Gerhard Böwering
Gerhard Böwering SJ (born 1939 in Mönchengladbach ) is an American scholar of Islam and a university professor of German origin. He is a Jesuit, a priest since 1970 and Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University , New Haven (Connecticut) since 1984 . He was previously an Assistant / Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia (1975–1984). One of his areas of interest is Sufism . He is one of the editors of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought ( Princeton University Press, 2013). He is the author of numerous articles, including the Encyclopaedia of Islam , the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica .
Life
Böwering's family moved to Würzburg in the 1940s . There he graduated from high school in 1959 and entered the Jesuit order. He was sent to Pakistan as a missionary and ordained a priest there in 1970. This was followed by a degree in Islam at McGill University in Montreal . After receiving his doctorate and working at the University of Pennsylvania, he was offered a position at Yale in 1984. He has traveled to more than 70 countries.
Publications (selection)
- The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam . Berlin-New York, 1980.
- The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism . Brill, Leiden, 2013.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (editors: Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone and Mahan Mirza). Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-691-13484-0 .
- The Minor Qur'an Commentary of al-Sulami , Beirut, 1995, 2nd ed., 1997.
- Sufi Inquiries and Interpretations , Beirut, 2010.
- Sufi Treatises , Beirut, 2009.
See also
- Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (English)
References and footnotes
- ^ Wanderlust leads Jesuit Bowering to Islamic world
- ↑ DNB
- ↑ mainpost.de , October 18, 2018
- ↑ الديانة المسيحية - Dar el Machreq - دار المشرق . Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böwering, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scholar of Islam and university professor of German origin from the Jesuit order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |