Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke is a scholar hailing from Germany whose has been to different countries in the middle to conduct her researches in various historical, philosophical and theological topics.

Education

• Habilitation, The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, 1999
• Phd, University of Oxford, 1990
• Master of Arts, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1987
• Bachelor of Arts, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1986

Career

• Faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2014–present
• Associated Faculty, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 2014–present
• Professor, Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, 2002-2014
• Visiting Professor, Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, 1999–2001
• Lecturer, Islamic Studies, The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, 1997–1999
• Diplomat, German Foreign Office, 1991–1999

Academic Activities

• Visiting Director of Studies, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris, 2018
• Associate member, Laboratory for Monotheism Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, 2013–present
• Co-initiator and Founding academic director, Trilateral MA program 'Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World' at Free University of Berlin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Al-Quds University, 2013-2014
• Founding Director, Research Unit of Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Free University of Berlin, 2011–2014

Books

• Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Brill, 2020
• The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2019
• The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, Oxford University Press, 2018
• Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions (Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies), Lockwood Press, 2017
• Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on takfīr, Brill, 2016
• A Common Rationality. Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism, Ergon, 2007

• Articles
• Histories of Books in the Islamicate World. Part I, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, vol 4, 2016
• Jewish and Christian reception(s) of Muslim Theology, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, vol. 2, 2014
• The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, vol. 1, 2013
• The neglected Shiʿites: Studies in the legal and intellectual history of the Zaydis, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, vol 59, 2012

• Achievements & Honors
• 'Humboldt-Forschungspreis', Humboldt Research Award, 2019
• Awarded Prize of Scholarly Achievement by Written Heritage Research Centre, Tehran for the Study of Twelver Shiʿism, 2006
• The Book of the Year Prize of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2000

Sources

• Sabine Schmidtke's personal website