Sabine Schmidtke

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

Sabine Schmidtke
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NationalityGermany

EducationEdit

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

CareerEdit

  • 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 ActivitiesEdit

  • 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

BooksEdit

  • 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

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