Rudolph "Ruud" F. Peters (born 16 September 1943,

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

, died 26 March 2022,

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) was a scholar of Islamic Law at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. Rudolph Peters studied Law, Arabic and Turkish in

and Leiden and was appointed as lecturer at the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the

in 1968. He completed his PhD in 1979, titled ''Islam and Colonialism: The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History''. He served as the director of the Netherlands Institute for Archeology and Arabic Studies in

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from 1982 to 1987, and was appointed professor (‘bijzonder hoogleraar’) to the UvA in 1992.In memoriam Prof. dr. Rudolph Peters (1943-2022)
Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. Retrieved 5 August 2022 According to his obituary published by the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies of the

, "Peters was an expert of

Islamic law Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the ...

(the

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

) and of the legal history of Egypt, but his research interests were broader, ranging from the reintroduction of Islamic law in

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

to the Dutch nationals returning from

ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

territory."

Selected publications

* ''Islam and Colonialism: The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History'' (1979) * ''Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam: A Reader'' (1996)Jihad: A History in Documents (2016 Expanded Edition).
Markus Wiener Publishers. Retrieved 22 August 2017. * ''Jihad: A History in Documents'' (1996) * ''Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law'' (2005) * ''Sharia, Justice and Legal Order'' (2020)

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* https://uva.academia.edu/RuudPeters 1943 births Living people 20th-century Dutch historians Historians of Islam Writers from The Hague Scholars of Islamic jurisprudence University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam {{islam-historian-stub