Professor Baber Johansen
Research Interests
- Law and Religion in Classical and Modern Muslim World
- Long-Term Changes in Islamic Classical and Postclassical Legal Doctrine
- Modern Muslim Debates on State Models
- The Status of Islamic Law in Modern Arab Legislation and Jurisprudence
- Twentieth-Century Liberal Interpretations of Islam
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
- Contracts
- Evidence and Proof
- Islamic Law
- Legal History
- Property
Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries
- Islamic Law
Education
- Freie Universität Berlin, Ph.D. 1965
- Freie Universität Berlin, Habilitation 1972
Appointments
- Professor for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 1972-1995
- Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d'Étude des Normes Juridiques), Paris, 1995-2005