Marco Schöller

Marco Schöller (* 1968 in Regensburg ) is a German scholar of Islam .

Life

From 1988 to 1997, Schöller studied Islamic Studies, Philosophy and Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . He spent semesters abroad at the University of Aleppo in Syria and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland . He also did research in Italy. In 1997 he was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Dr. phil. PhD. He then received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation and was a research assistant or senior assistant at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Cologne . In 2004 he completed his habilitation in Islamic studies and became a private lecturer. In 2008 he became professor for Islamic history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He is a member of the German-Yemeni Society , the German Oriental Society and the Center for Inter- and Transcultural Studies at Cologne University.

Exegetical thinking and biography of the prophets. A source-critical analysis of the Sīra tradition on Muḥammad's conflict with the Jews (= discourses of Arabic studies . Vol. 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04105-6 .
Method and Truth in Islamic Studies. Prolegomena . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04335-0 .
The Living and the Dead in Islam: Studies in Arabic Epitaphs . Vol. 2: Epitaphs in Context . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05083-7 .
(Translator / Ed.): Yaḥyā Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī : The Book of Forty Hadith = Kitāb al-arbaʿīn . With the commentary by Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd Verlag der Welttreligionen, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-70006-7 .
Mohammed (= Suhrkamp-BasisBiographie . 34). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-18234-5 .
This Unknown Land. How Geographers, Pharmacists, Novelists, Plant Hunters, War Correspondents, Engineers, Medical Men & Tourists Discovered & Experienced Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria . Janet45, Plovdiv 2020.