brochure 2012 - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Prof. Sarah Stroumsa, The Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic
Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recipient of a Humboldt Research
Award (2011/12)18
Dr. Sophia Vasalou, PhD Cambridge 2006
Dr. Ronny Vollandt, DPhil Cambridge (UK) 2011, IRHT, Section Hébraïque,
CNRS Paris19
Zeus Wellnhofer, PhD candidate Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität
Berlin20
Eva-Maria Zeis, PhD candidate Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität
Berlin21
International and National Cooperations
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The team members of the Research Unit Intellectual History of the
Islamicate World have excellent working relations with a variety of academic
institutions and scholars in the Middle East, in Europe and the
US. In Turkey, long-standing relations have been established with scholars
working on related topics at Yıldız Technical University, Department
of Humanities and Social Sciences (Prof. M. Sait Özervarli) and at ISAM
Center for Islamic Studies and Marmara Unversity (Prof. Osman Gazi
Özgüdenli, Dr. Harun Anay22), all in Istanbul, and at Uludağ Üniversitesi
İlahiyat Fakültesi in Bursa (Dr. Kadir Gömbeyaz23, Dr. Veysel Kaya24).
In Yemen, the team members are working in close cooperation with
the Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī Cultural Foundation (IZbACF) / Muʾassasat al-
Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī al-thaqāfiyya, Ṣanʿāʾ.25 In Iran, the Dāʾirat al-maʿārif-i
buzurg-i islāmī26 and the Written Heritage Research Centre27, Tehran,
should be mentioned. In Uzbekistan, the Research Unit is cooperating
with the al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences
of Uzbekistan. Good working contacts with the King Faisal Centre
for Research and Islamic Studies28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the
Jumʿat al-Mājid Reseach Center in Dubai29 have been established over
the past years. The Research Unit is also closely collaborating with the
joint Israeli-Palestinian research project Intellectual encounters: Phi-
losophy and Science in the World of Medieval Islam30 in Jerusalem/al-
Quds, with Prof. Sara Sviri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the
Ben Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. At Tel Aviv University, the Research Unit
is collaborating with Dr. Camilla Adang31 and Prof. Meira Polliack32 on a
research project The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims.
The members of the Research Unit are also cooperating with the Institute
of Samaritan Studies, Holon, Israel (Binyamin Tsedaka).
In the West, the Research Unit is closely cooperating with the Institute of
Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal where Prof. Robert Wisnovsky
and Prof. Jamil Ragep have initiated “The Post-classical Islamic
Philosophy Database Initiative” (PIPDI),33 with Prof. Alexander Treiger34
of Dalhousie and his discussion group “Arabic Bible”, with Prof. Asad
Q. Ahmed of Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Prof. Ahmet
T. Karamustafa and Prof. Jon McGinnis of the University of Missouri,
who coordinate the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Graeco-Arabic Rationalism
in Islamic Traditionalism: The Post-Classical Period (1200-1900 CE)”, with
Prof. Mohammed Ali Amir-Moezzi,35 Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Paris, with Prof. Ayman Shehadeh, School of Oriental and African Studies,
London, with Prof. Peter Adamson, King’s College, London, and
Munich University, with Professor Ulrich Rudolph (Zürich) on the Ueberweg:
Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie (Islamische Philosophie),
with Prof. Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Madrid,36 with Prof. Khaled el-Rouayheb, Islamic Intellectual History,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University,37 with
Prof. David Hollenberg, University of Oregon,38 and Prof. Bernard Haykel
and Dr. David Magier, Princeton University and Princeton University Library
on “The Yemeni Manuscripts Digitization Initiative” (YMDI),39 and
with Boris Zaykovsky, Russian National Library, St. Petersburg.
Within Germany, the Research Unit is collaborating closely with the
recently founded Center for Islamic Theology (Zentrum für Islamische
Theologie), Tübingen, directed by Prof. Omar Hamdan, a former member
of the Research Unit (2010–11).40 The Research Unit is also closely
cooperating with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in a variety of research
projects and conferences.41
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18 http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~stroums/.
19 http://cnrs.academia.edu/RonnyVollandt
20 http://fu-berlin.academia.edu/ZeusWellnhofer.
21 http://fu-berlin.academia.edu/EvaMariaZeis.
22 http://www.isam.org.tr/; http://english.isam.org.tr/.
23 http://uludag.academia.edu/KadirG\%C3\%B6mbeyaz.
24 http://uludag.academia.edu/veyselkaya; http://ilahiyat.uludag.edu.tr/tr/akademikkadro/
kadro/408-veysel-kaya.html.
25 http://www.izbacf.org/.
26 http://www.cgie.org.ir/.
27 http://www.mirasmaktoob.ir/.
28 http://www.kfcris.com/.
29 http://www.almajidcenter.org/Arabic/Pages/default.aspx/.
30 http://www.intellectualencounters.org/.
31 http://telaviv.academia.edu/CamillaAdang; http://vimeo.com/38437580.
32 http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/vip/polliackm.htm.
33 http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/pipdi.html.
34 http://religiousstudies.dal.ca/Faculty%20and%20staff/Alexander_Treiger.php.
35 http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/annuaire-de-la-recherche/mamirmoezzi.html.
36 http://csic.academia.edu/maribelfierro.
37 http://tinyurl.com/nelc-fas-harvard-edu-rouayheb.
38 http://ymdi.uoregon.edu/.
39 http://ymdi.uoregon.edu/.
40 http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/einrichtungen/verwaltung-dezernate/i-forschung-strategie-undrecht/zentrum-fuer-islamische-theologie.html.
41 See, e.g., http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/nc/die-staatsbibliothek/ausstellungen-undveranstaltungen/detail/article/2012-01-12-5714/.
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