Christian R. Lange
Christian Robert Lange (born December 5, 1975 in Berlin ) is a German-speaking Islamic scholar and writer .
Life
Lange was born in Berlin in 1975 and graduated from high school in Recklinghausen . After studying Islam, religion and law in Tübingen , Cairo , Paris and Cambridge , he received his doctorate in 2006 from Harvard University with a thesis on the history of Islamic law and religion. From 2007 to 2011 he researched and taught as a lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh . Since spring 2011 he has been Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at the University of Utrecht .
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In 2005, under the pseudonym Robert Nagel, he published the travel diary Once Islam and Back . In this collection of essays on cities in the Islamic world, he describes, among other things, his experiences in traditional Islamic teaching institutions ( madrasas ) in Morocco , Oman and Iran . He also gives an insight into how Islamic societies were in the year of the American invasion of Iraq .
His debut novel The Secret Name of God was published in 2008. It tells of the fate of Ibn Battuta , the "Marco Polo of the Arabs", who traveled the entire Islamic world from Morocco to China in the 14th century . In The Secret Name of God , motifs from Islamic mysticism ( Sufism ) are interwoven with the political history of Islam and inserted into a framework story that spans epochs.
Fonts
- Robert Nagel: To Islam and back. Kadmos, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-931659-68-2 .
- Christian R. Lange: The secret name of God. Zabern, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3841-7 .
- Christian Lange: Justice, Punishment, and the Medieval Muslim Imagination. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-88782-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian R. Lange in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian R. Lange on the website of the University of Utrecht (English)
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SURNAME | Lange, Christian R. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lange, Christian Robert; Nagel, Robert (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |