Edwin Paul Wieringa

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Edwin Paul Wieringa (born August 31, 1964 in Groningen ) is a Dutch scholar of Islam and a university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Gertrudis Lyceum in Roosendaal , Wieringa studied Indonesian languages ​​and cultures at the University of Leiden . After completing his studies, he worked as an employee at the University of Leiden and the University of Münster . Since 2004 Wieringa has been a professor at the Oriental Seminar at the University of Cologne . His teaching and research focus is on Indonesian philology .

Works

  • Catalog of Malay and Minangkabau manuscripts in the library of Leiden University and other collections in the Netherlands. 2nd volumes comprising the HN van der Tuuk bequest acquired by the Leiden University in 1896. Leiden: Leiden University Library , 2007 [Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis Codices Manuscripti XL]
  • Scent of ashes . Literary voices of Indonesian women (together with Monika Arnez ). Bad Honnef: Horlemann 2008, ISBN 3-8950-2269-1
  • Some Javanese characteristics of a Qu'rān manuscript from Surakarta . In: From codicology to technology. Islamic manuscripts and their place in scholarship, ed. Stefanie Brinkmann & Beate Wiesmüller (Leipzig: Frank & Timme, 2009), pp. 101–129
  • Juja-Makjuja as the Antichrist in a Javanese end-of-time narrative . In: Gog and Magog. The clans of chaos in world literature, ed. AA Seyed-Gohrab, F. Doufikar-Aerts & S. McGlinn (Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers; West-Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2007), pp. 123-152
  • Moral education through Islamic songs in twentieth-century Java . In: Religious perspectives in modern Muslim and Jewish literatures, ed. Glenda Abramson & Hilary Kilpatrick (London / New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 90–111
  • The miracles of creation , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Cologne: Edwin Paul Wieringa
personal data
SURNAME Wieringa, Edwin Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch professor for Islamic studies
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen , the Netherlands