Sabine Schmidtke is a German

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, and

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. She is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the

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. Schmidtke was elected Member to the

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in 2017. She was appointed Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Education and career

Schmidtke earned an undergraduate degree ('' summa cum laude'') from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986 and an M.A. from the

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in 1987. She got her Ph.D. from the

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in 1990. From 1991 to 1999 she was a diplomat in the

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. From 1997 to 1999 she was a lecturer in

at the

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and did her Habilitation while there. From 1999 to 2014 she taught Islamic Studies at the

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where she was a Founding Director of the Department of "Intellectual History of the Islamic World". She also held fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002, 2003; 2005-2006), the

(2008-2009), the

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(

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) in

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(2010),

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

(2011), and the Scaliger Institute in Leiden University (2013). In July 2014 she became Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.Historian of Islamic Thought Sabine Schmidtke Appointed to Faculty at Institute for Advanced Study
July 1, 2014

Bibliography

* ''Die Bibel in den Augen muslimischer Gelehrter: mit einem Geleitwort von Martin Grötschel'', Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamate World: Freie Universität Berlin, 2013, * ''The Theology of al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī'' K. Schwarz, Berlin, 1991, *

References

External links

Home page of Sabine Schmidtke at The Institute for Advanced Study

Curriculum vitae of Sabine Schmidtke at the Institute for Advanced Study
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