| FT-52973-04 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Robert Gordon Morrison | Religion and Science in Medieval Iran | 5/1/2004 - 8/31/2004 | $5,000.00 | Robert | Gordon | Morrison | | | | Whitman College | Walla Walla | WA | 99362-2067 | USA | 2004 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I am working on a book-length intellectual biography of the Persian scientist, Qur’an commentator, and mystic Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi (d. c. 1330 C. E.). Nisaburi is a fascinating subject for an intellectual biography because of his situation at the apex of important movements in both medieval scientific and Islamic thought. While Nisaburi was a respected religious scholar informed by Islamic theology, he likely wrote as one more committed to scientific investigation than religious scholars who lacked his lengthy and specialized training in science. |