#  Baber Johansen 

Research Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin

 

 

 



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Baber Johansen's research has addressed the *longue durée* of Islamic legal and religious thought, ranging from works on early Islamic theology to theories of the state in the modern Middle East. Among his publications are *Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent* *(*Croom Helm, 1988) and *Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim* Fiqh (Brill, 1999).



 

 

 





 

 

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