Was ist der Islam?

Tilman Nagel is Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. He received his Dr. phil in 1967 and his Habilitation in 1971 from the University of Bonn. His main fields of research are Islamic theology and the social history of the muslim polity. His »Geschichte der islamischen Theologie« (Munich 1994) was translated into english in 1999 (»The History of Islamic Theology. From Muhammad to the Present«, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton).