Stefan Wild

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Stefan Wild (born March 2, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German orientalist .

Life

After studying at the Universities of Munich , Yale University , Erlangen and Tübingen , he received his doctorate in 1961 and completed his habilitation in 1968 at the University of Munich in the field of Semitic Studies . From 1968 to 1973 he was director of the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut / Lebanon . From 1974 to 1977 he taught as Professor of Semitic Languages ​​and Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam and from 1977 as Professor of Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn , where he became professor in 2002was retired .

He is co-editor of the magazine Die Welt des Islams , an international magazine for the history of Islam in modern times.

His main areas of work are classical Arabic literature and lexicography as well as modern Arabic literature and intellectual history.

In 2005 he was honored by the “Helga and Edzard Reuter Foundation” for his life-long scientific work on international understanding.

Fonts

  • The Kitab al-'Ain and the Arabic Lexicography. 1965, ISBN 3447010444 .
  • God and man in Lebanon: the Ṣādiq al-ʿAẓm affair. In: Islam. Vol. 48, de Gruyter, Berlin 1971 ISSN  0021-1818 , H. 2, pp. 206-253
  • Lebanese place names, typology and interpretation (= Beirut texts and studies. 9). Beirut, 1973, ISBN 3899130081 .
  • Ghassan Kanafani . The life of a Palestinian. Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3447016671 .
  • Didactic problems of academic teaching in classical Arabic. In: JH Hopkins (Ed.), General Linguistics and the Reaching of Dead Hamito-Semitic Languages. Brill, Leiden 1978, pp. 51-67
  • Muslim and Maḏhab . A letter from Tokyo to Mecca and its consequences in Damascus. In: U. Haarmann, P. Bachmann (ed.): The Islamic world between the Middle Ages and the modern age. Festschrift for Robert Roemer's 65th birthday. Beirut texts and studies. Vol. 22, Beirut 1979. pp. 674-689
  • National Socialism in the Arab East between 1933 and 1939, in Die Welt des Islam. Vol. 25. Brill, Leiden 1985, pp. 126-173
  • Ottomanism versus Arabism. The Case of Farid Kassab 1884-1970. In: The world of Islam. Vol. 28. Brill, Leiden 1988 ISSN  0043-2539 pp. 607-627
  • (Ed.): The Qur'an as Text. Brill, Leiden 1996 ISBN 9004103449
  • (Ed.): Files of the 27th German Orientalist Day. Ergon, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3935556683
  • Man, Prophet and God in the Koran: Muslim exegetes of the 20th century and the modern image of man. Rhema, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-930454-24-6
  • Ibn-Nāqiyā : Mosques, wine and evil spirits: the ten metamorphoses of the beggar al-Yashkuri. For the first time translated from Arabic, introduced and explained by Stefan Wild. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73944-6

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personal data
SURNAME Wild, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig