Jan Thiele
Department of Jewish and Islamic Studies
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich
Spain
Biography
I am Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid. My research deals with Muslim intellectual history and its textual heritage. Within this wider field, I have a particular interest in the discipline of systematic rational theology—or kalÄm, as it is termed in Arabic. My work covers the MuÊ¿tazilite school of theology and specifically its reception by the ZaydÄ«s, a Shiite community that has primarilly survived in Yemen. This was the subject of two books, Kausalität in der muÊ¿tazilitischen Kosmologie (link is external) (Brill, 2011) and Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya (link is external) (Brill, 2013), which won the Research Prize of the Annemarie-Schimmel-Stiftung für Islamkunde. More recently, my research has focused on AshÊ¿arite kalÄm, more specifically on one of the school's major figures, AbÅ« Bakr al-BÄqillÄnÄ«, and on the dissemination of AshÊ¿arite doctrines in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
Research Interest
Social Sciences
