Kleine Schriften by Josef Van Ess (3 Vols)

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-31224-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch, Band 137, 2634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 4219 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Kleine Schriften, written by the eminent German scholar of Islamic Studies Josef van Ess, is a unique collection of Van Ess' widely scattered short writings, journal articles, encyclopaedia entries, (autobiographical) essays, reviews and lectures, in (mainly) German, English and French, some of which are published here for the first time. It includes a full bibliography of the author’s work, in addition to two indexes of classical authors and works, which aim to make accessible the remarkable riches that these Kleine Schriften have to offer. The three-volume collection, carefully selected by the author himself, offers over 150 texts organized primarily along Van Ess’ own biography and the history of the discipline. It is divided into twelve parts, beginning with Tübingen where his career began in 1968, and ending with Retrospects and Postscripts for the future, with the thematic complexes Islam and its first options and Mu'tazila as centre pieces. All parts are introduced by brief accounts of the historical context in which each of the assembled texts was written and which course subsequent scholarship may have taken.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ess, Josef Van

Biesterfeldt, Hinrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Josef van Ess, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages, University of Tübingen, Germany, has published widely on the Intellectual History of the Islamic World; Islamic theology and philosophy, especially with respect to the formative period (8th-10th centuries), the age of the Mongol conquests (13th-14th centuries) and Islamic mysticism. His most famous work is his Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra published in 6 volumes (de Gruyter 1991-97), the English edition of which is now being published by Brill in 4 volumes.

Hinrich Biesterfeldt Retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, has published widely on the transmission of Greek philosophy and medicine to Arabic culture. His other fields of research include the early history of classifications of knowledge in Islam and classical Arabic prose literature.