Emeritus Professor
Member
- Name:
- Professor G R Hawting
- Email address:
- gh@soas.ac.uk
Biography
The early development of Islam in the Middle East; Arabic accounts of Muhammad’s life; pre-modern Islamic and Middle Eastern History
Previous PhD Students
Zohar Shani Allouche, '"Between The Pure Milk And The Froth": Images Of The Devil In The Muslim Tradition (Hadith)', 2006
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda, 'On The Margins Of Sira: Mughuitai (689-762 / 1290-1361) And His Place In The Development Of Sira Litrature.', 2007
Daniel Andrzej Vazquez-Paluch, 'The Establishment Of The Maliki School In Muslim Spain', 2008
Alena Kulinich, 'Representing "a blameworthy tafsir": Mu 'tazilite exegetical tradition in al-Jami' fi tafsir al-Qur'an of 'Ali ibn 'lsa al-Rummani (d.384/994)', 2012
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Languages
Hawting, Gerald (2000) The first dynasty of Islam: the Umayyad caliphate AD 661-750. London: Routledge.
Hawting, Gerald (1999) The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hawting, Gerald (1997) 'The Literary Context of Muslim Tradition about pre-Islamic Arab Idolatry'. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, (21), pp 21-41.
Hawting, Gerald (1997) 'Shirk and Idolatry in Monotheist Polemic'. Israel Oriental Studies: Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam, (17), pp 107-26.
Hawting, Gerald, (ed.), (2004) Muslims, Mongols, and Crusaders. London: Routledge.
Hawting, Gerald and Mojaddedi, J.A. and Samely, A., (eds.), (2000) Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern texts and traditions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Journal of Semitic studies supplement, 12).
Hawting, Gerald (2006) 'Eavesdropping on the Heavenly Assembly and the Protection of the Revelation from Demonic Corruption'. In: Wild, Stefan, (ed.), Self-Referentiality in the Qur'an.. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 25-37.
Hawting, Gerald (2006) 'The Tawwabun, Atonement and 'Ashura''. In: Hawting, Gerald, (ed.), The Development of Islamic Ritual. Farnham: Ashgate, pp 173-188.
Hawting, Gerald (2005) 'The Rise of Islam'. In: Choueiri, Y.M., (ed.), A Companion to the History of the Middle East.. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp 9-27.
Hawting, Gerald (2004) 'articles: Parties and factipons, Pilgrimage, Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Qur'an'. In: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an vol. 4. Leiden: Brill, pp 24a-27b, 91b.
Hawting, Gerald (2003) ''Ka'ba' and 'Oaths''. In: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an vol. 3. Leiden: Brill, pp 75a-80a, 561a.
Hawting, Gerald (2003) 'Qur'anic Exegesis and History'. In: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen and Walfish, B.D. and Goering, J.W., (eds.), With Reverence for the Word. Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 408-421.
Hawting, Gerald (2002) '"Idolatry and Idolaters" and "Idols and Images"'. In: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, vol. 2. Leiden: Bril, pp 475-484.
Hawting, Gerald (2001) 'Atonement [and] Calf of Gold'. In: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, vol. 1, A-D. Leiden: Brill, pp 186b-188a, 273b.
Hawting, Gerald (2000) 'Tahannuth [and] al-Thaqafi [and] Umayyads'. In: Bearman, Peri, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition. Leiden: Brill, pp 98b-99a, 431b.
Hawting, Gerald (2000) 'Discussion in Islamic law of being prevented from completing a pilgrimage (ihsar)'. In: Hawting, Gerald and Mojaddedi, J.A. and Samely, A., (eds.), Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern texts and traditions in memory of Norman Calder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 121-137.
Hawting, Gerald (1996) 'The History of al-Tabari Vol 17 - The First Civil War', 17.
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