Frank Griffel

Frank Griffel is a German scholar of Islamic studies at the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.

Biography[edit]

Griffel earned his PhD in 1999 from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, after studying philosophy, Arabic literature, and Islamic studies at universities in Göttingen, Berlin, Damascus, and London. He was a research fellow at the Orient Institute of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) in Beirut, Lebanon. He joined Yale University in 2000, where he teaches Islamic intellectual history, ancient and modern theology and philosophy, and how Islamic intellectuals respond to Western modernity.[1]

Griffel has published studies on the Islamic philosophical theology of al-Ghazali (d. 1111),[2] as well as on the history of Islamic theology and Islamic developments in theology, science, and literature. In 2024, he was distinguished by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for his study The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam.[3]

Selected works[edit]

  • Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
  • The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam, 2021

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Frank Griffel". Yale University - Religious Studies. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  2. ^ Reviews of Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology:
    • Whittingham, Martin (2010). "Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology". American Journal of Islam and Society. 27 (4). International Institute of Islamic Thought: 111–114. doi:10.35632/ajis.v27i4.1295. ISSN 2690-3741.
    • Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, No. 1 (January–March 2010), pp. 118-121
    • Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Summer 2010), pp. 82-84
    • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 163, No. 1 (2013), pp. 244-246
    • Philosophy East and West, Vol. 61, No. 3 (JULY 2011), pp. 564-567
    • Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 71, No. 2 (October 2012), pp. 398-400
    • Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2011), pp. 115-128
    • Otto, Sean (2016-01-27). "Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology". The Heythrop Journal. 57 (2). Wiley: 415–416. doi:10.1111/heyj.46_12316. ISSN 0018-1196.
    • Janssens, Jules (2011). "Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Theology". The Muslim World. 101 (1). Wiley: 115–119. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.2010.01346.x. ISSN 0027-4909.
    • Kılıç, Muhammet Fatih. SCIRES-IT , Jul2011, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p. 133-137
    • Ragep, F. Jamil. In: Isis. Dec 2010, Vol. 101 Issue 4, p867
  3. ^ "Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Winners of its 18th Edition". sheikh zayed book award. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
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