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EuARe 2023 Keynote
An Islamic Approach to Islamic Studies? Muslim Faith Commitment in the European
Orientalist Sphere
Prof. Lejla Demiri | Thursday 22 June
Biography:
Lejla Demiri holds the Chair in Islamic Doctrine at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008) and later held post-doctoral fellowships at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (2007-10), and the Free University of Berlin (2010-12). Her research interests include the history of Islamic theology, Islam and religious pluralism, Christian-Muslim theological interactions, Ottoman intellectual history, and Islamic manuscripts. She has published extensively on theological and inter-faith matters, being the author of Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo (Brill, 2013) and co-editor of The Future of Interfaith Dialogue (with Yazid Said; Cambridge University Press, 2018), Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology (with Samuela Pagani; Mohr Siebeck, 2019), and Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective (with Christoph Schwöbel et al.; Mohr Siebeck, 2022). She currently serves as Section Editor for Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (1500-1900) (Brill, 2012-present), co-Editor of Sapientia Islamica: Studies in Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism (Mohr Siebeck, 2018-present), and Senior Editor (Islam) of the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (2019-present).