Sabine Schmidtke

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Sabine Schmidtke is a German scholar of Islam . Since 2014 she has been a professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , New Jersey .

Life

Schmidtke obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986 and a Magister Artium from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1987 . In 1990 she received her PhD from Oxford University .

From 1991 to 1999 Sabine Schmidtke worked as a professional diplomat for the Foreign Office . In addition, she worked from 1997 to 1999 as a lecturer in Islamic studies for the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

From 1999, the year of her habilitation , she worked as a visiting professor for Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 2002 she became Professor of Islamic Studies there.

In 2006, she conducted research as a guest fellow (Directeur d'études invité) at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Paris , France on polemical works of Islam against Judaism.

In 2011 she became director of the Intellectual History of the Islamicate World research department at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2013 she has been an extraordinary member of the Laboratoire d'études sur les Monothéismes , Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.

Since 2014 she has been a professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Honors

  • 2002: World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the book: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Twelve Shiite Islam of the 9th and 15th centuries. Century. The world of thoughts of Ibn Abi Gumhur al-Ahsa'i , Leiden 2000
  • 2006: Prize for scientific achievements in the field of the Twelve Shiites, awarded by the Research Center for Written Cultural Assets, Tehran , Iran
  • 2011: “Award for Excellent Supervision” from the Dahlem Research School (DRS), distinction
  • 2017: Member of the American Philosophical Society

Publications (selection)

Author

Essays
  • The History of Zaydī Studies. An Introduction . In: Arabica. Journal of Arabic Islamic studies , Vol. 59 (2012), ISSN  0570-5398
Books
  • The Bible in the eyes of Muslim scholars (Einstein Lectures in Islamic Studies; 1). FUB, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815617-1-5
  • The Theology of al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī (Islamic Studies; 152). Schwarz, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-922968-93-7 (also dissertation, University of Oxford 1990)
  • Theology, philosophy and mysticism in Twelve Shiite Islam of the 9th / 15th centuries Century. The world of thoughts of Ibn Abi Gumhur al-Ahsa'i ( Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science ; 39). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-04-11531-5 .
    • English: (together with Hassan Ansari): Philosophical Theology among 6th / 12th Century Twelver Shīʿites. From Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (alive in 573/1177) to Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) , Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden ISBN 978-90-04-11531-6 .
  • Islamic studies and the science of Judaism at the turn of the century. Martin Schreiner (1863–1926), his life and work .
  • (together with Reza Pourjavady ): A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad. ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science; 65). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-15139-0 .
  • (together with Wilferd Madelung): Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication. Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Muʿtazilī Theology among the Karaites in the Fāṭimid Age (Jerusalem Studies in religion and culture; 5). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 2006, ISBN 90-04-15177-X .

Editor

  • Ferdinand Karsch-Haack: The role of homoeroticism in Arabs. Collected essays 1921-1928 (library Rosa Winkel; 3). MännerschwarmSkript-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-935596-80-0
  • (together with Camilla Adang): Contacts and controversies between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire and pre-modern Iran (Istanbuler Texte und Studien; 21). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-738-5
  • (together with Ibn-Aḥmad ʿAbd-al-Ǧabbār, Omar Hamdan): Nukat al-kitāb al-Mughnī: a review of ʿAbd Al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī's (D. 415/1025); al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa-l-ʿadl . Verlag Schwarz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87997-693-5
  • (with Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, Maribel Fierro): Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr. Brill, Leiden & Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30473-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Advanced Study: Historian of Islamic Thought Sabine Schmidtke Appointed to Faculty at Institute for Advanced Study . June 16, 2014 Retrieved January 11, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.academia-net.de/profil/prof-sabine-schmidtke/1144818
  3. ↑ http://www.academia-net.de/profil/prof-sabine-schmidtke/1144818
  4. ↑ https://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2014/schmidtke-appt
  5. ↑ https://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2014/schmidtke-appt
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ias.academia.edu
  7. ↑ DNB 97766550X
  8. ↑ DNB 1000209105
  9. ↑ DNB 1025767683
personal data
SURNAME Schmidtke, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century