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Hosn Abboud is a lecturer at the American University of Beirut. She received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Toronto. Her research interests are the interpretation of the Quran, modern Arabic feminist writings, “Islamic feminism,” and the role of women in consolidating the culture of dialogue and peace. She is an active member of the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers (Bāḥithāt), cofounder of “The Path of Mary,” an interfaith dialogue movement, and a founding member of “Beirut Ethics Colloquia.”
Camilla Adang is professor of Islamic studies at Tel Aviv University. She received her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (1993) and spent several research stays in Madrid, Venice, Jerusalem and Göttingen. Her main fields of research are the history of Islamic thought in al-Andalus in general and the oeuvre of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba in particular, as well as polemical exchanges between Muslims and Jews. Asma Afsaruddin is professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles on various aspects of Islamic thought and was named a Carnegie scholar in 2005.
Mustafa Banister is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Utah State University. He has previously held research positions at Ghent University (2018–2021) and Bonn University (2015–2016). He obtained a doctorate in Islamic history from the University of Toronto (2015). His first monograph is entitled The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo (1261–1517): Out of the shadows (Edinburgh, 2021). He has published articles in the Mamlūk Studies Review, Hawwa, and several book chapters. His current book project carries the title: Adrift on an ocean of eloquence: Muslim kingship in the historical writing of Ibn ʿArabshāh.
Lale Behzadi has been professor of Arabic studies at the University of Bamberg since 2009. She has studied Arabic and Persian literature, Near and Middle Eastern studies, and German philology in Halle, Göttingen and Cairo. Her research focuses on Arabic (adab) literature, theoretical and comparative approaches to modern and pre-modern Arabic texts, concepts of authorship and the history of emotions.
Enrico Boccaccini is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut (oib). He received his PhD in 2020 from the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. His research interests include Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes as well as Sufi literature.
Rainer Brunner is directeur de recherche at the cnrs, psl Research University Paris, lem (umr 8584). He received his PhD from the University of Freiburg (1996) where he was also assistant professor (1998–2004), and spent some time at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Jerusalem (2002/2003) and Princeton (2004/2005 and 2013/2014). Since 2017, he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Die Welt des Islams (Leiden).
Hans Daiber held the chair of Oriental languages at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (1995–2010) until his retirement. He also taught at the Free University of Amsterdam (1977–1995), the University of Tokyo (1992), and the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur (2001). His fields of research include Islamic philosophy, theology, the history of sciences, and the field of Greek-Syriac-Arabic-Latin translations.
Yassir El Jamouhi is an assistant professor in the Department of German Studies at the Hassan ii University of Casablanca. From 2015 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 “Education and Religion” at the University of Göttingen. He received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Göttingen. His current research focuses on discourse and dialogue analysis, intercultural communication, and Islamic ethics and education.
Reinhard Feldmeier is professor and chair emeritus of the New Testament at the University of Göttingen. He received his PhD in 1986 from Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. After serving in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria and his Habilitation in Tübingen, he was professor of the Old and New Testament at the University of Koblenz (1992–1995) and professor and chair of Biblical Theology at the University of Bayreuth (1995–2002).
Manfred Fleischhammer received his PhD in 1955 and his Habilitation in 1966 from Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg. Later he held the chair of Arabic and Islamic studies at this university until his retirement in 1991. He has published widely on early Arabic prose as well as the transmission of knowledge in classical Islam, focusing on the lives and books of famous learned families. In memory of Carl Brockelmann, his teacher of the Turkish language in the early 1950s, OttomanTurkish documents in the archives of the Francke Endowments in Halle (Saale) are now of special interest in his field of research.
Peter Gemeinhardt is professor and chair of Church History at the University of Göttingen. He received his doctoral degree (Dr. theol.) in 2001 from the University of Marburg and was awarded his Habilitation in 2006 by the University of Jena. From 2015 to 2020 he served as director of the Collaborative Research Centre “Education and Religion” in Göttingen. His current research focuses on Late Antique Christianity, especially on education, hagiography, and trinitarian theology.
Mahmoud Haggag holds the substitute professorship of Islamic law and religious practice at the University of Osnabrück. At the same time, he is an associate professor of Islamic studies at Al-Azhar University, Cairo. He received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Kassel. Since then, he has held several appointments as lecturer and faculty staff member at Al-Azhar University and the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. His research focuses on the hermeneutics of normative religious texts in Islam as well as the field of tension between language, law, and education in classical Islam.
Wadad Kadi (al-Qāḍī) is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Thought, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Prior to her retirement in 2009 she taught at the American University of Beirut, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She received several honors, among them the King Faisal International Prize in Ancient Arabic Prose in 1994. She has published widely on early Arabic prose, Islamic political thought, the impact of the Quran on Arabic literature, early Islamic theology and sectarianism, and most recently on Umayyad bureaucracy and administrative history.
Fabian Käs is a research fellow at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2008, he received his PhD in Semitic studies from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. His fields of interest include Islamicate medicine, mineralogy, astrology and natural sciences.
Todd Lawson is professor emeritus of Islamic thought in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University (Montreal) in 1988 and began teaching at the University of Toronto the same year. He specializes in Quranic studies, philosophical theology and Shiʿism on which he has published numerous books and articles. Ulrich Marzolph served most of his professional life as a member of the editorial committee of the German-language Enzyklopädie des Märchens. He is adjunct professor of Islamic studies at the University of Göttingen. His main area of interest is the study of Middle Eastern Muslim narrative culture. Christian Mauder is professor of Islamic studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies in 2017 from the University of Göttingen. Before coming to Berlin, he served as associate professor at the University of Bergen and completed postdoctoral appointments at Yale University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New York University Abu Dhabi, and the University of Bonn.
