Verena Klemm

Verena Klemm (born April 29, 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German orientalist at the University of Leipzig . Her main research interests are Shiite Islam and modern Arabic literature and the literary debate.

Life

Klemm studied Islamic Studies, Comparative Religious Studies, Egyptology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen . In 1988, she was at Heinz Halm with a thesis on the Ismaili propagandist al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi doctorate . Her habilitation on the discourse of literary engagement and Sartre's reception in the Arab world took place in 1998 at the University of Hamburg. Since 2003 she has been Professor of Arabic Studies and Oriental Philology at the University of Leipzig. Since 2006 she has been leading several DFG projects in which the Islamic manuscripts of the Leipzig University Library are being recorded and researched. In 2016 she was elected to the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

Author

Essays

• The early Islamic tale of Fātima bint Muḥammad: From ḫabar to legend . In: "Der Islam" 79/1 (2002), pp. 47–86.
• The four sufarā´ of the Twelfth Imam. Concerning the Formative Period of the Twelver Shi'a. In: Etan Kohlberg (Ed.): Shiism. Aldershot, Burlington 2003. (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 33). (Ashgate-Variorum), pp. 135-152.
• Changing notions of commitment (iltizām) and committed literature (al-adab al-multazim) in the literary circles of the Middle East . In: Journal of Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures (Oxford), vol. 3, no. 1 (2000), pp. 51-62.
• Orthodoxy versus heterodoxy. European-Christian concepts and terminology in the Schia studies . In: Burkhard Schnepel u. a. (Ed.): Orient, Orientalistik, Orientalismus. History and topicality of a debate . Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 71-92, ISBN 978-3-8376-1293-6

• Deviance and dynamism. The networks of the Ismailiyya . In: Hinrich Biesterfeld u. a. (Ed.): Difference and Dynamics in Islam. Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th birthday . Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2012, pp. 221-232, ISBN 978-3-89913-885-6 .

Books

• The mission of the Fatimid agent al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi (EHS / 27, vol. 24). Peter-Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-631-42061-7 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1988).
• Memoirs of a Mission. Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: The Ismaili Scholar, Statesman and Poet. London (IB Tauris) 2003 (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, The Ismaili Heritage Series 9).
• Literary engagement in the Arab Middle East . Concepts and Debates (Communications on the Social and Cultural History of the Islamic World; Vol. 3). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-932004-77-9 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg 1997).

Editor

• together with Karin Hörner (ed.): The sword of the "expert". Peter Scholl-Latour's distorted image of Arabs and Islam. Palmyra, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-9802298-6-6 .
• together with Beatrice Gründler (ed.): Understanding Near Eastern Literatures. A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches. Wiesbaden (Dr. Ludwig Reichert) 2000 (literatures in context: Arabic, Persian, Turkish. 1.).
• Refaiya 1853. Book culture in Damascus (writings from the university library ; vol. 29). Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86583-772-1 (also exhibition catalog, April 18 to July 14, 2013).
• together with Marie Hakenberg: Muslims in Saxony. History, facts, worlds. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-361-00715-4 .
• together with Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Hrsg / eds.): Difference and Dynamics. Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th birthday - Difference and dynamics in Islam. Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th birthday. Würzburg 2012,

Web links

• website