Graduate Student, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Abu Rayhon Beruniy Nomidagi Sharqshunoslik Instituti, Islamic Studies
Visiting Researcher
Thesis Title: Testifying Beyond Experience
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Everett K. Rowson
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About
I am primarily concerned with the epistemology of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and theology (kalam) elaborated by scholars from Transoxania (including Khwārazm) in the formative and early post-formative periods of these disciplines. I focus on a select group of Hanafi scholars hailing from Samarqand and Bukhārā who have, up until this point in contemporary scholarship, been known primarily as 'Māturīdīs.' I tend to think of them as the School of Samarqand during the time period my study. Social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy of language and the mind are playing major roles in the work I am undertaking.
I am fluent in Arabic, nearly so in Persian and Turkish, as well as some European languages, and I enjoy bringing primary sources and a familiarity with Middle Eastern languages into my work as an instructor. I am conducting most of my dissertation research abroad in Turkey and Uzbekistan.
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