Gerhard Böwering
Professor Gerhard Böwering is a German academic, currently Professor of Islamic Studies within the Department of Religious Studies, Yale University. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 following his "formative influence of al-Sulami's commentary on the Qur'an." Academic career. Böwering was previously an academic at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. God and his Attributes. Professor Böwering was an author of articles in the Encyclopaedia of the Quran including "Chronology and the Quran" and "God and his Attributes." Sahih Bukhari Hadith recorded that Abu Hurairah reported that  God has ninety-nine names ("99 Attributes of Allah"). Böwering refers to Chapter 17 of the Quran (al isrāʼ) (17:110) as the "locus classicus" to which explicit lists of the names used to be attached in Qur'anic exegesis ("tafsir"). According to Böwering, According to Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God (Allah) and jinn.