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Angelika Neuwirth

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Angelika Neuwirth

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1943-11-04 （Nienburg, Lower Saxony, Germany）
Nationality
Germany
Languages
German, English
Residence History
Nienburg (birthplace) → Berlin (base) → Beirut (worked) → Istanbul (worked) → Amman (visiting)

Career

Occupations
Professor, Islamic studies scholar, Academic
Active Years
1970-
Affiliations
Free University of Berlin, German Institute of Oriental Studies (Beirut/Istanbul), University of Jordan (visiting professor), Corpus Coranicum (research project director)
Memberships
British Academy (Fellow), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Honorary Member), Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Influenced
Nicolai Sinai (doctoral student)

Education

Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, Munich
Country: Multiple
Studied Islamic studies, Semitic studies and classical philology

Awards

Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Result: 授与
Honorary Doctorate (Yale University)
2012
Organization: Yale University, Department of Religious Studies
Result: 授与
Sigmund Freud Prize
2013
Organization: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result: 授与
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
2018
Organization: British Academy
Result: 選出

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage

2010 Scholarly monograph (Qur'anic studies)

A scholarly study situating the Qur'an within Late Antiquity and arguing for shared heritage with Jewish and Christian textual traditions.

Qur'anic studiesLate Antiquityintertextualitycomparative religion
Translations
  • English translation: The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (2019)

Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text

2014 Scholarly monograph (literary approach)

Reads the Qur'an as a literary text and examines the relationship between scripture, poetry, and community formation.

literary readingcommunity formationpoetics

The Quran in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Quranic Milieu

2010 Edited volume (academic essays)

An edited volume offering historical and literary investigations into the Qur'anic milieu (co-edited).

historical contextliterary contextinterdisciplinary research

Bibliography

  • The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (2019 translation)
  • Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community (2014)
  • The Quran in Context (co-ed., 2010)
  • Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic Prophecy (2011)
  • Volume 2.1: Early Middle Meccan Suras. The New People of God (2017)

Translations of Works

  • Der Koran als Text der Spätantike → The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (English translation, 2019)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
interdisciplinary and comparative approachphilological and poetic analysisrigorous commentary and textual criticism
Recurring Motifs
Qur'an and Late Antiquity connectionsliterary readings of scriptureintertextual relations

Legacy

Angelika Neuwirth is an internationally prominent Qur'anic studies scholar whose reevaluation of the Qur'an within Late Antiquity has had significant impact. She is recognized for directing the Corpus Coranicum project and advancing literary readings and scholarly resources.

Academic Societies

  • Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
  • British Academy (Fellow)
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Honorary Member)

Trivia

  • Born 4 November 1943 (Nienburg).
  • Director of the Corpus Coranicum research project.
  • Served as director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies in Beirut and Istanbul between 1994 and 1999.