Christian R. Lange

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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.

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