Robert G. Morrison

Affiliation: Religion

George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Director of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program

Robert Morrison came to 黑料吃瓜网爆网站 College in August 2008. His courses lie in the academic study of both Islam and Judaism, but address, in addition, comparative topics. His research has focused on the role of science in Islamic and Jewish texts, as well as in the history of Islamic science. Robert has contributed the chapters on Islamic astronomy to the New Cambridge History of Islam and the Cambridge History of Science. He was previously a faculty member at Whitman College (in Walla Walla, WA) from 2001-8.

Books

. Stanford University Press, 2025. (Forthcoming)

The Intellectual Career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2007); 301 + viii pp. Awarded the 2009 World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Islamic studies.

Astronomy in al-Andalus: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias’ The Light of the World. University of California Press, 2016.

Monograph-length Journal Article

“Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Hypotheses for Celestial Motions,” in Journal for the History of Arabic Science XIII (2005): 21-140

Co-edited Book

Peer Reviewed Articles

"Conceptions of the Soul in Abraham Ibn Ezra's Poetry"
Edebiyat XI (2000): 239-59

"The Portrayal of Nature in a Medieval Qur’an Commentary"
Studia Islamica XCIV (2002): 115-38

"The Response of Ottoman Religious Scholars to European Science"
Archivum Ottomanicum XXI (2003): 187-95

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Arabica LII (2005): 182-203

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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy XV (2005): 75-108

“Science and Theodicy in Q 2:6/7,” in Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.): Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008)

“Discussions of Astrology in Early Tafsīr,” Journal of Qur’ānic Studies XI (2009): 49-71

“Islamic Astronomy and Astrology,” in Robert Irwin (ed.) New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2010), vol. 4: pp. 589-613

“Islamic Astronomy and Cosmology,” in David Lindberg and Michael Shank (eds.): Cambridge History of Science, vol. 5 (Cambridge University Press, 2011): 109-138

“An Astronomical Treatise by Mūsā Jālīnūs alias Moses Galeano,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism X/2 (2011): 315-53

“Natural Theology and the Qur’ān,” Journal of Qur’ānic Studies XV (2013): pp. 1-22

“What Was the Purpose of Astronomy in Ījī’s Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī ‘ilm al-kalām?” in Judith Pfeiffer (ed.): Tabriz after the Mongol Conquest (Brill, 2013): pp. 201-29

“A Scholarly Intermediary Between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,” Isis (3/2014): 32-57

“Religion and Science in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Isis XVII (2016): 579-82

“Mūsā Cālīnūs’ Treatise on the Natures of Medicines and Their Use,” in Nazariyat III,1 (2017): 77-136

“Cosmology and Cosmic Order in Islamic Astronomy,” in Early Science and Medicine (2019): 340-66

“Tables for Computing Lunar Crescent Visibility in Adderet Eliyahu,” SCIAMVS XX (2019): 157-201

“Cosmology, Cosmography, and Kalām from Samarqand to Istanbul,” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (2020): 1-30 (published online in advance), and 9 (2021): 308–337

“Cosmic Order in the Microcosm: Ethical Guidance in Post-Classical Astronomy Texts,” Oriens 50 (2022): 1-30

“Selective Appropriation: Jewish Scholars and Lunar Crescent Visibility Prediciton in the Ottoman Empire,” Suhayl 19 (2022): 151-74