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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Revd Professor John Barton FBA
The Old Testament; theory and practice of biblical interpretation, biblical ethics, history of the Old and New Testament canons, and prophecy in ancient Israel.
Professor Garth Fowden FBA
Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context
