The transcendent value of disgust: U of T’s Jeannie Miller’s research on 9th century Arabic scholar Author:  Peter Boisseau Picture:  Jeannie Miller is making a big impact with a new perspective on some very old prose. Miller, an assistant professor in the department of near & Middle Eastern civilizations, is working on a manuscript examining The Book of Animals by al-Jahiz, a ninth-century Arabic writer and polymath. Al-Jahiz  saw himself as a theologian and natural scientist, but is often miscast because of the risqué nature of some of his prose. “He sometimes gets placed as an entertaining literary figure, as opposed to a religious thinker, which I think is wrong,” says Miller, whose forthcoming book is entitled Performative Inquiry: How Rhetoric Produced an Abbasid Natural Science. “Th
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