Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 5 Bibliography and Indices: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam (Arabic Edition)

Book info: Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 5 Bibliography and Indices: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam (Arabic Edition) (Hardcover, 308 pages) – Brill, 2020. Language: English.

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The volume consists of a Bibliography, followed by an Index of Names, an Index of Works and a General Index. Editorial Reviews About the Author Josef van Ess, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Languages, University of Tübingen, Germany, has published widely on the 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 conquests (13th-14th centuries); and Islamic mysticism. His most famous work and is Theologie und Gesellschaft in 6 volumes (de Gruyter 1991-97), the first four volumes of which are now being published in English by Brill.