Gudrun Krämer (born 1953) is a German scholar of Islamic history and co-editor of the third edition of the

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.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 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 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 History of the Jews in Egypt. She spent some time as a researcher for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and a lecturer at the

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Work

Kramer is noted as an analyst of

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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.

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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'', I.B. Tauris 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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, 2010

French

* Responsabilité, égalité, pluralisme. Réflexions sur quelques notions-clés d'un ordre islamique moderne, Casablanca 2000

German

* Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse, Nomos, 1986 * Gottes Staat als Republik: Reflexionen zeitgenössischer Muslime zu Islam, Menschenrechten und Demokratie, Nomos, 2000 * Geschichte Palästinas - Von der Osmanischen Eroberung bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2002 * Geschichte des Islam, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2005 * Demokratie im Islam: Der Kampf für Toleranz und Freiheit in der arabischen Welt, C.H. Beck, 2011

Spanish

* Historia de Palestina. Desde la conquista otomana hasta la fundación del Estado de Israel, Siglo XXI, 2006

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kramer, Gudrun Living people German Islamic studies scholars Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin 1953 births