Andreas Kaplony

Andreas Kaplony (* 1960 in Heidelberg ) is a Swiss scholar of Islam .

Life

In 1986 he obtained a licentiate in general history, Arabic language and literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich . From 1986 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Zurich, Ancient History Department. From 1990 to 1995 he was an assistant at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the University of Bern . After completing his doctorate in general history and Arabic language and literature in 1994 at the University of Zurich ( Constantinople and Damascus. Embassies and treaties between emperors and caliphs 639–750. Studies on customary international law and intercultural diplomacy ) he was a scholarship holder from 1995 to 1998 Swiss National Science Foundation , 2 years research stay at the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem . From 1998 to 1999 he was a research assistant in the project cataloging the manuscripts of the Burgerbibliothek Bern. From 1999 to 2000 he was a research assistant in the DFG project digitization of the Heidelberg papyri at the Institute for Papyrology of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 2000 to 2001 he had a habilitation grant from the University of Zurich. After completing his habilitation in Islamic studies in 2001 at the University of Zurich (title of the habilitation thesis: The Ḥaram of Jerusalem (324-1099): Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of ​​Spiritual Power), he was a research fellow from 2001 to 2004 at the Gerda Henkel Foundation with the project Drehscheibe the Silk Road: the organization of trade in Central Asia (7th - 16th centuries) and lecturer and private lecturer at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Zurich. From 2004 to 2010 he taught as an assistant professor for Islamic studies at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Zurich. After the Qualification aux fonctions d'enseignant chercheur (maître de conférences, professeur d'université) in Paris in 2004, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology since 2004. Since 2004 he has been a board member of the Swiss Asian Society. Since 2004 he has been the project manager of the Arabic Papyrology Database. In the winter semester 2005/2006 he taught as a visiting professor for modern history (with a focus on Islamic culture in the Mediterranean region) at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna . From 2010 to 2011 he was a research assistant / lecturer for Arabic at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Zurich. In 2010 he received offers to the W3 professorship for Islamic studies at the University of Hamburg (rejected) and the W3 professor for Arabic and Islamic studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (accepted). Since 2011 he has been teaching as W3 professor for Arabic and Islamic studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2012 he has been co-editor of the journal Der Islam and the series Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East . In 2015/2016 he viewed the holdings of the Austrian National Library as part of the Papyri of the Early Arab Period Online project . Since 2017 he has been the spokesman for the Munich Center for Islamic Studies. Since 2018 he has been President of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology.

Fonts (selection)

• Constantinople and Damascus. Embassies and treaties between emperors and caliphs 639-750 . Investigations into customary international law and intercultural diplomacy . Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87997-260-5 .
• The Haram of Jerusalem (324-1099). Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of ​​Spiritual Power . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-07901-7 .
• Twenty-five Arabic documents from the Red Sea port of al-Quṣayr al-Qadīm (7th / 13th centuries) [P. QuseirArab. II]. Edition, translation and commentary . Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27753-3 .
• as editor with Michael Marx : Qur'ān quotations preserved on papyrus documents, 7th – 10th centuries and the problem of Carbon dating early Qur'āns . Leiden 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-35891-1 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaplony