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Josef Van Ess
Die Forschung hat sich in letzter Zeit verstarkt der Schulweisheit zugewandt, die an den islamischen Bildungsstatten der Vormoderne, vor allem im iranischen Raum, gelehrt wurde. Das Wort Schulweisheit ist dabei…
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Josef van Ess
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains…
Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East (the former: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients) are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910…
Der dritte im Rahmen der Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung erscheinende Band behandelt den Dschihad vornehmlich als historisches Phanomen. Van Ess erklart die gegenwartige Entwicklung nicht nur vom Koran und der Prophetentradition her, sondern…
In this volume the history of Islamic sects is analysed as a literary genus in its own right. It consists of three sections: the first deals with structural constants in…
A history of religious thought in early Islam, studying links between theology and society in the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Hijra (8th and 9th centuries AD).
Kleine Schriften, written by the eminent German scholar of Islamic Studies Josef van Ess, is a unique three-volume collection of Van Ess’ widely scattered short writings, journal articles, encyclopaedia entries…