Jane McAuliffe is distinguished senior research fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in 1984 from the University of Toronto and has held teaching positions at Emory University and the University of Toronto (professor), and administrative positions at Georgetown University (dean), Bryn Mawr College (president) and the Library of Congress (director).
Maryam Moazzen is associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Louisville. She holds PhDs in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran (1998) and in Islamic studies from the University of Toronto (2011). Her research focuses on Shiʿi educational institutions and religious authorities. Tilman Nagel held the chair of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1981 until his retirement in 2007. In 1967 he obtained his PhD at the University of Bonn, where he taught Islamic studies until 1981. The main fields of his research are Islamic history and Islamic theology. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath is professor of Classics (Greek Literature) at the Institute of Classical Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He received his PhD in 1981 from the University of Cologne (where he was academic staff member from1981 to1989). From 1992 to 2001 he was professor of Classics (Greek Literature) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Angelika Neuwirth is professor emerita of Arabic studies at the Free University of Berlin. She received her PhD in 1972 from the University of Göttingen and her Habilitation in 1977 from the University of Munich. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Yale, Basel, Bern, and Bamberg. Currently, she is the director of the Corpus Coranicum project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Jana Newiger is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen. She received her ma from the University of Göttingen in 2015. Her current research focuses on the intellectual and theological history of early Ibadism. W. Georg Olms is ceo of Georg Olms Publishers and President of the Asil Club e.V. (International Association for the Preservation and Rearing of the Asil Arabian Horse). He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Urbino, Italy in 1985 (Dr. phil. h.c.) and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main in 1988 (Dr. med. h.c.). In 1987, he became an honorary senator at the University of Hildesheim (Senator h.c.). He received the Niedersächsisches Verdienstkreuz am Bande (Lower Saxony Cross of Merit on a ribbon) in 2007 and has authored numerous books, articles and speeches on literary criticism and the breeding and keeping of Asil Arabians.
Dorothee Pielow (Lauer) is an academic staff member at the University of Göttingen’s Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 1994, she received her PhD in Arabic studies and Ethnology from this university and has held several academic appointments since then, including one in the Database of Classical Islamic Pedagogy project in Göttingen. Her current research focuses on the history of the occult sciences and magic in Islam. Ute Pietruschka is a researcher involved in the long-term project “Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections” (kohd) at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. She received her PhD in Oriental studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1986 and held several academic positions at that university as well as at the University of Queensland and the University of Marburg. Her scholarly interests include Christian Oriental cultures, the transmission of Greek thought in the Near East, and the Digital Humanities.
Lutz Richter-Bernburg retired as chair of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Tübingen in 2010. He was awarded the degrees of Dr. phil. and Dr. phil. habil. at the University of Göttingen in 1969 and 1986. Before his position at the University of Tübingen, he held research and teaching appointments at Los Angeles (ucla), Göttingen, Aleppo, Bonn, New York (Columbia), Berlin (Free University), and Leipzig. Ali Rida K. Rizek received his PhD in 2021 from the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. He received his ma in Arabic language and literature from the American University of Beirut in 2014. His main fields of interest include the intellectual and social development of ShiʿiIslam as well as Quranic and exegetical studies.
Mohammed Rustom is professor of Islamic thought at Carleton University.He obtained his PhDfrom the University of Toronto in 2009, specializing in Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and Quranic exegesis. Abdulrahman al-Salimi (al-Salmi) is the editor-in-chief of the Omani journal al-Tafahom. He received his PhD from Durham University in 2001. He has published on Omani history and earlyIslamic theology. His further research interests include Arabic nautical terminology in the Indian Ocean and early Islamic law in Basra in the 2nd/8th century. Jens Scheiner is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Göttingen. He received his PhD in 2009 from the Radboud University, Nijmegen. From 2010 to 2016, he was junior professor and research group leader at the Courant Research Center “Education and Religion” (edris) at the University of Göttingen. His research interests include the history of Islamic origins and the classical period of Islam as well as ḥadīth studies with a focus on isnad-cum-matn analysis.
Gregor Schoeler is professor emeritus of the University of Basel, where he held the chair of Arabic and Islamic studies until his retirement in 2009. He received his PhD in 1972 from Justus Liebig University, Giessen, and his Habilitation in 1981 from the same university. He accepted guest professorships and fellowships at several distinguished institutions, including the École Pratique des Hautes Études à la Sorbonne, Cornell University (Ithaca), and the Special Research Centre (sfb) “Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa” in Hamburg. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Delalande-Guérineau Prize and the World Prize for the Book of the Year of Iran.
Werner Schwartz is a researcher of Islamic history based in Göttingen. After studying medieval and modern history, Arabic and Islamic studies, and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Vienna and Cairo, he obtained his PhD in 1983 from the University of Bonn. He worked as curator of oriental collections at the Göttingen State and University Library for most of his professional life. His research interests include Islamic history in general and Ibadi history in particular as well as the history of science and technology and manuscript studies. Ali Shaban is professor of African studies and former dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Translation at Al-Azhar University. He received his PhD in 1983 in General Linguistics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His research interests include general linguistics and foreign language teaching as well as African languages and literature.
Monika Winet studied Islamic studies and Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature. She is a lecturer at the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern studies, University of Basel, from where she received her PhD in Islamic studies in 2001. Until 2009 she was a research staff member and acting director (2008–2009) of this institute. From 2009–2015 she served as managing director at the Courant Research Centre “Education and Religion,” University of Göttingen. Her main research topics include Christian-Arabic literature (Karshūnī), travelogues, Aljamiado literature, and language contact in al-Andalus.
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