G. R. Hawting

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Gerald R. Hawting (born 1944) is a British historian and Islamicist.

Life

Hawting's teachers were Bernard Lewis and John Wansbrough. He received his Ph.D. in 1978. He is Emeritus Professor for the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.[1]

Research

In the line of John Wansbrough, Hawting concentrated on the question for the religious milieu in which Islam came into being. He analysed available sources about the religions on the Arabian Peninsula in the time before Islam in detail. According to Hawting, Islam did not develop within a world of polytheism as is reported by the traditional Islamic traditions which were written 150 to 200 years after Muhammad. Instead, Islam came into being on the basis of a conflict among various types of monotheists which considered each other to fail in living a perfect monotheism, and considering each other to practice idolatry.[citation needed]

Another theme of Hawting's research is the period of the Umayyad dynasty which was of great importance for the formation of Islam as a religion.[2] Also Hawting's works[3][4] are related with ibadism.[5] Hawting is a representative of the Revisionist School of Islamic Studies.[citation needed]

Works

As editor and co-author:

  • Approaches to the Quran (1993)
  • The Development of Islamic Ritual (2006)
  • Hawting, G.R.: (1978) The significance of the slogan Lā Ḥukma illā li'llāh and the references to the Ḥudūd in the Traditions about the Fitna and the murder of ʿUthmān. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London), vol. 41 (1978), 453–463
  • Hawting, G.R., J.A. Mojaddedi, A. Samely: (eds.) (2000) Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern texts and traditions in memory of Norman Calder (d. 1998). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 12

References

  1. ^ "Department of History: Professor G R Hawting". SOAS. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  2. ^ Norman Calder: Review of: The first dynasty of Islam, by G. R. Hawting, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 51 Issue 1 (February 1988), p. 131
  3. ^ Hawting, G.R. (1978). "The significance of the slogan Lā Ḥukma illā li'llāh and the references to the Ḥudūd in the Traditions about the Fitna and the murder of ʿUthmān". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 41 (3). London: 453–463. doi:10.1017/s0041977x00117550. S2CID 162680150.
  4. ^ Hawting, G.R. (2000). Mojaddedi, J.A.; Samely, A. (eds.). "Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern texts and traditions in memory of Norman Calder (d. 1998)". Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement. 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  5. ^ Custers, Martin H. (2016). Al-Ibāḍiyya: A Bibliography, Volume 3 (Second revised and enlarged ed.). Hildesheim-London-N.Y.: Olms Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 978-3-487-15354-4.


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