Steven Judd
Professor of MIddle East history
Department Chair
Office: EN C 205
Phone: 203-392-5605
email: judds1@southernct.edu
Education
PhD, University of Michigan, 1997
MA, University of Michigan, 1993
BA, St. Olaf College, 1989
Works in progress
Book, Orthodox Umayyads: Piety-Minded Supporters of the Umayyad Caliphate
Book, 'Abd al-Rahmän b. 'Amr al-Awzä'ï and the Formation of Islamic Thought
selected Publications
Article, "Medieval explanation for the fall of the Umayyads" in Umayyad Heritage, ed. A. Borrut and P. Cobb (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
Article, "Reevaluating al-Walïd b. Yazïd," Journal of the American Oriental Society 128 (2008)
Article, "Al-Awzä'ï and Sufyän al-Thawrï: The Umayyad Madhhab?" The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress, ed. P. Bearman, F. Vogel, R. Peters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Article, "Character Development in al-Tabarï's and al-Baladhurï's Narratives of Late Umayyad History," Insights into Arabic Literature and Islam: Ideas, Concepts and Methods of Portrayal, ed. Sebastian Gunther (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
Article, "Ibn 'Asäkir's Sources for the late Umayyad Period," Ibn 'Asäkir in Islamic History, ed. James Lindsay (Princeton: Darwin Press, 2002).
Article, "Competitive Hagiography in Biographies of Al-Awzä'ï and Sufyän al-Thawrï" Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122 (2002).
Article, "Ghaylän al-Dimashqï: The Isolation of a Heretic in Islamic Historiography," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31 (May 1999).
teaching and Research interests
Early Islamic History, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology, Arabic Historiography, Muslim Fundamentalism, Modern Middle Eastern History
Courses
HIS 104: Islamic Civilization
HIS 240: Middle East: Muhammad to the Mongols
HIS 241: Modern Middle East
HIS 280: Modern Iraq
HIS 340: The Crusades
HIS 341: Islamic Fundamentalism
HIS 571: The Medieval Middle East
HIS 572: The Modern Middle East
