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Professor's page.JOHN W. LIVINGSTON
Curriculum vitae
EducationPh.D., Princeton University, 1968, Islamic History
Specialization: Ottoman Empire and Modern Arab StatesPost Doctoral Research Fellow in History of Islamic Science at Harvard University, 1968-1970
Professional Experience:
William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ , History Department, 1987-Present
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., Dept. Intellectual Heritage, 1986-87
American University, Beirut, Lebanon, History, 1970-85
University of Florida, Orlando, Fl., History, 1985-86
Publications
Books:
Resurgence of Mamluk Power in Ottoman Egypt; to be resubmitted to Harvard University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles:
"Shaykh Muhammad Abduh and the Legitimation of Western Science," submitted to Journal of Middle East Studies, November 1993.
"Shaykhs, Jabarti, and Attar: A Study of Science and Islam in Nineteenth Century Egypt," submitted to Studia Islamica, October, 1993.
"Shaykh Rifa`a Rafi`i al-Tahtawi and the Islamic Response to Western Science," submitted to Der Islam.
"Science and the Occult in the Thinking of Ibn Qayyim al- Jawziyya," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 112, December 1992, pp. 598-610.
"Bonaparte and Shaykh Bakri," Studia Islamica, fasicule 80, Spring 1994.
"On the Difference Between the Soul and the Spirit: Translation and Study of Qusta ibn Luqa's Psycho-physiological Treatise and its Place in Islamic Thought." September, 1982, Scripta Mediterranean (vol. 11); Society for Mediterranean Studies, University of Toronto.
"Ali Bey al-Kabir and the Re-opening of the Red Sea Trade Route in the Eighteenth Century," Acts of the Twenty-Ninth Orientalists' Congress. Sorbornne, Paris, 1974.
"Evliyya Celebi on Surgical Operations in Vienna." Al-Abhath: Studies in Arabic and Islamic Culture. The American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1973.
"Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's al-Tadhkirah: A Category of Islamic Astronomical Literature," Centaurus. Copenhagen, 1972.
"The Makhula: An Islamic Conical Sundial," Centaurus International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science and Technology. Copenhangen, 1972.
"Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah: A Fourteenth Century Refutation of Occult Science in Islam." Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 91, January/March, 1971.
"Ali Bey al-Kabir of Egypt and the Jews." Middle Eastern Studies, London, 1972.
"The Rise of Shaykh al-Balad 'Ali Bey al-Kabir: A Study in Accuracy of the Chronicle of al-Jabarti," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London, vol. XXXlll, Part 2, 1972.
Book Reviews
The Arab World, Wm. Polk, Harvard University Press. Review published in The History Teacher, 1993, vol 26: 259-260.
Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World, C.A. Qadir, London, 1991. Review published in Journal of American Oriental Society, Spring 1993.
Lives at Risk: Public Health in 19th Century Egypt, La Verne Kuhnke, University of California, 1990; review to appear in JAOS.
Qusta ibn Luqa's Medical Regime, Gerrit Bos, Brill, 1992; review to appear in JAOS.
Conference Presentations
Lecture presented to faculty of Felician College, October 1992: "The U.S. and the Middle East up to Desert Storm."
Paper presented at Columbia University Arab Studies Seminar, March 1993: "Acculturation of Western Science in 19th Century Egypt."
Lecture presented to Glen Rock Chamber of Commerce, October, 1993: "Egypt Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Peace with Israel, Economic Decline and the Rise of Fundamentalism."
Public lecture to be presenteed at William Paterson College, Spring 1994: "On the Making of a Middle Eastern Handshake."
Other Research, Scholarly and/or Creative Activities
Senior Member of Middle Eastern Studies Association
College Service
Faculty Workshops
History Department Library Representative
History Department Activities Committee
History Honor Society Advisor
Community Service
Periodic lectures to area colleges and societies.
Teaching fields:
Middle East, History of Science, Islamic Civilizations, Arab-Israeli conflict