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 Chloë Starr FBA
Chloë Starr's research interests are Chinese Christian theology; Chinese Christian literature; and the intersection of modern Chinese theology and literature.
Professor John Barclay FBA
Early Judaism and the formation of early Christian thought and practice in the first century; the theology of Paul and the history of its reception
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
