Sheikh Zayed Book Award
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Edition 18 (2024) Winner
Frank Griffel
フランク・グリフェル
Furanku Guriferu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- German
- Languages
- English, German, Arabic
- Residence History
- Berlin (studies) → Damascus (study) → New Haven (Yale University) → Oxford (Oxford University)
Career
- Occupations
- Scholar of Islamic studies, Religious studies scholar, University professor
- Active Years
- 1999-
- Affiliations
- Yale University (emeritus professor; former faculty), Oxford University, Faculty of Theology and Religion (Professor, Study of Abrahamic Religions), Lady Margaret Hall (Fellow), Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft / Orient Institute (research fellow in Beirut), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (visiting/member), LMU Munich (visiting professor), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (visiting professor)
- Influenced By
- Al-Ghazālī, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Michael E. Marmura
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free University of Berlin | Faculty of Philosophy (interdisciplinary studies) | Arabic literature and Islamic studies | PhD | — | Germany |
| University of Göttingen (study) | — | Philosophy and Arabic literature | — | — | Germany |
Free University of Berlin
Faculty of Philosophy (interdisciplinary studies)
/ Arabic literature and Islamic studies
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
1999
Country:
Germany
PhD based on dissertation that became first monograph
University of Göttingen (study)
Philosophy and Arabic literature
Country:
Germany
Studied there (details not specified)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Arab Culture in Other Languages) | The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam | 他言語でのアラブ文化 | Sheikh Zayed Book Award | 受賞 |
| 2011 | World Prize for the Book of the Year (Iran) | Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology | — | Iran's Book of the Year Awards | 受賞 |
| 2007 | Carnegie Scholar | — | — | Carnegie Corporation of New York | 受賞 |
| 2015 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award | — | — | Humboldt Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2021 | Annual award of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Islamische Theologie (WGIT) | — | — | Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Islamische Theologie | 受賞 |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Arab Culture in Other Languages)
2024
Work:
The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
Category:
他言語でのアラブ文化
Organization:
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Result:
受賞
World Prize for the Book of the Year (Iran)
2011
Work:
Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
Organization:
Iran's Book of the Year Awards
Result:
受賞
Carnegie Scholar
2007
Organization:
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Result:
受賞
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
2015
Organization:
Humboldt Foundation
Result:
受賞
Annual award of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Islamische Theologie (WGIT)
2021
Organization:
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Islamische Theologie
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam
2000 Scholarly monographA dissertation-based study of the judgment of apostasy (irtidād) in Islamic law up to al-Ghazālī and the reactions of later philosophers.
apostasy (irtidād)Islamic lawAl-Ghazālī
Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
2009 Scholarly study / intellectual historyA detailed account of al-Ghazālī's cosmology and theology arguing that he articulates both occasionalism and a form of secondary causation, presenting a synthesis in the scholarly debate.
history of Islamic philosophycosmologyoccasionalism vs. secondary causation
Translations
- none / not confirmed
The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
2021 Scholarly monograph / intellectual historyA detailed study of the conditions and content of philosophical activity in the Islamic east during the 12th century, arguing that philosophy in Islam developed along different patterns than in the West.
post-classical periodIslamic intellectual historysyncretism and interdisciplinarity
Bibliography
- Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
- Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Academic, analytical styleIntellectual-historical and source-critical approach
- Recurring Motifs
- relation between reason and revelationinterpretation of medieval Islamic philosophycomparative readings of Al-Ghazālī and Ibn Sīnā
Legacy
Frank Griffel is an internationally recognized scholar of al-Ghazālī and post-classical Islamic philosophy. After a long career at Yale University he was appointed to Oxford University; he has received several international awards and significantly contributed to the study of Islamic intellectual history.
Academic Societies
- Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Islamische Theologie (awarded)
Quotes
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The historian's task is to develop analytical criteria of what we mean by [words such as "salafi"].
Source: Die Welt des Islams (response to Henri Lauzière), 2016 (2016)
Trivia
- Appointed Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at Oxford in 2024.
- Served as Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Religious Studies at Yale and is now emeritus.
- Studied in Damascus, Berlin and Göttingen.
- Named Carnegie Scholar in 2007 and received a Humboldt Bessel Research Award in 2015.