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Der Wesir und seine Gelehrten: Zu Inhalt und Entstehungsgeschichte der theologischen Schriften des Rašīduddīn Fa·zlullāh (gest. 718/1318) ... des Morgenlandes ; 45, 4)

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68 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1981

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Josef van Ess

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Josef van Ess (born April 18, 1934 in Aachen) is a German Islamic scholar. Until his retirement in 1999, he taught at the University of Tübingen.


In 1959, van Ess graduated in Bonn with a thesis on Islamic mysticism. The Habilitation took place in 1964 in Frankfurt with a thesis on epistemological theory in the Islamic scholasticism. He has held guest professorships at the University of California Los Angeles (1967) and at the American University of Beirut (1967/1968). In 1968 he followed Rudi Paret as a professor at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Tübingen at the chair of "Islamic Studies and Semitic studies".

His published work includes : theology and society in the 2nd and 3rd century Hijrah. A history of religious thought in early Islam, in whose six volumes he reconstructed the thought buildings of former Islamic theologians, which were usually only handed down to later authors.

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