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Sabine Schmidtke Linking Multiple Perspectives: Textual Approaches to the Intellectual History of the Islamic World (30 June–1 July 2012) The seminar “Linking Multiple Perspectives: Textual Approaches to the Intell... more
Faculty Member, Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Institut für Islamwissenschaft
Director of Research Unit
Institut für Islamwissenschaft
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Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World at Freie Universität Berlin. She has a BA (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986), an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (1987), and a D. Phil. from the University of Oxford (1990). She did her Habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn (1990). From 1991 to 1999 she was a diplomat at the German Foreign Office. After teaching Islamic Studies in Bonn (1997-1999) and Berlin (1999-2001), she was offered the Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna (2002), which she declined in favour of a professorship in Berlin. She held fellowships at the Institutes of Advanced Study in Princeton (2008-2009), Jerusalem (2002, 2003; 2005-2006) and Tel Aviv (2011), the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadelphia (2010) and the Scaliger Institute in Leiden (together with C. Adang, 2007) and is the recipient of an 1,86 million Euro Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2008-2013), as well as various other grants from the Henkel Foundation (2006-2007, 2008), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2005-2007, 2010-2011), the Einstein Foundation Berlin (2011-2015), the DFG together with the NEH (2010-2013), the German Foreign Office (2010) and others. She has been coordinating a number of international research groups and convened a number of international conferences in Berlin, Jerusalem, Istanbul and Madrid.
For information on the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, see the booklet to be found in the section [Teaching Documents]
For a description of the European Research Council (ERC) project, see "Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam", see also "Forschen gegen das Vergessen: Zeugnisse eines aufgeklärten Islam," Ideen, täglich. Wissenschaft in Berlin, Berlin: Nicolai, 2010, pp. 40-53 [see Teaching Documents]
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