Frank Griffel

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

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Biography

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]

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References

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    • 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.
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    • 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
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