He is Emeritus Professor for the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
[1] In the line of John Wansbrough, Hawting concentrated on the question for the religious milieu in which Islam came into being.
He analysed available sources about the religions on the Arabian Peninsula in the time before Islam in detail.
[citation needed] Another theme of Hawting's research is the period of the Umayyad dynasty which was of great importance for the formation of Islam as a religion.
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