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
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Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia FBA
Interactions between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages within the broad context of 12th and 13th-century theological and ecclesiastical developments; the place of Jews and Muslims in canon law
Professor Susanna Elm FBA
Social, economic, and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean; the transformation of the Roman empire into a predominantly Christian one; slavery, “Augustine the Economist,” imperial representation, war and resilience
Professor Mark Wynn FBA
Philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, including religious experience, the spiritual life, the material context of religious practice, and the relationship of religious narratives to conceptions of the human good
