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Gudrun Krämer (born 1953) is a German scholar of Islamic history and co-editor of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.Award for Islamic Studies Scholar at Freie Universität
at the official website of the Free University of Berlin. Aug 05, 2010.
at the official website of the Free University of Berlin. Nov 08, 2010. She is professor of Islamic studies, Chair of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the

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and a member of the

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. Her expertise is in topics related to modern Islamic history and in Islam, democracy, and modernity.

Life

Kramer was born in

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in 1953. She earned her doctorate from the

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in 1982, with her dissertation focusing on the

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. She spent some time as a researcher for the

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and a lecturer at the

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Work

Kramer is noted as an analyst of Islamism from both a theological and textual standpoint, examining both the theoretical and practical implications of political Islam.Mohamed Daadaoui, ''Rituals of Power and the Islamist Challenge: Maintaining the Makhzen in Morocco'', pg. 173. Ann Arbor:

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, 2008. In 2010, she was the first Islamic studies scholar to earn the International Research Prize from the Gerda Henkel Foundation due to the influence of her historical and cultural research on Muslims and its potential to explain current events.

English

* ''The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914-1952'',

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1989 * ''A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest until the Creation of the State of Israel'', Princeton University Press, 2008 * ''Hasan al-Banna'',

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Living people German Islamic studies scholars Free University of Berlin faculty 1953 births {{Germany-academic-bio-stub