Premises of Muslim Theology
Publisher
:
Albin Michel
Parution date
:
2002
EAN
:
9782226132857
Description
This work arose out of a series of four lectures given in 1998 by celebrated Islamic studies specialist Joseph van Ess at France’s renowned Institut du Monde Arabe. It is an excellent introduction to the major problems of Muslim theology as well as to its hermeneutics and epistemology. Additionally, it provides an invaluable key to numerous and topical questions on orthodoxy, faith, heresy, anathema, and anthropomorphism in Islam.
Author
Josef Ess : Josef van Ess is professor emeritus at the University of Tubingen where he has been Chairman of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages for over thirty years. He is the author of Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschia (Berlin, 1991-1997), an extensive six-volume study of Muslim theology. This monumental 4,000 page history is considered mandatory reading for scholars and students alike.
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