, the text of the Qur’an, Islamic legal education, biography and autobiography, the Moriscos of Spain, historical and sociolinguistics of Arabic dialects, and other topics. He has authored Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (1998), Disagreements of the Jurists (an edition and translation of al-Qadi al-Nu`man’s Ikhtilāf uṣūl al-madhāhib, 2015), co-authored Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001), co-edited seven volumes, published over 90 articles and book chapters, and published over 80 book reviews in various subfields of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Supervisors: George Makdisi, Roger Allen, and Adel Allouche