Devin Stewart is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University. His publications include
Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelve Shiite
Responses to the Sunni Legal System,
Law and Education in Islam, “
Saj' in the Qur'an: Prosody and Structure,”
Journal of Arabic Literature 21 (1990): 101-39, “Muhammad B. Jarir al-Tabari's
al-Bayan 'an usul al-ahkam and the Genre of
Usul al-Fiqh
in Ninth-Century Baghdad,” in
Abbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, July 2002.