Georges Tamer#
| Membership Number: | 6466 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.orientalistik.phil.fau.de/https://www.bafid.fau.de/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2007 - 2012 Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Ohio State University
- 2006 - 2007 Chair of Arabic Studies, Free University Berlin
- 2001 - 2006 Lecturer of Arabic, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Judeo-Arabic thought
- Philosophy in the Islamic world
- Jewish-Christian-Islamic discourses
- Christian-Arabic thought
- Hermeneutics of the Qur’ān
- Arab-Islamic history of Ideas
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2012 - 2013 Marie Curie Fellowship (Senior Researcher) of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
- 2014 - 2015 Research Fellow of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
