Omar Hamdan

Omar Hamdan (* 1963 in Tira ) is an Israeli-Arab scholar of Islam .

Life

The Sunni studied Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Tübingen . In 1995 he did his doctorate there under Josef van Ess with a work on the subject of "The Koran reading of Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (110/728)" . He then worked at the University of Bonn and the Free University of Berlin . Since October 2011 he has been Professor of Koran Studies at the University of Tübingen and head of the newly established Center for Islamic Theology .

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the canonization of the Koran text: al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrīs contributions to the history of the Koran. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1995 under the title The reading of the Koran by Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (110/728): A contribution to the history of the Koran text ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Omar Hamdan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Omar Hamdan on the website of the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Omar Hamdan: The first of its kind , Die Zeit / Qantara.de , January 25, 2012, accessed on March 22, 2014.
2. ↑ Ute Kaiser: The University of Tübingen presented the new Islam Center , tagblatt.de , October 1, 2011, accessed on March 22, 2014.