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 David Parker FBA
The textual criticism of the New Testament; the study of Greek & Latin manuscripts of the New Testament; editing the New Testament; digital tools for textual scholarship
Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA
Hebrew language & literature: history of Greek-speaking Judaism; Jewish-Christian relations; modern Jewish theology
Professor Mark Edwards FBA
Religious mentality of the late Roman world (250-550 A.D,), with special emphasis on theological tendencies in philosophy and the philosophical elements of Christian thought
