Georges Nicolas Tamer

Georges Nicolas Tamer , also Ǧūrǧ Tāmir (* 1960 in Kfarhazir ), is a Lebanese scholar of Islam .

Life

As a child in Lebanon infected with polio , he could not attend elementary school and was dependent on self-taught learning and private tuition. After attending grammar school for a year in Lebanon , he moved to Germany , where he studied philosophy, sociology and theology in Frankfurt am Main with Jürgen Habermas , among others . In 1995 he received his master's degree in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin and in 2000 received his doctorate there in philosophy. In 2007 he completed his habilitation in Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Until September 2012 he was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and holder of the MS Sofia Chair for Arabic Studies at Ohio State University . He teaches at the Chair for Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies in Erlangen - Nuremberg .

As a member of the Rum Orthodox Church , he founded a parish in Berlin. He has participated in various ecumenical activities and interreligious dialogue groups in Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity. The relationship between Leo Strauss and Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes . Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-04-12029-7 .
• Time and god. Hellenistic concepts of time in ancient Arabic poetry and in the Koran . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020057-7 .
• as editor with Hanna Röbbelen and Peter Lintl: Arabischer Aufbruch. Interdisciplinary studies to classify a historical phenomenon . Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 3-8487-1386-1 .
• as editor: The Koran Hermeneutics by Günter Lüling . Berlin 2019, ISBN 3-11-059812-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georges Nicolas Tamer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer