Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 2, A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam (Handbook of Oriental ... and Middle East) (English and Arabic Edition)
Brand: Brill
Categories: Books, History, World



Dimensions: 6.25 x 2 x 9.5 inches
Language: English, Arabic
ISBN-10: 9004342028
Publisher: BRILL
Print length: 856 pages
Publication date: September 15, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-9004342026
Edition: Bilingual
subtitle: Bilingual Edition
author: van Josef Ess Author
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Josef van Ess, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages, University of Tübingen, Germany, has published widely on the 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 conquests (13th-14th centuries); and Islamic mysticism. His most famous work is Theologie und Gesellschaft in 6 volumes (de Gruyter 1991-97), the first four volumes of which are now being published in English by Brill. Gwendolin Goldbloom (1969) has produced English translations of several books and a number of articles in the field of Islamic Studies, most of them originally published in German.