Stefan Leder
Stefan Leder (born May 11, 1951 in Göttingen ) is a German orientalist .
Life
From 1972 to 1974 he studied German literature, comparative literature and Islamic studies at the University of Mainz , from 1974 to 1975 Arabic studies and language teacher at the Institut Bourguiba in Tunis and from 1975 to 1978 oriental philology, German literature and comparative literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (1978 MA). From 1978 to 1982 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation (research project on Byzantine legal history ; dissertation in oriental philology, University of Frankfurt (about Ibn al-Jauzî)). From 1982 to 1984 he was a lecturer at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut and Amman . From 1984 to 1990 he was a research assistant in Frankfurt am Main .
After obtaining his habilitation in oriental studies in 1989 at the University of Frankfurt, he conducted research from 1991 to 1992 in Damascus, Academy of Arabic Language. From 1990 to 1993 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. In 1993 he became Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 2001 to 2007 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 586 Difference and Integration . From 2007 to 2017 he was director of the Orient Institute in Beirut and Istanbul .
His main research interests are narrativity and history in Arab literature, knowledge transfer in Arab premodern culture and religious-political dogma, particularly in Sunni and ultra-Sunni Islam.
Fonts (selection)
- Ibn al-Ǧauzī and his compilation against passion. The traditionalist in learned tradition and original teaching . Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 978-3-515-03701-3 .
- The corpus of al-Haitam Ibn-Aʿdī (st. 207/822). Origin, tradition, form of early texts in aḫbār literature . Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-465-02283-1 .
- as editor: Story-telling in the framework of non-fictional Arabic literature . Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04034-3 .
- as editor with Bernhard Streck : Shifts and drifts in nomad sedentary relations . Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-413-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leder, Stefan. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 12, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leather, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |