Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 1 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) (English and Arabic Edition)
Brand: Brill
Categories: Books, History, World



Dimensions: 6 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
Language: English, Arabic
ISBN-10: 9004323171
Publisher: BRILL
Print length: 568 pages
Publication date: November 17, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-9004323179
Edition: Bilingual
subtitle: Bilingual Edition
author: van Josef Ess
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. John O’Kane (1940) has been involved in various English translations of Arabic and Persian works to do with Sufism, and he has produced several English translations of works in the field of Islamic studies originally published in German.