Baber Johansen
Baber Johansen (* 1936 in Berlin ) is an Islamic scholar and sociologist and from 1995 to 2004 Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris , where he primarily taught legal norms.
Life
He studied Islamic studies, sociology, economics and law at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) and Arabic and history at the University of Cairo. He received his doctorate in 1965 and habilitated at the Free University of Berlin in 1972. During the student riots he was a leading representative of the left-wing research assistants . Until 1995 he was professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies alongside Fritz Steppat . 1992–1994 and 2002–2003 he was also visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton . Since 2005 he has been professor for Islamic Religious Studies at the Divinity School Harvard . His most important writings are now in the anthology Contingency in a Sacred Law. Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh .
In addition to numerous publications, primarily on the past and present of Islamic law, Johansen is co-editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society (Brill, 1994).
Works
- Baber Johansen: Contingency in a Sacred Law. Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh . Suffer. Brill 1999. ISBN 9004106030
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| SURNAME | Johansen, Baber |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |