Department Member, Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Institut für Islamwissenschaft
Institut Dominicain d'Études Orientales (IDEO), Cairo
Institut M.-Dominique Chenu, Espaces Berlin
Wort und Antwort - Dominikanische Zeitschrift für Glauben und Gesellschaft, Schriftleitung Berlin
Thesis Title: Catholic-Shīʿī Encounters in Polemical Writings in 17th-Century-Iran and India
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Sabine Schmidtke
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About
After my studies in Islamic, Iranian and Comparative Religious Studies at Freie Universität in Berlin, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris and the Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas (IFEAD) (graduation “Magister Artium” in 2008), I am currently enrolled in a PhD in history of interreligious controversies between Shiite Muslims and Christian missionaries in 11th/17th century Safavid Iran.
My thesis concentrates on Persian treatises by Sayyed Aḥmad ʿAlavī ʿĀmelī (d. between 1054/1644 and 1060/1650), a Shiite scholar and member of the so-called “School of Isfahan”, and his theological and philosophical thinking towards Christianity.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Dominikanerkonvent St. Bonifaz
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| IM: | skype: dennishalft |









