Prof. Dr. Rasha Abdel Rahman
Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology
Prof. Sabine Schmidtke
Nominated by
- European Research Council (ERC)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- AcademiaNet member since 12.12.2011
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Further professional affiliations
Laboratoire d'études sur les Monothéismes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Social sciences, journalism and information
Field
Social and behavioural sciences
Area of specialisation
Islamic Studies
Research interests
Bible in Arabic, Historical Theology, Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire, Islamic Intellectual History, Islamic studies, Religions, Jewish kalam, Kalam (Islamic Theology), Islamic Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Christian kalam, Interreligious Polemics, Abrahamic Religions, Cairo Genizah, Medieval Islam, Islamic Studies, Early Modern Polemics, Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire, Ibn Qutayba, History of Science, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Zaydites, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Mutazilite Thought, Orthodox Christianity, Bible in Islam; Arabic Bible; Islam and the Bible; Biqai; Tafsir and Bible; Muslims and Bible; Tahrif; Qur'an and Bible, History of Oriental studies, Eduard Glaser, Ibn Hazm, Zahirism, Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i, Manuscript Studies, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Distinctions and Awards
Dahlem Research School (DRS) Award for Excellent Supervision, 2011
Prize for Scholarly Achievement in the Study of Twelver Shi'ism Conferred by the Written Heritage Research Centre, Tehran, 2006
The World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran (for the book: Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts. Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abi Gumhur al-Ahsa'i, Leiden 2000.), 2002
Languages
Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Persian
Doctorate
- 1989
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 1999
Short CV/Education and training
- Since 2014Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
- Since 2013Associate member, Laboratoire d'études sur les Monothéismes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
- Since 2011Director, Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2006Directeur d'études invité, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris ("Les ouvrages islamiques de polémique contre de judaïsme")
- Since 2002Professor of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2002Chair in Islamic Studies, University of Vienna (declined)
- 1999 – 2001Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1997 – 1999Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
- 1991 – 1999Career Diplomat, German Foreign Office
Selected publications
Selected projects
Grants
Carnegie Corporation Grant (Grant Number G-16-53663) "The Shii Studies Research Project", 2016 – 2019
DIP ("Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation") Research Grant (DFG): "Biblia Arabica: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims" (with Camilla Adang and Meira Polliack, Tel Aviv University), 2013 – 2017
Proof of Concept Grant, European Research Council ("Weaving the humanities into the web and the web into the humanities. Preserving the cultural heritage of Yemen by creating a universally accessible virtual library of manuscripts" [HumanWeb]), 2012 – 2013
Grant "Interne Forschungsförderung 2012", Freie Universität Berlin, 2012 – 2013
Grant, Einstein Foundation Berlin, "New Frontiers in Islamic Studies: A series of five German-Israeli summer schools on selected topics of pre-modern Islamic studies" (in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2011 – 2015
Research Grant, DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: "Enriching Digital Collections" (The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI), with Princeton University), 2010 – 2013
Research Grant, Fritz Thyssen Foundation ("Jüdische und muslimischerationale Theologie im islamischen Mittelalter: Erstellung einer kritischen Edition des Kitāb al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥī d wa-l-ʿadl muʿtazilitischen AutorsʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī (st. 1025) – die zayditische und die jüdisch-käraische Fassung am Beispiel der Bände 9, 11, 12")
Research Grant, German Foreign Office (Kulturerhalt-Programm des Auswärtigen Amts) ("Preserving Yemen's Cultural Heritage: The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Project (YMDP)"), 2010
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Research Grant ("Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam"), 2008 – 2013
Research grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation ("Critical Edition of Ṣāḥib b.ʿAbbād’s kalām writings"), 2008
Research grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation ("Interreligious Polemics in the Ottoman Empire and pre-modern Iran"), 2006 – 2007
Research grant, Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation ("The Muʿtazilite Manuscripts Project"), 2005 – 2007
Research grant, German-Israel Foundation (GIF) ("Study of Ibn Kammuna"), 2003 – 2006
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
Member of the American Philosophical Society, since 2017
Media coverage
http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2014/schmidtke-appt
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