Frank Griffel
Frank Griffel (* 1965 ) is a German scholar of Islam.
He studied philosophy, Arabic literature and Islamic studies in Göttingen , Damascus , Berlin and London. In 1999 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. After that he worked in Beirut .
Since 2000 he has been teaching at Yale University , where he has been a full professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies since 2008.
Works
Monographs
- Apostasy and Tolerance in Islam. The development of al-Ġazālīs judgment against the philosophy and the reactions of the philosophers , Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2000.
- Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Theology , Oxford 2009.
- Think Islam. Attempt to understand a religion , Stuttgart 2018.
Translations
- al-Ġazālī : About orthodoxy and religious tolerance. A translation of The Criterion of Distinction Between Islam and Godlessness , 1998.
- Averroes : Relevant Treatise , 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Frank Griffel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on Yale University website , last accessed May 5, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Griffel, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |