Angelika Neuwirth
Angelika Neuwirth | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 November 1943 |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, Munich |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Qur’anic Studies |
| Sub-discipline | Order in Qur’anic Chapters |
| Doctoral students | Nicolai Sinai |
Angelika Neuwirth FBA (born 4 November, 1943) is a German Islamic studies scholar and Professor of Qur’anic studies at the Free University of Berlin.
Education
[edit | edit source]Born in Nienburg, Lower Saxony,[1] she studied Islamic studies, Semitic studies and classical philology at the Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, and Munich.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Neuwirth is also the director of the research project Corpus Coranicum.[3][4] Between 1994 and 1999, she was the director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies in Beirut and Istanbul. She currently works as a professor in Freie University in Berlin and as a visiting professor at the University of Jordan in Amman, and her research focuses on the Qur'an, its interpretations, and modern Arabic literature in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Palestinian poetry and prose related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Awards
[edit | edit source]In 2011 she was named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[5] and in 2012 was granted an honorary doctorate from Yale University's Department of Religious Studies.[3][6] In June 2013, the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung awarded her its Sigmund Freud Prize for her research on the Qur'an.[7][8] In July 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[9]
Publications
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- English translation: Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic Prophecy.
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- English translation: Volume 2.1: Early Middle Meccan Suras. The New People of God.
See also
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- ^ Qantara website, article by Stefan Weidner 6 May 2011
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- ^ YaleNews May 21, 2012
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