Robert G. Morrison
Associate Professor of Religion
Fall 2009
- The Islamic Revolution of Iran (REL 025)
- Islam (REL 208)
| Phone | (207) 798-4237 |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Department | Religion |
| Work Location | 34 Ashby House |
| rgmorris@bowdoin.edu |
Education
Columbia University: M.Phil., Ph.D.
Harvard University: A.M. and A.B.
Robert Morrison came to Bowdoin 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.
Selected Publications
Book
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.
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
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
"The Role of Portrayals of Nature in Medieval Qur'an Commentaries”
Arabica LII (2005): 182-203
“The Solar Theory of Joseph Ibn Nahmias”
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)
Links:
Academic Spotlight: Bowdoin Islamicist Wins Top Iranian Book Prize
Academic Spotlight: New Faculty Scholar Deepens Study of Islam, Judaism