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Professor Josef Van Ess FBA

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 conquest (13th-14th centuries); Islamic mysticism

Elected 2009

Fellow type: Corresponding Fellow
Year of birth: 1934
Year of death: 2021
Year elected: 2009
Sections: Theology and Religious Studies

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University of Tübingen Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages

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