Angelika Neuwirth
{{Short description|German academic of the Quran}}
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Angelika Neuwirth {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 4 November, 1943) is a German Islamic studies scholar and Professor of Qur’anic studies at the Free University of Berlin.
Qur’anic education
Born in Nienburg, Lower Saxony,{{cite web |title=Angelika Neuwirth | website=Munzinger Biographie | url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Angelika+Neuwirth/0/29834.html | language=de | access-date=1 December 2020}} she studied Islamic studies, Semitic studies and classical philology at the Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, and Munich.{{cite web|url=http://www.academia-net.org/alias/Profil/Prof-Dr-Angelika-Neuwirth/1133978|website=academia.net.org|title= Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth}}
Posts held
Neuwirth is also the director of the research project Corpus Coranicum.{{cite web | title=Arabic Studies Professor Angelika Neuwirth Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Yale | website=Freie Universität Berlin | date=1 December 2020 | url=https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2012/fup_12_146/index.html | access-date=1 December 2020}}[http://en.qantara.de/content/the-koran-as-a-text-from-late-antiquity-a-european-approach Qantara website], article by Stefan Weidner 6 May 2011 Between 1994 and 1999, she was the director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies in Beirut and Istanbul. She currently works as a professor in Freie University in Berlin and as a visiting professor at the University of Jordan in Amman, and her research focuses on the Qur'an, its interpretations, and modern Arabic literature in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Palestinian poetry and prose related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Awards
In 2011 she was named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[https://www.amacad.org/content/news/pressReleases.aspx?pr=133 American Academy of Arts and Sciences press release 4/19/2011] and in 2012 was granted an honorary doctorate from Yale University's Department of Religious Studies.[http://news.yale.edu/2012/05/21/yale-awards-nine-honorary-degrees-2012-graduation YaleNews May 21, 2012] In June 2013, the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung awarded her its Sigmund Freud Prize for her research on the Qur'an.{{cite web | title=Awards – Sigmund-Freud-Preis – Angelika Neuwirth | website=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung | url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/sigmund-freud-preis/angelika-neuwirth | language=de | access-date=1 December 2020}}{{cite press release|title=Leading Koran Scholar Angelika Neuwirth Awarded Prizes for Interreligious Dialogue and Scientific Prose |url=https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2013/fup_13_221/index.html|publisher=Freie Universität Berlin|date=July 31, 2013}} In July 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.{{cite web |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/record-number-academics-elected-british-academy/ |title=Record number of academics elected to British Academy |date=20 July 2018 |publisher=British Academy |accessdate=28 July 2020}}
Publications
- {{cite journal|last=Neuwirth|first=Angelika|title=Orientalism in Oriental Studies? Qur'anic Studies as a Case in Point|journal=Journal of Qur'anic Studies|year=2007|volume=9|issue=21|pages=115–127|jstor=25728259|doi=10.3366/e1465359108000119}}
- {{cite journal|last=Neuwirth|first=Angelika|title=Two Views of History and Human Future: Qur'anic and Biblical Renderings of Divine Promises|journal=Journal of Qur'anic Studies|year=2008|volume=10|issue=1|pages=1–20|jstor=25728268|doi=10.3366/e1465359109000217}}
- {{cite book|last1=Neuwirth|first1=Angelika|title=Der Koran als Text der Spätantike: Ein europäischer Zugang| date=2010|publisher=Insel Verlag|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-458-71026-4}} English translation: {{cite book|last1=Neuwirth|first1=Angelika|title=The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage|date=2019|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-992895-8|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-quran-and-late-antiquity-9780199928958?cc=gb&lang=en&#}}
- {{cite book|last1=Neuwirth|first1=Angelika|last2=Sinai|first2=Nicolai|last3=Marx|first3=Michael|title=The Quran in context: historical and literary investigations into the Quranic milieu|year=2010|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=978-90-04-17688-1|url=http://www.brill.com/qur-context-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Neuwirth|first=Angelika|title=Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text|year=2014|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-870164-4|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scripture-poetry-and-the-making-of-a-community-9780198701644?cc=it&lang=en&}}
- {{cite book |last1=Neuwirth |first1=Angelika |title=Der Koran. Handkommentar mit Übersetzung |date=2010–2017 |publisher=Insel Verlag |location=Berlin}} (The Qur'ān: A Hand-Commentary with German Translation.) Five volumes planned:
- {{cite book |last1=Neuwirth |first1=Angelika |title=Band 1: Frühmekkanische Suren. Poetische Prophetie. |date=2011 |publisher=Insel Verlag |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-458-75981-2}} (Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic Prophecy)
- {{cite book |last1=Neuwirth |first1=Angelika |title=Band 2/1: Frühmittelmekkanische Suren. Das neue Gottesvolk. |date=2017 |publisher=Insel Verlag |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-458-70039-5}} (Volume 2/1: Early Middle Meccan Suras. The New People of God.)
See also
References
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Category:German Islamic studies scholars
Category:History of Quran scholars
Category:Women scholars of Islam
Category:People from Nienburg, Lower Saxony
Category:Quranic studies scholars
Category:Literary interpreters of the Quran
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