Sabine Schmidtke is a German

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, and scholar of Islamic studies. She is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the

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in Princeton. 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 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 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 German Foreign Office. From 1997 to 1999 she was a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Bonn and did her Habilitation while there. From 1999 to 2014 she taught Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin 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

in Princeton (2008-2009), the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (

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) in

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(2010), Tel Aviv University (2011), and the Scaliger Institute in

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(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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidtke, Sabine 20th-century German historians 20th-century German women writers 21st-century German historians 21st-century German women writers Alumni of SOAS University of London Alumni of the University of Oxford Corresponding Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin German emigrants to England German emigrants to Israel German emigrants to the United States German women historians Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Study faculty Academic staff of Leiden University Living people Members of the American Philosophical Society German Islamic studies scholars Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Academic staff of the University of Bonn University of Pennsylvania faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Women scholars of Islam