Rainer Oßwald

Rainer Oßwald (born August 31, 1952 in Stuttgart ) is a German scholar of Islam .

Life

He studied Islamic Studies in Tübingen and at the School of Oriental and African Studies . After completing his doctorate at the University of Tübingen in 1983 and his habilitation in 1989 at the University of Kiel , he took over the chair for Islamic studies at the University of Bayreuth in 1997, with special emphasis on Africa .

His main research interests are Islamic law ( Fiqh ), slavery and the history of Islam in West Africa.

The trading cities of the Western Sahara. The development of the Arab-Moorish culture of Šinqīt, Wādān, Tīšīt and Walāta. (= Marburg Studies on Africa and Asia, Volume 39). Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-496-00853-9 .
The Sokoto Caliphate and its Ethnic Basis. An investigation into the uprising of Abd as-Salām. (= Beirut texts and studies , Volume 30) Steiner, Wiesbaden 1986
with Ulrich Rebstock and A. Wuld 'Abdalqādir: Catalog of Arabic manuscripts in Mauritania . (= Beirut texts and studies, volume 30). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-515-03639-3 .
Stratified society and Islamic law. The Zawāyā and warriors of the Western Sahara as reflected in legal opinions from the 16th to 19th centuries . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03285-5 .
Pactane sunt servanda? Voluntary, coercive and non-binding declarations in the Islamic contract law of the Maliki school . Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32043-4 .
Slave trade and slave life between Senegal and Atlas . Würzburg 2016, ISBN 3-95650-160-8 .
Islamic slave law . (= Communications on the social and cultural history of the Islamic world, Volume 40) Ergon, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 3-95650-238-8 .

↑ Oßwald, Rainer. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on June 6, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).