Jacques Waardenburg

Biographic Data

ID3647136
NAMEJacques Waardenburg
GIVEN NAMESJacques
FAMILY NAMEWaardenburg
SIGNATUREWAARDENBURG J
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods, and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

    Jacques Waardenburg, Russell T MccutcheonBOOKClassical Approaches to the Study…2017

    Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of t…

  • Islam: Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives

    Jacques Waardenburg, Jean Jacques WaardenburgBOOKIslam2015

    This book presents some twenty essays on different aspects of Islam in history and the present. These essays are grouped into eight larger sections. first, The Beginnings, deals with the transition from pre-Islamic understandings and reason, an essential part of the Quranic message. next two sections deal with Islam specifically as a religion with its particular signs and symbols. question of rules of interpretation in Islam and its structural fe…

  • Muslims As Actors: Islamic Meanings and Muslim Interpretations in the Perspective of the Study of Religions

    Jacques WaardenburgBOOKMuslims As Actors2012

  • L’Islam, les orientalistes et l’Occident. Recherche de contact et de dialogue1

    Open AccessJacques WaardenburgARTICLEThéologiques2008

    Cet article veut promouvoir la coopération et le dialogue entre les occidentaux et les musulmans dans un proche avenir. Il s’intéresse à l’originalité et la créativité humaines telles que requises dans des situations de rencontre. Un défi majeur de notre époque est celui de la communication, y compris en ce qui concerne les religions. Ceci constitue en effet un test pour la dignité humaine et le résultat n’est pas certain. Fondamentalement, islam…

  • Louis Massignon (1883-1962) as a Student of Islam

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEDie Welt des Islams2005Cited by: 1

    Since Massignon's death in 1962, some twenty-five volumes and innumerable articles have appeared about Louis Massignon's work and life. In addition to his biography and the context in which he lived, much attention has been given to his spirituality that constituted the background of his life and work and has had a fascination for his followers. Scholars have used Massignon's studies and presentation of al-Hallaj and Islamic mysticism in general …

  • Christians, Muslims, Jews, and their religions

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…2004

    Depending on the context, Christians, Muslims and Jews have constructed their own religion, perceived the religions of others, and articulated relations between religions in different ways. This paper examines the rise in history of the three communities, which came to identify themselves through their religions and have been highly sensitive to differences. It indicates common features and parallels of which adherents may have been more or less …

  • Muslims and Others: Relations in Context

    Jacques WaardenburgBOOKMuslims and Others2003

    Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume " Islam " (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tens…

  • Between Baghdad and Birmingham: Minorities--Christian and Muslim

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…2003References: 3

    This paper deals with majority-minority relations that very much condition relations between Muslims and Christians. The first part gives some factual data about Muslim minorities in Europe and Christian minorities in Muslim countries and makes some comparisons between their situations at present. The second part questions the very idea of speaking of Muslims and Christians in terms of majority and minority, since this imposes a political scheme …

  • Islam et sciences des religions: Huit lecons au College de France

    Pierre Lory, Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEStudia Islamica2001

  • Muslims and Christians: Changing identities

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…2000Cited by: 2References: 1

    (2000). Muslims and Christians: Changing identities. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 149-162

  • Observations On the Scholarly Study of Religions as Pursued in Some Muslim Countries

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEMethod & Theory in the Study of…2000

    The article examines the study of at scholarly institutions in Muslim countries. As far as Islam and thought is concerned, both traditional and overly ideological approaches are problematic from a scholarly point of view. With regard to the study of other than Islam, interesting initiatives have been taken in several countries. Difficulties on a practical level include a lack of good handbooks in the Islamic languages, while books published in th…

  • Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion: Aims, Methods and Theories of Research. Introduction and Anthology

    Jacques WaardenburgBOOKClassical Approaches to the Study…1999

    Tracing the rise of the scholarly study of religion from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, this textbook on the history of the scholarly study of religion is suitable for courses on the problems of method and theory as treated by the founders of the discipline.

