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