Alexander Dmitrievich Knysh

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Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Knysch ( Russian Александр Дмитриевич Кныш ; scientific transliteration Aleksandr Dmitrievič Knyš ; born 1957 in Sassowo , Ryazan Oblast , USSR ), also in the spelling of Knyž and Knysh , is a Russian-American professor of Islamic studies and various academic contributions Sufism delivered.

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Knysch was born in Sassowo in Ryazan Oblast in 1957 . In 1979 he graduated in Arabic Philology from the Institute of Oriental Studies at Leningrad State University . In 1986 he graduated in Islamwissenschaft about "Osnovnye istočniki dlja izučenija mirovozzrenija Ibn'Arabi : Fusus al-chikam i al-Futuchat al-makkija" (Основные источники для изучения мировоззрения Ибн 'Араби: Фусус ал-хикам и ал-Футухaт ал-маккийа / The main sources for studying the worldview of Ibn Arabi: Fusus al-hikam and al-Futuhat al-makkiya ) in AB Chalidow . His areas of interest include Islamic history, Sufism , the history of Islamic theological thought, and Islam in Yemen and the North Caucasus . He has been working in the USA since 1991. He is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan . Since 2005 he has been the section editor responsible for Sufism at the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (publisher: Brill).

Publications (selection)

  • Islam in a historical perspective. Second edition. :New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
  • Islamic mysticism. Leiden: Brill, 2000 ( online )
  • Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The making of a polemical image in medieval Islam , SUNY Press, 1999 (SUNY Series in Islam), table of contents
  • (Transl.): Al-Qushayri ’s Epistle on Sufism: Al-risala Al-qushayriyya Fi 'ilm Al-tasawwuf. ( Great Books of Islamic Civilization ). 2007

Web links

  • Biography (Homepage of the Institute for Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Institut Vostočnych Rukopisej Rossijskoj Akademii Nauk) - Russian
  • Biography (Homepage of the University of Michigan)
  • Knysch, AD - Russian

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ DNB
personal data
SURNAME Knysch, Alexander Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Александр Дмитриевич Кныш (Russian); Aleksandr Dmitrievič Knyš; Alexander D. Knysh; Alexander Knysh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American Islamic scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sassovo , Ryazan Oblast