Aziz AL-AZMEH University Professor, Department of History, and Director, Center for Religious Studies, CEU - Central European University, Budapest

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1971	License-ès-Lettres, Philosophy and Sociology, University of Alexandria / Beirut Arab University
1973	Magister Artium, Philosophy with Islamic Studies and Political Science, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen
1977	Doctor of Philosophy, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
1985-1996	Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
1993-1994	Nuffield Foundation Fellow, Social Sciences
1994-1995	Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin
1995	Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
1996-1998	Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin
1998	Fellow, Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, Uppsala
1999	Visiting Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York
	Directeur de Recherches Associé (Bourse Fernand Braudel), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
2000	Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio
	Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
	Professor at the Mediterranean Studies doctoral summer school, Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence
2000-2002	Zayed Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of History, American University of Beirut
2001	Directeur de Recherches Associé (Bourse Fernand Braudel), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
	Sultan Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2002	Cleveland Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University of Cairo
2002-2004	Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humanities Center, Central European University, Budapest
2004-2007	Professor, Department of Medieval Studies, CEU - Central European University, Budapest
2005	Fellow, Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study)
	Professor and Course Co-Director, summer university course on Bookish Traditions: The Authority of the Book in Scripturalist Religions, CEU - Central European University, Budapest
2007-2013	University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, CEU - Central European University, Budapest
2010-2011	Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg - Dynamics in the History of Religions, Bochum
2012-2013	Distinguished Visiting Professor, Paris School of Public Affairs/Institut d Etudes Politiques
2013	University Professor, Department of History, CEU - Central European University, Budapest; Director, Center for Religious Studies, CEU - Central European University, Budapest
2015	Distinguished Visiting Professor, Paris School of Public Affairs/Institut d Etudes Politiques

Mitgliedschaften

Member of the Advisory Council, UNDP Arab Human Development Reports

Publikationen

The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. xxiii, 654
Islams and Modernitires, 3rd. Ed. London, Verso, 2009; German tralslation of the first edition as Die Islamisierung des Islams, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 1996.
Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities, London, I. B. Tauris, 1996.
with Effie Fokas, E.(eds.): Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity, Influence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 223; Arabic translation as al-Islam fi Uruppa, tr. A. Shimi, Cairo, National Council for Translation, 2011

Auszeichnungen

An international conference was held at the Central European University, Budapest, to mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of my book "Islams and Modernities", 2005