Lutz Berger

Lutz Berger (born March 7, 1969 in Korbach ) is a German scholar of Islam .

After graduating from high school in 1988 at the Edertal School in Frankenberg and doing community service (1988–1990) in Frankenberg (mobile care for the elderly), he studied Islamic Studies, Turkology, Central Asian Studies and Medieval and Modern History in Göttingen from 1990 to 1997 . After receiving his doctorate in 1997 in Göttingen with Peter Bachmann with a thesis on the mystic Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Sulamī, he was a research assistant from October 1998 , and since April 2000 research assistant at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Tübingen . From April to October 2006 he held the chair for Islamic Studies at the Department of Oriental Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From October 2006 to September 2007 he was an academic advisor at the Oriental Seminar in Tübingen . After his habilitation in 2006 in the subject of Islamic Studies with a habilitation thesis on the world and concept of man in Syrian biographers 1550–1791, he has been W2 - Professor of Islamic Studies and Turkology at the University of Kiel since October 2007 .

Fonts (selection)

Divorced from everything but God. Sufik and the world with Abū ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Sulamī . Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-487-10650-7 .
Society and Individual in Damascus 1550–1791 . Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-89913-596-2 .
Islamic theology . Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-3303-7 .
The emergence of Islam. The first hundred years. From Mohammed to the world empire of the caliphs . Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69693-0 .