G. R. Hawting

Gerald R. Hawting (born 1944) is a British Orientalist scholar of Islam. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),^[1] where he completed his education under Bernard Lewis and John Wansbrough, receiving his PhD in 1978.

Works

• The First Dynasty of Islam (1986), translated two volumes in the Tabari Translation Project (vols. 17, 20), edited together with Abdul Kader Shereef,
• Approaches to the Quran, ed. (1993)
• The Idea of Idolatry and the Rise of Islam: From Polemic to History., 1999 Cambridge University Press
• "John Wansbrough, Islam, and monotheism". in Quest for the Historical Muhammad edited by Ibn Warraq.
• The Development of Islamic Ritual, ed. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 26).

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