  • Observations on the Scolarly Study of Religions as Pursued in some Muslim Countries

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLENumen1998

    The article examines the study of religions at scholarly institutions in Muslim countries. As far as Islam and Islamic thought is concerned, both traditional and overly ideological approaches are problematic from a scholarly point of view. With regard to the study of religions other than Islam, interesting initiatives have been taken in several countries. Difficulties on a practical level include a lack of good handbooks in the “Islamic” language…

  • Critical issues in Muslim‐Christian relations: Theoretical, practical, dialogical, scholarly

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…1997

    In treating some critical issues in Muslim‐Christian relations at present and in the near future I would like to say something on the basis of what may be qualified as ‘critical realism’ on the one hand and ‘constructive partnership’ on the other. My purpose here is to identify some issues with which we have to cope when we want to improve relations between Muslims and Christians for times to come

  • L'Islam et l'articulation d'identités musulmanes

    Open AccessJacques WaardenburgARTICLESocial Compass1994

    The last 25 years have shown a marked increase in the meanings which Muslims attach to the concept of Islam. The first part of this paper discusses some of these new meanings of Islam: new socio-political meanings in a national and in an international context as well as new moral meanings. The second part discusses aspects of the relations between Islam and national consciousness which have changed considerably in the course of the 20th century. …

  • Geschichte und Probleme der Religionswissenschaft (Studies in the History of Religions Vol. LIII)

    Jacques Waardenburg, Kurt RudolphARTICLENumen1993

  • Human Rights, Human Dignity and Islam

    Open AccessJacques WaardenburgARTICLETemenos - Nordic Journal for the…1991

    No abstract available

  • Turning Points in Religious Studies. Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Parrinder

    Jacques Waardenburg, Ursula KingARTICLENumen1991

  • Humanities, Social Sciences and Islamic Studies

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEIslam and Christian–Muslim…1990References: 7

    Three avenues in Islamic studies are distinguished. The humanities study the languages, texts and history of Islam as a civilisation and religion. The main difficulty confronting them is to understand properly the texts studied. Anthropology, sociology and political science constitute the main contribution of the social sciences. Here the main difficulty lies in explaining religious data correctly within their context. In religious studies, the t…

  • The Persistence of Islam in Central Asia

    Open AccessJacques WaardenburgARTICLETemenos - Nordic Journal for the…1990

    No abstract available

  • La Personne En Deça Et Au-Delà De L'Islam

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEArabica1989

    L'A. indique ce qui constitue, dans le Coran, l'essentiel du privilege et de la responsabilite de l'homme, Adam figurant comme l'archetype de la personne humaine statu nascendi , tout comme Abraham represente le modele exemplaire du croyant. La politisation propre a la structure de l'islam a cependant tendance a privilegier tres nettement la vie communautaire aux depens de la personne humaine. Une etude comparative du statut de la personne dans l…

  • Menneskelig indsigt ved studiet af religion

    Open AccessJacques WaardenburgARTICLEReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift1989

    It is suggested that there are at least four kinds of insight which can be obtained in the course of the study of religion. To start with, we can obtain insight into the very different motivations and intentions with which people, including ourselves, can set out to study religion.Secondly, in the course of our work we can arrive at a better insight into the complexity of the scholarly study of religion and in particular the very different approa…

  • Muslim Enlightenment and Revitalization. Movements of Modernization and Reform in Tsarist Russia (ca. 1850-1917) and the Dutch East Indies (ca. 1900-1942)

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1988

    Jacques Waardenburg, Muslim Enlightenment and Revitalization. Movements of Modernization and Reform in Tsarist Russia (ca. 1850-1917) and the Dutch East Indies (ca. 1900-1942), Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Bd. 28, Nr. 1/4 (1988), pp. 569-584

  • Muslim Enlightenment and Revitalization

    Jacques WaardenburgARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1988

  • Religionen und Religion: Systematische Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft

    Jacques WaardenburgBOOKReligionen und Religion1986