Professor Josef Van Ess FBA
History of the Islamic World; Islamic theology and philosophy, especially with respect to the formative period (8th-10th centuries) and the age of the Mongol conquest (13th-14th centuries); Islamic mysticism
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Year of birth
- 1934
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Last post
University of Tübingen Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Hugh McLeod FBA
Social history of Christianity in western Europe and the USA in the 19th and 20th century, including urban and working class history, secularisation and international comparison
Professor Samuel Lieu FBA
History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road
Professor Kathryn Tanner FBA
Christian theology, informed by the history of Christian thought and approached through an interdisciplinary lens, with an emphasis on the connections between Christian thought and economic, political, and social issues
