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

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, died 26 March 2022,

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) was a scholar of

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ic Law at the

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. 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)
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, "Peters was an expert of

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(the

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

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to the Dutch nationals returning from

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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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External links

* 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