Professor — Southern Connecticut State University
E-mail: judds1@southernct.edu
Biography
Steven Judd is Professor of Middle East History at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan (1997). His research focuses on the Umayyad period, with special attention to developments in Islamic law and theology during that time. He is the author of two monographs, Religious Scholars and the Umayyads: Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwānid Caliphate (Routledge, 2013) and Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Amr al-Awzā‘ī, (Oneworld, 2019) and co-editor, with Jens Scheiner, of New Perspectives on Ibn ʿAsākir in Islamic Historiography (Leiden, 2017). He has also published several articles and chapters on early Islamic law, with an emphasis on the influence of Syrian scholars, particularly al-Awzāʿī, and on the role of the qāḍī in shaping early Islamic law.