{{Short description|German Islamic studies scholar}} '''Gerhard Böwering''' is a German academic, currently Professor of Islamic Studies within the Department of Religious Studies, Yale University. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gerhard+H.+B%C3%B6wering&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2022-02-22|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 following his "formative influence of al-Sulami's commentary on the Qur'an."

==Academic career== Böwering was previously an academic at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

===God and his Attributes=== Professor Böwering was an author of articles in the Encyclopaedia of the Quran including ''Chronology and the Quran'' and ''God and his Attributes.''<ref name=GB1>Böwering, Gerhard. "God and His Attributes", Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Brill, 2007</ref>

Sahih Bukhari Hadith recorded that Abu Hurairah reported that God has ninety-nine names (''99 Attributes of Allah''). Böwering refers to Chapter 17 of the Quran (al isrāʼ) ({{qref|17|110|pl=y}}) as the ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locus_classicus locus classicus]'' to which explicit lists of the names used to be attached in Qur'anic exegesis (''tafsir'').

According to Böwering, {{quote |They are traditionally enumerated as 99 in number to which is added as the highest Name (al-ism al-ʾaʿẓam), the Supreme Name of Allāh. The locus classicus for listing the Divine Names in the literature of Qurʾānic commentary is {{qref|17|110|pl=y}} “Call upon Allah, or call upon The Merciful; whichsoever you call upon, to Allah belong the most beautiful Names,” and also {{qref|59|22-24|pl=y}}, which includes a cluster of more than a dozen Divine epithets."|Gerhard Böwering|''God and God's Attributes''<ref name=GB1/>}}

According to Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism, God in Islam does not have associates and companions, nor is there any kinship between God (Allah) and jinn.<ref name=GB1/>

==Publications== *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=UabRPEv_Lq0C The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam]''. Berlin-New York, 1980. *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pae9CwAAQBAJ The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism]''. Brill, Leiden, 2013. *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=q1I0pcrFFSUC The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought]'' (editors: Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone and Mahan Mirza). Princeton University Press, 2013, {{ISBN|978-0-691-13484-0}}. *''The Minor Qur’an Commentary of al-Sulami'', Beirut, 1995, 2nd ed., 1997. *''Sufi Inquiries and Interpretations'', Beirut, 2010. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darelmachreq.com/pop.php?book_id=31 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410174517/http://www.darelmachreq.com/pop.php?book_id=31 |archive-date=April 10, 2013 |title=الديانة المسيحية - Dar el Machreq - دار المشرق |url-status=dead |accessdate=March 17, 2013 }}</ref> *''Sufi Treatises'', Beirut, 2009.

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==External links== * [https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/gerhard-bowering Profile on Yale University website]

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